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PERM jobs in Mettawa, IL

Decisions
121
Approved
98.3%
Median certified wage
$125,000
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  • withdrawn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Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn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 11 0 0
FY2017 4 0 0
FY2018 7 1 1
FY2019 13 0 0
FY2020 9 0 0
FY2021 15 0 0
FY2022 22 0 1
FY2023 6 0 2
FY2024 8 0 0
FY2025 13 0 0
FY2026 7 1 0

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Industries

  • Pharmaceutical Preparation Manufacturing 76
  • Pharmaceutical and Medicine Manufacturing (NAICS 32541) 11
  • Boat Building 11
  • Commercial Banking 9
  • Pharmaceutical and Medicine Manufacturing (NAICS 3254) 5
  • Chemical Manufacturing 3
  • Ship and Boat Building 3
  • Medical Equipment and Supplies Manufacturing 3

Countries of citizenship

  • India 71
  • China 6
  • Colombia 4
  • Brazil 4
  • Egypt 3
  • Taiwan 2
  • Mexico 2
  • South Africa 1
  • Canada 1
  • Italy 1

Worker's education

  • Master's 58
  • Bachelor's 33
  • Other 4
  • Doctorate 3

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 85
  • L-1 13

H-1B in Mettawa, IL

906 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 869 (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.

Jobs, certified LCAs since FY2024

  1. Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 117
  2. Software Developers 41
  3. Data Scientists 37
  4. Management Analysts 18
  5. Search Marketing Strategists 18
  6. Data Warehousing Specialists 18
  7. Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 12
  8. Operations Research Analysts 5
  9. Database Administrators 5
  10. Marketing Managers 4

Where Mettawa, IL sits

County
Lake County
Census places Mettawa village in it
Metro area
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN
Metropolitan statistical area
DOL wage area
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN
The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27

103.6 is BEA's price level for the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 112.0. A salary here buys about 97% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.

What these jobs pay in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN BLS May 2025, DOL wage year 2026-27
  • Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists
    13 PERM decisions
  • Marketing Managers
    7 PERM decisions
  • Management Analysts
    7 PERM decisions
  • Statisticians
    7 PERM decisions
  • Data Scientists
    5 PERM decisions
  • Computer and Information Systems Managers
    5 PERM decisions
$50k$100k$150k$200k$250k
  • middle half of pay (BLS)
  • median
  • 10th to 90th percentile
  • DOL's Levels I to IV, left to right
Market pay and DOL wage levels for the jobs filed most here
Job BLS median Level I Level II Level III Level IV
Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists $80,400 $54,309 $72,238 $90,147 $108,077
Marketing Managers $165,340 $106,434 $139,568 $172,682 $205,816
Management Analysts $105,090 $67,475 $91,915 $116,334 $140,774
Statisticians $122,180 $88,358 $106,184 $124,010 $141,835
Data Scientists $107,640 $76,336 $97,490 $118,664 $139,818
Computer and Information Systems Managers $173,760 $124,842 $154,690 $184,517 $214,365

Any job in any area, and every wage year since 2021-22, in the wage-level tool.

The jobs filed most in Mettawa, IL: what employers in the metro report paying everyone in each, and DOL's four prevailing wage levels there. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics; DOL OFLC wage tables

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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Waiting on a PERM case?

  • When it'll likely be decided
  • An email when DOL moves it

It's on your ETA-9089 receipt. A case number looks like G-100-26125-868956.

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