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PERM jobs in Newtown, PA

Decisions
2,216
Approved
98.9%
Median certified wage
$103,563
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  • withdrawn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Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn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 65 2 3
FY2017 37 5 1
FY2018 366 3 4
FY2019 233 8 12
FY2020 241 4 3
FY2021 393 2 0
FY2022 157 0 0
FY2023 118 0 2
FY2024 227 0 0
FY2025 197 1 1
FY2026 131 0 0

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Worker's education

  • Master's 810
  • Bachelor's 762
  • None 258
  • Doctorate 13
  • Other 2
  • Associate's 2
  • High School 1

Visa held when filed

  • L-1 1,187
  • H-1B 508
  • TN 30
  • F-1 26
  • NOT IN USA 20
  • B-2 4
  • L-2 3
  • O-1 3
  • E-3 3
  • H-4 3

H-1B in Newtown, PA

531 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 506 (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. Chemists 28
  2. Software Developers 24
  3. Data Scientists 14
  4. Electrical Engineers 10
  5. Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 8
  6. Computer Systems Analysts 6
  7. Computer Programmers 4
  8. Manufacturing Engineers 3
  9. Sales Engineers 2
  10. Management Analysts 2

Where Newtown, PA sits

County
Bucks County
Census places Newtown borough in it
Metro area
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD
Metropolitan statistical area
DOL wage area
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD
The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27

102.6 is BEA's price level for the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 113.1. A salary here buys about 98% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.

What these jobs pay in Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD BLS May 2025, DOL wage year 2026-27
  • Software Developers
    219 PERM decisions
  • Computer Systems Analysts
    54 PERM decisions
  • Project Management Specialists
    50 PERM decisions
  • Chemists
    40 PERM decisions
  • Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers
    30 PERM decisions
  • Sales Engineers
    23 PERM decisions
$100k$150k
  • 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 $133,040 $91,874 $113,859 $135,824 $157,810
Computer Systems Analysts $105,050 $76,190 $93,309 $110,406 $127,525
Project Management Specialists $104,160 $72,072 $92,477 $112,882 $133,286
Chemists $95,440 $62,899 $82,888 $102,898 $122,886
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers $102,740 $69,950 $87,589 $105,206 $122,845
Sales Engineers $102,340 $72,613 $92,518 $112,403 $132,309

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

The jobs filed most in Newtown, 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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