Updated
PERM jobs in Redwood City, CA
- Decisions
- 3,100
- Approved
- 98.6%
- Median certified wage
- $138,362
- 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- withdrawn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| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Withdrawn |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 | 380 | 12 | 27 |
| FY2017 | 276 | 4 | 11 |
| FY2018 | 356 | 3 | 9 |
| FY2019 | 249 | 9 | 6 |
| FY2020 | 250 | 5 | 10 |
| FY2021 | 325 | 0 | 10 |
| FY2022 | 236 | 0 | 9 |
| FY2023 | 201 | 2 | 13 |
| FY2024 | 147 | 2 | 11 |
| FY2025 | 270 | 0 | 11 |
| FY2026 | 242 | 4 | 10 |
Top sponsors
Top occupations
Industries
- Custom Computer Programming Services 549
- Computer Systems Design and Related Services 320
- Other Computer Related Services 299
- Software Publishers 250
- Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (NAICS 518210) 223
- Computer Systems Design Services 93
- Management Consulting Services 75
- Nursing Care Facilities (Skilled Nursing Facilities) 61
- Media Representatives 57
- Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (NAICS 51821) 55
Countries of citizenship
- India 1,431
- China 391
- Canada 103
- Philippines 77
- South Korea 59
- France 43
- Russia 30
- Mexico 27
- Taiwan 27
- Iran 25
Worker's education
- Master's 1,534
- Bachelor's 751
- High School 88
- Doctorate 73
- None 44
- Other 42
- Associate's 6
Visa held when filed
- H-1B 2,049
- L-1 183
- F-1 89
- TN 33
- E-2 18
- E-3 9
- O-1 7
- J-1 7
- L-2 6
- B-2 6
H-1B in Redwood City, CA
7,935 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 7,475 (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
- Software Developers 866
- Data Scientists 225
- Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 186
- Computer and Information Systems Managers 115
- Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 69
- Management Analysts 57
- Molecular and Cellular Biologists 54
- Computer and Information Research Scientists 48
- Database Administrators 48
- Mechatronics Engineers 40
Where Redwood City, CA sits
- County
- San Mateo County
- Census places Redwood City city in it
- Metro area
- San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA
- Metropolitan statistical area
- DOL wage area
- San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA
- The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27
115.6 is BEA's price level for the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 194.7. A salary here buys about 86% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.
- Software Developers228 PERM decisions
- Computer and Information Systems Managers122 PERM decisions
- Statisticians92 PERM decisions
- Management Analysts74 PERM decisions
- Data Scientists52 PERM decisions
- 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 | $186,640 | $137,093 | $165,131 | $193,149 | $221,187 |
| Computer and Information Systems Managers | $232,890 | $167,565 | $208,104 | $248,643 | $289,182 |
| Statisticians | — | $81,869 | $111,176 | $140,483 | $169,790 |
| Management Analysts | $126,730 | $73,258 | $105,165 | $137,093 | $169,000 |
| Data Scientists | $170,110 | $110,386 | $142,438 | $174,512 | $206,565 |
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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