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PERM jobs in Plainsboro, NJ

Decisions
3,914
Approved
96.4%
Median certified wage
$96,750
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  • withdrawn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Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn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 285 10 18
FY2017 203 9 4
FY2018 251 9 8
FY2019 254 4 3
FY2020 366 5 4
FY2021 489 3 4
FY2022 458 9 8
FY2023 328 10 16
FY2024 235 37 7
FY2025 416 34 6
FY2026 408 7 6

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Top occupations

Industries

Countries of citizenship

  • India 2,859
  • China 42
  • Nepal 19
  • Mexico 9
  • France 7
  • Pakistan 6
  • United States Of America 5
  • Canada 5
  • Philippines 5
  • Sri Lanka 5

Worker's education

  • Master's 1,522
  • Bachelor's 1,456
  • Other 9
  • Doctorate 7
  • Associate's 4
  • None 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 2,701
  • F-1 151
  • H-4 51
  • L-1 49
  • L-2 18
  • B-2 7
  • PAROLEE 5
  • E-3 2
  • TN 2
  • E-2 2

H-1B in Plainsboro, NJ

2,512 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 2,378 (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 292
  2. Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 216
  3. Computer Programmers 67
  4. Data Scientists 53
  5. Computer Systems Analysts 45
  6. Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 39
  7. Database Administrators 17
  8. Data Warehousing Specialists 16
  9. Network and Computer Systems Administrators 16
  10. Operations Research Analysts 13

Where Plainsboro, NJ sits

County
Middlesex County
Census places Plainsboro 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
    690 PERM decisions
  • Management Analysts
    110 PERM decisions
  • Computer Systems Analysts
    104 PERM decisions
  • Data Warehousing Specialists
    74 PERM decisions
  • Database Administrators
    49 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
Management Analysts $124,390 $76,648 $104,978 $133,307 $161,637
Computer Systems Analysts $128,340 $83,616 $106,267 $128,939 $151,590
Data Warehousing Specialists $131,540 $86,882 $113,506 $140,130 $166,754
Database Administrators $121,550 $76,523 $100,922 $125,299 $149,698

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

The jobs filed most in Plainsboro, 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.

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.

Cite this page

Waiting on a PERM case?

  • When it'll likely be decided
  • An email when DOL moves it

It's on your ETA-9089 receipt. A case number looks like G-100-26125-868956.

Don't have the number?