Updated
PERM jobs in Matthews, NC
- Decisions
- 82
- Approved
- 91.0%
- Median certified wage
- $42,099
- Years
- FY2016 to FY2026
Year by year
- certified
- denied
- withdrawn
Fiscal years run October to September. More
Fiscal years run October to September. FY2016 to FY2023 come from DOL's closed-year files, and FY2024 on from its current ones. The newest year is partial until DOL publishes its fourth quarter.
Every year as a table
| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Withdrawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2016 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| FY2017 | 5 | 2 | 0 |
| FY2018 | 8 | 0 | 1 |
| FY2019 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2020 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| FY2021 | 4 | 2 | 0 |
| FY2022 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2023 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| FY2024 | 32 | 0 | 1 |
| FY2025 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2026 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
Top sponsors
- Transcontinental AC US LLC 26
- HARRIS TEETER 14
- NOVANT MEDICAL GROUP INC. 5
- DEN TEC LAB INC 3
- AMERICA TAX SERVICES INC 3
- Great Fortune Inc / Hibachi Buffet & Grill 3
- Socrates Academy Charter 2
- GREAT FORTUNE, INC. 2
- Pepero Enterprise, Inc 2
- Korean Baptist Church of Charlotte 2
Top occupations
- Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders 26
- Software Developers, Applications 8
- Cooks, Restaurant 7
- Physicians and Surgeons, All Other 5
- Clergy 3
- Dental Laboratory Technicians 3
- Database Administrators 3
- Electrical Engineers 2
- Financial Analysts 2
- Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education 2
Industries
- Plastics Packaging Film and Sheet (including Laminated) Manufacturing 26
- Supermarkets and Other Grocery Retailers (except Convenience Retailers) 13
- Religious Organizations 4
- General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 4
- Food Services and Drinking Places 4
- Full-Service Restaurants 3
- Dental Laboratories 3
- Elementary and Secondary Schools 2
- Other Specialty Food Retailers 2
- Accounting, Tax Preparation, Bookkeeping, and Payroll Services 2
Countries of citizenship
- India 22
- Colombia 13
- South Korea 12
- Brazil 9
- China 5
- Ecuador 2
- South Africa 2
- Greece 2
- Russia 1
- Taiwan 1
Worker's education
- High School 28
- Master's 22
- Bachelor's 8
- None 8
- Other 6
- Associate's 3
Visa held when filed
- H-1B 24
- F-1 11
- J-1 3
- E-2 2
- F-2 1
- J-2 1
- B-1 1
- B-2 1
H-1B in Matthews, NC
317 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 307 (97%). An LCA is the employer's wage attestation before an H-1B petition, so it counts positions offered. It doesn't count people hired.
Employers, certified LCAs since FY2024
Jobs, certified LCAs since FY2024
- Software Developers 52
- Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 13
- Data Scientists 5
- Database Administrators 5
- Information Security Analysts 4
- Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education 4
- Computer and Information Systems Managers 3
- Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 3
- Operations Research Analysts 2
- Computer Programmers 2
Where Matthews, NC sits
- County
- Mecklenburg County
- Census places Matthews town in it
- Metro area
- Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC
- Metropolitan statistical area
- DOL wage area
- Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC
- The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27
97.3 is BEA's price level for the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 97.6. A salary here buys about 103% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.
- Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders26 PERM decisions
- Cooks, Restaurant7 PERM decisions
- Clergy3 PERM decisions
- Dental Laboratory Technicians3 PERM decisions
- Electrical Engineers2 PERM decisions
- Financial Analysts2 PERM decisions
Each row has its own scale, marked at its ends: these jobs pay too differently to share one. The table compares them.
- middle half of pay (BLS)
- median
- 10th to 90th percentile
- DOL's Levels I to IV, left to right
| Job | BLS median | Level I | Level II | Level III | Level IV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders | $44,330 | $34,486 | $39,478 | $44,450 | $49,442 |
| Cooks, Restaurant | $37,030 | $29,203 | $33,134 | $37,066 | $40,997 |
| Clergy | $60,760 | $44,470 | $53,830 | $63,170 | $72,530 |
| Dental Laboratory Technicians | $47,080 | $36,878 | $44,720 | $52,582 | $60,424 |
| Electrical Engineers | $103,360 | $67,850 | $91,811 | $115,773 | $139,734 |
| Financial Analysts | $106,510 | $71,573 | $94,286 | $116,979 | $139,693 |
Any job in any area, and every wage year since 2021-22, in the wage-level tool.
The worksite city on each application, from DOL's decided cases since FY2016. Spellings of one city are pooled, and a city counts as one place per state.
Case data through Jun 30, 2026 · LCA disclosures through Jun 30, 2026 · Census places and metros through Jan 1, 2026 · BLS market pay through May 31, 2025 · DOL wage tables through Jul 1, 2026. How these figures are counted. Spotted an error? Tell us; every fix is dated in the corrections log.
The sources in full
Case data: DOL quarterly disclosure files (flag.dol.gov) · data through Jun 30, 2026 · quarterly
LCA disclosures: DOL quarterly LCA disclosure files (www.dol.gov) · data through Jun 30, 2026 · quarterly
Census places and metros: Census Bureau Gazetteer and metro delineation files (census.gov) · data through Jan 1, 2026 · yearly
BLS market pay: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (bls.gov) · data through May 31, 2025 · yearly, each spring
DOL wage tables: DOL OFLC wage data downloads (flag.dol.gov) · data through Jul 1, 2026 · yearly, each july
What each source includes
Case data: Decided PERM cases only. A case still waiting isn't in here, so counts and durations describe finished cases.
LCA disclosures: Certified and denied H-1B labor condition applications only, with the wage offered.
Census places and metros: Where each worksite city sits: its county, metro area and DOL wage area, matched to Census's place and county files. A city Census lists in no single place is left unmatched. This site doesn't guess it.
BLS market pay: Pay employers report for everyone in each job, from BLS's yearly survey (May of the year named). It's shown nationally, by state and by metro. It covers citizens and immigrants alike, and it isn't drawn from PERM offers.
DOL wage tables: The four prevailing wage levels DOL publishes for every job in every area, each wage year from 2021-22, as DOL's own tables print them. They're the floors an offer is held to. They don't show what anyone was paid.
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