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PERM jobs in Moon Township, PA

Decisions
2,089
Approved
98.7%
Median certified wage
$93,038
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  • withdrawn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Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn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 252 1 2
FY2017 206 1 0
FY2018 315 1 7
FY2019 199 7 1
FY2020 241 2 1
FY2021 8 1 10
FY2022 263 11 20
FY2023 241 3 3
FY2024 71 0 4
FY2025 108 0 2
FY2026 106 0 2

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Top occupations

Industries

  • Custom Computer Programming Services 1,922
  • Other Activities Related to Credit Intermediation 34
  • Computer Systems Design and Related Services 32
  • Couriers and Express Delivery Services 16
  • Landscaping Services (NAICS 561730) 15
  • Nursery, Garden Center, and Farm Supply Stores 13
  • Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools 11
  • Engineering Services 7
  • Landscaping Services (NAICS 56173) 6
  • All Other Miscellaneous General Purpose Machinery Manufacturing 5

Countries of citizenship

  • India 1,782
  • Mexico 19
  • China 13
  • Nepal 8
  • Bangladesh 6
  • Pakistan 5
  • Canada 4
  • Philippines 3
  • South Africa 3
  • Turkey 2

Worker's education

  • Bachelor's 1,293
  • Master's 528
  • None 19
  • Doctorate 10
  • Other 4
  • High School 3
  • Associate's 2

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 1,783
  • F-1 18
  • L-1 6
  • NOT IN USA 5
  • H-4 5
  • H-2B 5
  • H-2A 4
  • TN 3
  • PAROLEE 2
  • B-2 1

H-1B in Moon Township, PA

581 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 569 (98%). 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 48
  2. Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 31
  3. Data Scientists 20
  4. Computer Programmers 17
  5. Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 12
  6. Civil Engineers 11
  7. Electrical Engineers 11
  8. Computer Systems Analysts 8
  9. Mechanical Engineers 6
  10. Manufacturing Engineers 6

Where Moon Township, PA sits

County
Allegheny County
Census places Moon township in it
Metro area
Pittsburgh, PA
Metropolitan statistical area
DOL wage area
Pittsburgh, PA
The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27

94.7 is BEA's price level for the Pittsburgh, PA metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 72.0. A salary here buys about 106% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.

What these jobs pay in Pittsburgh, PA BLS May 2025, DOL wage year 2026-27
  • Software Developers
    221 PERM decisions
  • Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers
    21 PERM decisions
  • Farm Equipment Mechanics and Service Technicians
    9 PERM decisions
  • Civil Engineers
    5 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
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 $124,500 $81,702 $103,958 $126,194 $148,450
Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers $37,690 $32,032 $35,963 $39,874 $43,805
Farm Equipment Mechanics and Service Technicians $49,120 $38,896 $44,200 $49,504 $54,808
Civil Engineers $100,680 $70,512 $86,528 $102,565 $118,581

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

The jobs filed most in Moon Township, PA: 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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