Updated
PERM jobs in McLean, VA
- Decisions
- 2,794
- Approved
- 97.8%
- Median certified wage
- $112,924
- 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- withdrawn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| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Withdrawn |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 | 218 | 8 | 9 |
| FY2017 | 178 | 8 | 4 |
| FY2018 | 303 | 5 | 18 |
| FY2019 | 267 | 9 | 6 |
| FY2020 | 239 | 6 | 7 |
| FY2021 | 284 | 4 | 16 |
| FY2022 | 228 | 1 | 11 |
| FY2023 | 217 | 6 | 24 |
| FY2024 | 207 | 1 | 10 |
| FY2025 | 272 | 5 | 15 |
| FY2026 | 192 | 6 | 10 |
Top sponsors
Top occupations
Industries
- Credit Card Issuing 585
- Custom Computer Programming Services 403
- Secondary Market Financing 227
- Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services 224
- Offices of Certified Public Accountants 132
- Computer Systems Design Services 128
- Accounting, Tax Preparation, Bookkeeping, and Payroll Services 126
- Other Computer Related Services 79
- International, Secondary Market, and All Other Nondepository Credit Intermediation 66
- Computer Systems Design and Related Services 62
Countries of citizenship
Worker's education
- Master's 1,353
- Bachelor's 668
- Doctorate 119
- None 68
- High School 26
- Other 24
- Associate's 12
Visa held when filed
- H-1B 1,907
- F-1 126
- L-1 49
- NOT IN USA 18
- B-2 15
- TN 14
- G-4 13
- TPS 10
- J-1 8
- E-2 8
H-1B in McLean, VA
12,816 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 12,322 (96%). 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
- Capital One Services, LLC 806
- Capital One, National Association 663
- Hexaware Technologies, Inc. 337
- Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation 274
- Ernst & Young U.S. LLP 197
- TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITED 88
- Deloitte Consulting LLP 81
- cognizant-technology-solutions-us-corporation 77
- Deloitte & Touche LLP 67
- Deloitte Tax LLP 61
Jobs, certified LCAs since FY2024
- Software Developers 1,781
- Data Scientists 1,366
- Computer Programmers 434
- Accountants and Auditors 228
- Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 226
- Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 187
- Computer Systems Analysts 102
- Database Administrators 86
- Statisticians 81
- Computer and Information Systems Managers 70
Where McLean, VA sits
- County
- Fairfax County
- Census places McLean CDP in it
- Metro area
- Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV
- Metropolitan statistical area
- DOL wage area
- Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV
- The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27
108.9 is BEA's price level for the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 151.1. A salary here buys about 92% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.
- Statisticians279 PERM decisions
- Software Developers240 PERM decisions
- Accountants and Auditors208 PERM decisions
- Economists148 PERM decisions
- Operations Research Analysts113 PERM decisions
- Financial Quantitative Analysts68 PERM decisions
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Statisticians | $136,660 | $102,003 | $119,850 | $137,717 | $155,563 |
| Software Developers | $154,930 | $102,086 | $127,462 | $152,838 | $178,214 |
| Accountants and Auditors | $102,140 | $72,384 | $92,914 | $113,422 | $133,952 |
| Economists | $156,750 | $100,714 | $133,266 | $165,818 | $198,370 |
| Operations Research Analysts | $127,600 | $76,627 | $102,773 | $128,898 | $155,043 |
| Financial Quantitative Analysts | $120,580 | $72,987 | $97,115 | $121,222 | $145,350 |
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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