Updated
PERM jobs in Newark, NJ
- Decisions
- 1,164
- Approved
- 95.5%
- Median certified wage
- $104,647
- 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- withdrawn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| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Withdrawn |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 | 73 | 7 | 3 |
| FY2017 | 63 | 17 | 3 |
| FY2018 | 108 | 9 | 1 |
| FY2019 | 91 | 3 | 3 |
| FY2020 | 86 | 6 | 1 |
| FY2021 | 98 | 1 | 1 |
| FY2022 | 107 | 1 | 2 |
| FY2023 | 107 | 2 | 1 |
| FY2024 | 137 | 1 | 5 |
| FY2025 | 86 | 1 | 3 |
| FY2026 | 128 | 3 | 6 |
Top sponsors
- AUDIBLE, INC. 326
- The Prudential Insurance Company of America 161
- BROADRIDGE FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS, INC. 90
- Jersey Pizza Inc. 42
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 33
- STANDARD CHARTERED BANK 21
- McKinsey & Company, Inc. United States 20
- PANASONIC CORPORATION OF NORTH AMERICA 18
- New Jersey Institute of Technology 16
- AMAZON WEB SERVICES, INC. 15
Top occupations
- Software Developers, Systems Software 165
- Software Developers, Applications 137
- Software Developers 68
- Actuaries 51
- Computer Occupations, All Other 42
- Combined Food Preparation and Serving Workers, Including Fast Food 42
- Statisticians 29
- Computer Systems Analysts 28
- Civil Engineers 24
- Management Analysts 23
Industries
- Electronic Shopping and Mail-Order Houses 295
- Direct Life Insurance Carriers 112
- Financial Transactions Processing, Reserve, and Clearinghouse Activities 89
- Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools 53
- Insurance Agencies and Brokerages 50
- Limited-Service Restaurants 45
- Engineering Services 31
- Book Publishers 24
- Custom Computer Programming Services 23
- Commercial Banking 21
Countries of citizenship
Worker's education
- Master's 413
- Bachelor's 270
- None 141
- Doctorate 36
- Other 26
- High School 24
- Associate's 6
Visa held when filed
- H-1B 609
- F-1 77
- L-1 57
- B-2 19
- EWI 16
- NOT IN USA 15
- B-1 7
- TN 6
- H-4 5
- PAROLEE 4
H-1B in Newark, NJ
6,207 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 5,934 (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.
Employers, certified LCAs since FY2024
- AUDIBLE, INC. 330
- The Prudential Insurance Company of America 267
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 172
- IBM Corporation 146
- cognizant-technology-solutions-us-corporation 144
- TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITED 123
- BROADRIDGE FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS, INC. 107
- New Jersey Institute of Technology 87
- McKinsey & Company, Inc., United States 48
- COMPUNNEL SOFTWARE GROUP, INC 28
Jobs, certified LCAs since FY2024
- Software Developers 635
- Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 353
- Data Scientists 166
- Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 113
- Computer Programmers 99
- Computer Systems Analysts 98
- Molecular and Cellular Biologists 46
- Financial and Investment Analysts 41
- Computer and Information Systems Managers 39
- Management Analysts 37
Where Newark, NJ sits
- County
- Essex County
- Census places Newark city 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.
- Software Developers68 PERM decisions
- Actuaries51 PERM decisions
- Statisticians29 PERM decisions
- Civil Engineers24 PERM decisions
- Management Analysts23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Software Developers | $166,830 | $109,845 | $137,717 | $165,589 | $193,461 |
| Actuaries | $161,460 | $100,610 | $133,474 | $166,338 | $199,202 |
| Statisticians | $137,510 | $88,421 | $116,958 | $145,475 | $174,013 |
| Civil Engineers | $107,330 | $82,014 | $102,086 | $122,138 | $142,210 |
| Management Analysts | $124,390 | $76,648 | $104,978 | $133,307 | $161,637 |
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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