Updated
PERM jobs in Morganton, NC
- Decisions
- 1,267
- Approved
- 93.3%
- Median certified wage
- $22,932
- 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- withdrawn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| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Withdrawn |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 | 253 | 28 | 70 |
| FY2017 | 107 | 3 | 14 |
| FY2018 | 128 | 0 | 1 |
| FY2019 | 39 | 12 | 0 |
| FY2020 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| FY2021 | 14 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2022 | 71 | 13 | 2 |
| FY2023 | 55 | 16 | 85 |
| FY2024 | 86 | 0 | 2 |
| FY2025 | 265 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2026 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Top sponsors
- Case Farms Processing, Inc 1,165
- MOLDED FIBER GLASS COMPANY NORTH CAROLINA 61
- R&J Investments of Eden LLC 29
- Continental Automotive Systems, Inc. 4
- Blue Ridge HealthCare Medical Group Inc. 2
- Road Shark Logistics LLC 1
- Seiren North America, LLC 1
- root vine 1
- Ferguson Copeland, LLC 1
- COLLEEN BENNETT 1
Top occupations
- Slaughterers and Meat Packers 718
- Butchers and Meat Cutters 336
- Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers 85
- Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal 61
- Fast Food and Counter Workers 29
- Industrial Production Managers 2
- Industrial Engineers 1
- Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive 1
- Mechatronics Engineers 1
- Cooks, Restaurant 1
Industries
- Poultry Processing 1,165
- All Other Plastics Product Manufacturing 61
- Limited-Service Restaurants 29
- Motor Vehicle Parts Manufacturing 4
- General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 2
- General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance, Truckload 1
- Nonwoven Fabric Mills 1
- Full-Service Restaurants 1
- Upholstered Household Furniture Manufacturing 1
Countries of citizenship
- China 376
- South Korea 324
- Vietnam 130
- Cambodia 42
- Brazil 18
- Iran 12
- Taiwan 9
- Hong Kong 8
- Pakistan 7
- Philippines 5
Worker's education
- None 968
- Bachelor's 3
- Other 2
- High School 1
Visa held when filed
- NOT IN USA 865
- F-1 74
- E-2 7
- F-2 6
- B-2 6
- H-1B 3
- J-2 3
- A1/A2 3
- TN 1
- VWT 1
H-1B in Morganton, NC
25 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 25 (100%). 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
- Hospitalists 3
- Mechanical Engineers 2
- Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education 2
- Medical and Health Services Managers 1
- Family Medicine Physicians 1
- Manufacturing Engineers 1
- Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products 1
- Statisticians 1
- Quality Control Systems Managers 1
Where Morganton, NC sits
- County
- Burke County
- Census places Morganton city in it
- Metro area
- Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC
- Metropolitan statistical area
- DOL wage area
- Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC
- The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27
88.5 is BEA's price level for the Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 59.6. A salary here buys about 113% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.
- Slaughterers and Meat Packers718 PERM decisions
- Butchers and Meat Cutters336 PERM decisions
- Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers85 PERM decisions
- Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal61 PERM decisions
- Fast Food and Counter Workers29 PERM decisions
- Industrial Production Managers2 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
| Job | BLS median | Level I | Level II | Level III | Level IV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Slaughterers and Meat Packers | — | $33,779 | $36,005 | $38,251 | $40,477 |
| Butchers and Meat Cutters | $38,370 | $31,845 | $36,026 | $40,186 | $44,366 |
| Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers | — | $33,259 | $35,110 | $36,941 | $38,792 |
| Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal | $38,370 | $32,094 | $36,462 | $40,851 | $45,219 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $27,580 | $22,110 | $25,168 | $28,205 | $31,262 |
| Industrial Production Managers | $124,290 | $81,952 | $106,766 | $131,560 | $156,374 |
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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