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PERM jobs in Piscataway, NJ

Decisions
3,992
Approved
96.4%
Median certified wage
$109,283
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  • withdrawn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Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn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 619 20 15
FY2017 386 22 8
FY2018 422 17 12
FY2019 306 33 7
FY2020 306 6 5
FY2021 307 3 24
FY2022 413 9 9
FY2023 331 14 13
FY2024 224 4 10
FY2025 253 4 6
FY2026 177 6 1

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Countries of citizenship

  • India 3,190
  • China 166
  • Taiwan 19
  • Pakistan 18
  • Nepal 13
  • Canada 10
  • Turkey 8
  • Bangladesh 7
  • South Korea 5
  • United States Of America 4

Worker's education

  • Master's 2,200
  • Bachelor's 1,220
  • Doctorate 30
  • Other 29
  • None 18
  • Associate's 2
  • High School 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 3,254
  • F-1 115
  • L-1 24
  • NOT IN USA 13
  • H-4 11
  • TN 4
  • PAROLEE 4
  • H-1B1 4
  • L-2 3
  • E-3 2

H-1B in Piscataway, NJ

6,902 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 6,590 (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. Software Developers 660
  2. Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 292
  3. Computer Programmers 123
  4. Chemists 111
  5. Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 97
  6. Computer Systems Analysts 76
  7. Data Scientists 68
  8. Molecular and Cellular Biologists 54
  9. Manufacturing Engineers 47
  10. Network and Computer Systems Administrators 42

Where Piscataway, NJ sits

County
Middlesex County
Census places Piscataway township 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.

What these jobs pay in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ BLS May 2025, DOL wage year 2026-27
  • Software Developers
    327 PERM decisions
  • Chemists
    73 PERM decisions
  • Management Analysts
    65 PERM decisions
$100k$150k$200k
  • 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 $166,830 $109,845 $137,717 $165,589 $193,461
Chemists $85,150 $66,186 $81,994 $97,781 $113,589
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 jobs filed most in Piscataway, NJ: 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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