Updated
PERM jobs in Oklahoma City, OK
- Decisions
- 769
- Approved
- 93.5%
- Median certified wage
- $80,000
- 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- withdrawn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| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Withdrawn |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 | 93 | 7 | 5 |
| FY2017 | 58 | 9 | 1 |
| FY2018 | 60 | 6 | 1 |
| FY2019 | 64 | 1 | 3 |
| FY2020 | 56 | 4 | 7 |
| FY2021 | 59 | 4 | 0 |
| FY2022 | 67 | 6 | 2 |
| FY2023 | 30 | 2 | 7 |
| FY2024 | 54 | 1 | 4 |
| FY2025 | 85 | 6 | 4 |
| FY2026 | 54 | 1 | 8 |
Top sponsors
- Paycom Payroll LLC 116
- University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center 87
- REDBUD HOME CARE LLC 29
- INTEGRIS HEALTH, INC. 25
- DOVE SCHOOLS, INC 18
- Oklahoma Blood Institute 16
- TLC Florist & Greenhouses, INC 12
- Objectstream, Inc. 12
- Lynn Chleborad Racing Stable 11
- SS Concrete Construction 10
Top occupations
- Software Developers, Applications 89
- Physicians and Surgeons, All Other 54
- Computer Occupations, All Other 48
- Software Developers 30
- Home Health Aides 29
- Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education 24
- Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers 22
- Computer Systems Analysts 18
- Civil Engineers 16
- Accountants and Auditors 16
Industries
- Payroll Services 115
- Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools 93
- Elementary and Secondary Schools 31
- General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 29
- Home Health Care Services 29
- Custom Computer Programming Services 25
- Landscaping Services 14
- Blood and Organ Banks 14
- Engineering Services 13
- Oil and Gas Extraction 13
Countries of citizenship
- India 218
- Mexico 39
- Philippines 33
- China 29
- Pakistan 28
- Canada 21
- South Korea 21
- Turkey 19
- Nepal 16
- Brazil 11
Worker's education
- Master's 237
- Bachelor's 137
- Other 105
- None 86
- Doctorate 17
- High School 13
- Associate's 5
Visa held when filed
- H-1B 408
- F-1 38
- L-1 11
- NOT IN USA 9
- B-2 8
- H-2B 7
- J-1 7
- TN 4
- TPS 4
- F-2 3
H-1B in Oklahoma City, OK
3,212 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 2,984 (93%). 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
- Software Developers 198
- Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists 114
- Hospitalists 107
- Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 74
- Data Scientists 57
- Computer Systems Analysts 51
- Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary 51
- Mechanical Engineers 33
- Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education 31
- Computer and Information Systems Managers 30
Where Oklahoma City, OK sits
- Counties
- Canadian, Cleveland, Oklahoma and Pottawatomie counties
- Census places Oklahoma City city in all four
- Metro area
- Oklahoma City, OK
- Metropolitan statistical area
- DOL wage area
- Oklahoma City, OK
- For Oklahoma County, at the city's center. Its counties sit in two wage areas
90.4 is BEA's price level for the Oklahoma City, OK metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 73.9. A salary here buys about 111% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.
- Software Developers30 PERM decisions
- Home Health Aides29 PERM decisions
- Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education24 PERM decisions
- Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers22 PERM decisions
- Civil Engineers16 PERM decisions
- Accountants and Auditors16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Software Developers | $122,390 | $81,141 | $100,818 | $120,474 | $140,150 |
| Home Health Aides | — | $24,315 | $26,998 | $29,661 | $32,344 |
| Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education | $50,650 | $46,030 | $52,530 | $59,030 | $65,530 |
| Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers | $36,760 | $29,682 | $33,530 | $37,357 | $41,205 |
| Civil Engineers | $98,960 | $71,781 | $89,856 | $107,952 | $126,027 |
| Accountants and Auditors | $77,280 | $51,875 | $69,243 | $86,632 | $104,000 |
Any job in any area, and every wage year since 2021-22, in the wage-level tool.
The jobs filed most in Oklahoma City, OK: what employers in the metro report paying everyone in each, and DOL's four prevailing wage levels there. More
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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