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PERM jobs in Middletown, NJ

Decisions
85
Approved
97.6%
Median certified wage
$133,089
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  • withdrawn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Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn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 7 0 0
FY2017 6 0 0
FY2018 10 0 0
FY2019 8 0 0
FY2020 4 0 0
FY2021 9 0 0
FY2022 8 1 0
FY2023 1 0 0
FY2024 8 0 0
FY2025 15 0 1
FY2026 6 1 0

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Top occupations

Industries

  • Satellite Telecommunications 30
  • Telecommunications (NAICS 51721) 11
  • Other Telecommunications 9
  • Specialty (except Psychiatric and Substance Abuse) Hospitals 8
  • Telecommunications (NAICS 517210) 7
  • Custom Computer Programming Services 3
  • Other Computer Related Services 3
  • Computer Systems Design and Related Services 3
  • Computer Systems Design Services 2
  • Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices 1

Countries of citizenship

  • India 49
  • China 3
  • Turkey 1
  • Israel 1
  • South Korea 1
  • Portugal 1
  • Mexico 1
  • Canada 1
  • Iran 1

Worker's education

  • Master's 34
  • Bachelor's 20
  • Doctorate 2
  • Associate's 2
  • None 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 54
  • L-1 2
  • F-1 1

H-1B in Middletown, NJ

1,535 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 1,458 (95%). 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. Software Developers 107
  2. Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 89
  3. Computer Systems Analysts 52
  4. Computer Programmers 39
  5. Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 36
  6. Computer Network Architects 32
  7. Network and Computer Systems Administrators 17
  8. Information Security Analysts 6
  9. Data Scientists 6
  10. Computer Network Support Specialists 6

Where Middletown, NJ sits

County
Monmouth County
Census places Middletown township in it
Metro area
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ
Metropolitan statistical area
DOL wage area
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ
The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27

112.6 is BEA's price level for the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 148.6. A salary here buys about 89% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.

What these jobs pay in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ BLS May 2025, DOL wage year 2026-27
  • Software Developers
    12 PERM decisions
  • Computer Systems Analysts
    6 PERM decisions
  • Computer Network Architects
    4 PERM decisions
  • Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists
    2 PERM decisions
$100k$150k$200k
  • 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
Software Developers $166,830 $109,845 $137,717 $165,589 $193,461
Computer Systems Analysts $128,340 $83,616 $106,267 $128,939 $151,590
Computer Network Architects $163,010 $109,886 $135,512 $161,117 $186,742
Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists $100,520 $64,834 $85,467 $106,122 $126,755

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

The jobs filed most in Middletown, NJ: 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.

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