Updated
PERM jobs in Menlo Park, CA
- Decisions
- 8,663
- Approved
- 97.6%
- Median certified wage
- $145,597
- 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- withdrawn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| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Withdrawn |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 | 717 | 7 | 11 |
| FY2017 | 668 | 5 | 19 |
| FY2018 | 1,275 | 2 | 14 |
| FY2019 | 1,161 | 1 | 12 |
| FY2020 | 1,189 | 1 | 11 |
| FY2021 | 221 | 3 | 68 |
| FY2022 | 220 | 7 | 365 |
| FY2023 | 1,200 | 74 | 351 |
| FY2024 | 440 | 81 | 22 |
| FY2025 | 319 | 1 | 17 |
| FY2026 | 173 | 2 | 6 |
Top sponsors
- FACEBOOK, INC. 6,569
- Meta Platforms, Inc. 704
- Robinhood Markets, Inc. 321
- WHATSAPP LLC 101
- ATIEVA USA, INC. 33
- E*TRADE FINANCIAL CORPORATION 32
- GRAIL, LLC 29
- Cornerstone Research, Inc. 27
- Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc. 21
- Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. 21
Top occupations
- Software Developers, Systems Software 3,137
- Software Developers, Applications 1,881
- Statisticians 587
- Software Developers 538
- Computer and Information Systems Managers 383
- Computer Occupations, All Other 220
- Computer Systems Analysts 207
- Marketing Managers 151
- Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists 103
- Computer and Information Research Scientists 83
Industries
- Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (NAICS 518112) 4,069
- Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals 2,476
- Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (NAICS 518210) 700
- Securities Brokerage 297
- Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services (NAICS 519290) 113
- Custom Computer Programming Services 87
- Software Publishers 63
- Investment Banking and Securities Dealing 52
- Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services (NAICS 51929) 49
- Engineering Services 46
Countries of citizenship
- China 3,302
- India 2,778
- Canada 442
- Taiwan 143
- United Kingdom 80
- Australia 79
- Brazil 77
- Russia 76
- South Korea 73
- Mexico 69
Worker's education
- Master's 5,512
- Bachelor's 1,887
- Doctorate 556
- None 131
- Other 25
- High School 11
- Associate's 2
Visa held when filed
- H-1B 6,548
- F-1 833
- L-1 353
- TN 148
- E-3 52
- O-1 42
- NOT IN USA 23
- E-2 20
- L-2 17
- H-4 15
H-1B in Menlo Park, CA
23,224 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 22,473 (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 5,321
- Data Scientists 883
- Computer and Information Research Scientists 721
- Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 502
- Computer and Information Systems Managers 312
- Data Warehousing Specialists 202
- Financial and Investment Analysts 180
- Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 148
- Operations Research Analysts 123
- Physicists 99
Where Menlo Park, CA sits
- County
- San Mateo County
- Census places Menlo Park city in it
- Metro area
- San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA
- Metropolitan statistical area
- DOL wage area
- San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA
- The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27
115.6 is BEA's price level for the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 194.7. A salary here buys about 86% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.
- Statisticians587 PERM decisions
- Software Developers538 PERM decisions
- Computer and Information Systems Managers383 PERM decisions
- Marketing Managers151 PERM decisions
- Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists103 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 | — | $81,869 | $111,176 | $140,483 | $169,790 |
| Software Developers | $186,640 | $137,093 | $165,131 | $193,149 | $221,187 |
| Computer and Information Systems Managers | $232,890 | $167,565 | $208,104 | $248,643 | $289,182 |
| Marketing Managers | $220,480 | $148,387 | $191,942 | $235,477 | $279,032 |
| Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists | $123,250 | $69,576 | $100,027 | $130,458 | $160,909 |
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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