Updated
PERM jobs in Providence, RI
- Decisions
- 404
- Approved
- 95.7%
- Median certified wage
- $93,542
- 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- withdrawn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| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Withdrawn |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 | 27 | 2 | 1 |
| FY2017 | 28 | 2 | 1 |
| FY2018 | 38 | 2 | 5 |
| FY2019 | 36 | 0 | 1 |
| FY2020 | 27 | 4 | 3 |
| FY2021 | 25 | 1 | 1 |
| FY2022 | 27 | 3 | 2 |
| FY2023 | 20 | 1 | 2 |
| FY2024 | 32 | 1 | 8 |
| FY2025 | 50 | 0 | 9 |
| FY2026 | 44 | 0 | 1 |
Top sponsors
Top occupations
- Internists, General 33
- Cooks, Restaurant 20
- Software Developers, Applications 20
- General Internal Medicine Physicians 15
- Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technologists 15
- Physicians and Surgeons, All Other 15
- Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary 14
- Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists 11
- First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers 11
- Software Developers 10
Industries
- Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools 80
- Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists) 76
- Full-Service Restaurants 34
- Food Services and Drinking Places 26
- Other Computer Related Services 22
- Other Gambling Industries 21
- Employment Services 15
- Beauty Salons 13
- Computer and Computer Peripheral Equipment and Software Merchant Wholesalers 11
- General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 8
Countries of citizenship
- India 74
- South Korea 34
- China 27
- Nepal 26
- Canada 20
- Pakistan 12
- Italy 9
- Lebanon 9
- Egypt 5
- Colombia 4
Worker's education
- Other 78
- Master's 76
- Bachelor's 42
- Doctorate 40
- None 26
- High School 22
- Associate's 4
Visa held when filed
- H-1B 198
- F-1 48
- L-1 5
- E-2 3
- O-1 3
- PAROLEE 3
- NOT IN USA 3
- B-2 3
- TPS 2
- J-1 2
H-1B in Providence, RI
2,211 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 2,045 (92%). 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
- Hospitalists 80
- Software Developers 74
- Molecular and Cellular Biologists 47
- Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 41
- Data Scientists 21
- Anesthesiologists 20
- Computer Systems Analysts 18
- Manufacturing Engineers 18
- General Internal Medicine Physicians 17
- Neurologists 15
Where Providence, RI sits
- County
- Providence County
- Census places Providence city in it
- Metro area
- Providence-Warwick, RI-MA
- Metropolitan statistical area
- DOL wage area
- Providence-Warwick, RI-MA
- The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27
101.8 is BEA's price level for the Providence-Warwick, RI-MA metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 103.9. A salary here buys about 98% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.
- Cooks, Restaurant20 PERM decisions
- General Internal Medicine Physicians15 PERM decisions
- Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technologists15 PERM decisions
- Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary14 PERM decisions
- Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists11 PERM decisions
- First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cooks, Restaurant | $37,460 | $33,446 | $37,086 | $40,726 | $44,366 |
| General Internal Medicine Physicians | $379,490 | — | — | — | — |
| Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technologists | — | $48,672 | $61,714 | $74,776 | $87,818 |
| Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary | $94,490 | $62,330 | $79,570 | $96,810 | $114,050 |
| Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists | $31,200 | $31,200 | $35,610 | $40,040 | $44,450 |
| First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers | $46,640 | $36,920 | $44,429 | $51,938 | $59,446 |
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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