Updated
PERM jobs in Ontario, CA
- Decisions
- 567
- Approved
- 93.5%
- Median certified wage
- $67,267
- 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- withdrawn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| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Withdrawn |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 | 48 | 4 | 2 |
| FY2017 | 40 | 7 | 3 |
| FY2018 | 52 | 3 | 4 |
| FY2019 | 38 | 4 | 0 |
| FY2020 | 38 | 3 | 1 |
| FY2021 | 44 | 3 | 1 |
| FY2022 | 26 | 3 | 3 |
| FY2023 | 33 | 4 | 3 |
| FY2024 | 54 | 2 | 6 |
| FY2025 | 56 | 0 | 8 |
| FY2026 | 71 | 2 | 1 |
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Top occupations
- Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists 44
- Accountants and Auditors 35
- Software Developers, Applications 31
- Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders 26
- Financial Managers 20
- Computer Occupations, All Other 19
- Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers 18
- Computer Systems Analysts 16
- Management Analysts 15
- Cooks, Restaurant 14
Industries
- Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices 83
- Bottled Water Manufacturing 27
- Dog and Cat Food Manufacturing 26
- Management of Companies and Enterprises 23
- Plastics Packaging Film and Sheet (including Laminated) Manufacturing 20
- Sheet Metal Work Manufacturing 19
- Dried and Dehydrated Food Manufacturing 12
- Other Electrical Equipment and Component Manufacturing 8
- Drugs and Druggists' Sundries Merchant Wholesalers 7
- Other Miscellaneous Durable Goods Merchant Wholesalers 7
Countries of citizenship
- India 139
- China 114
- South Korea 38
- Taiwan 31
- Mexico 16
- Canada 10
- Colombia 9
- Philippines 7
- Iran 5
- Lebanon 4
Worker's education
- Master's 204
- Bachelor's 132
- High School 33
- None 24
- Other 14
- Doctorate 6
- Associate's 4
Visa held when filed
- H-1B 235
- F-1 47
- E-2 24
- NOT IN USA 16
- TN 10
- L-1 9
- B-2 3
- J-1 2
- H-4 2
- E-3 1
H-1B in Ontario, CA
1,378 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 1,301 (94%). 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
- Data Scientists 71
- Software Developers 55
- Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 50
- Search Marketing Strategists 49
- Accountants and Auditors 36
- Management Analysts 34
- Computer Systems Analysts 25
- Financial and Investment Analysts 22
- Logistics Analysts 17
- Medical and Health Services Managers 17
Where Ontario, CA sits
- County
- San Bernardino County
- Census places Ontario city in it
- Metro area
- Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA
- Metropolitan statistical area
- DOL wage area
- Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA
- The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27
106.4 is BEA's price level for the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 129.3. A salary here buys about 94% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.
- Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists44 PERM decisions
- Accountants and Auditors35 PERM decisions
- Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders26 PERM decisions
- Financial Managers20 PERM decisions
- Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers18 PERM decisions
- Management Analysts15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists | $69,840 | $46,550 | $63,003 | $79,477 | $95,930 |
| Accountants and Auditors | $83,920 | $61,256 | $76,461 | $91,645 | $106,850 |
| Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders | $43,780 | $35,797 | $40,269 | $44,741 | $49,213 |
| Financial Managers | $160,230 | $100,610 | $137,842 | $175,094 | $212,326 |
| Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers | $36,080 | $35,256 | $36,442 | $37,627 | $38,813 |
| Management Analysts | $87,910 | $64,896 | $80,974 | $97,074 | $113,152 |
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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