Updated
PERM jobs in Riverside, CA
- Decisions
- 553
- Approved
- 95.1%
- Median certified wage
- $35,880
- 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- withdrawn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| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Withdrawn |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 | 3 | 1 |
| FY2017 | 30 | 1 | 1 |
| FY2018 | 17 | 2 | 1 |
| FY2019 | 32 | 3 | 0 |
| FY2020 | 14 | 1 | 4 |
| FY2021 | 42 | 3 | 0 |
| FY2022 | 16 | 4 | 3 |
| FY2023 | 19 | 4 | 3 |
| FY2024 | 59 | 2 | 5 |
| FY2025 | 191 | 2 | 2 |
| FY2026 | 57 | 1 | 3 |
Top sponsors
- Lineage Logistics Services, LLC 154
- Morgan Truck Body, LLC 61
- University of California, Riverside 39
- MERIT LOGISTICS 19
- MERIT INTEGRATED LOGISTICS 16
- COMMUNITY CARE REHABILITATION CENTER LLC 15
- Bourns, Inc. 13
- Empire Medical Transportations, LLC 10
- ROYAL INTERPACK N.A., INC. 10
- Inland Grace Adult Day Health Care Center 8
Top occupations
- Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand 189
- Team Assemblers 61
- Nursing Assistants 15
- Civil Engineers 13
- Industrial Engineers 10
- Accountants and Auditors 9
- Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists 9
- Cooks, Restaurant 7
- Dentists, General 6
- First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers 6
Industries
- Refrigerated Warehousing and Storage 154
- Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools 53
- Process, Physical Distribution, and Logistics Consulting Services 35
- Automobile Manufacturing 32
- Automobile and Light Duty Motor Vehicle Manufacturing 29
- Nursing Care Facilities (Skilled Nursing Facilities) 15
- Other Electronic Component Manufacturing 13
- Plastics Product Manufacturing 13
- Engineering Services 11
- Plastics Packaging Materials and Unlaminated Film and Sheet Manufacturing 11
Countries of citizenship
- Mexico 57
- South Korea 35
- Vietnam 35
- India 33
- China 20
- Thailand 19
- Philippines 13
- Canada 12
- Brazil 7
- Japan 6
Worker's education
- None 119
- Master's 55
- Bachelor's 52
- Doctorate 31
- Other 15
- High School 6
- Associate's 2
Visa held when filed
- H-1B 88
- NOT IN USA 52
- F-1 39
- B-2 11
- L-1 9
- TN 6
- E-2 6
- EWI 4
- J-1 3
- F-2 3
H-1B in Riverside, CA
1,301 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 1,123 (86%). 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
- Regents of the University of California at Riverside 183
- el-dorado-national-california-inc 30
- Regent of University California of Riverside 17
- California Air Resources Board 13
- Bourns, Inc. 10
- La Sierra University 10
- University of California, Riverside 9
- STARK AMERICA INC 8
- Albert A. Webb Associates 7
- CALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY 7
Jobs, certified LCAs since FY2024
- Molecular and Cellular Biologists 43
- Software Developers 37
- Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 26
- Manufacturing Engineers 19
- Mathematical Science Teachers, Postsecondary 19
- Data Scientists 17
- Biochemists and Biophysicists 16
- Soil and Plant Scientists 15
- Mechanical Engineers 14
- Civil Engineers 13
Where Riverside, CA sits
- County
- Riverside County
- Census places Riverside 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.
- Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand189 PERM decisions
- Team Assemblers61 PERM decisions
- Nursing Assistants15 PERM decisions
- Civil Engineers13 PERM decisions
- Industrial Engineers10 PERM decisions
- Accountants and Auditors9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand | $46,060 | $37,315 | $41,725 | $46,114 | $50,523 |
| Team Assemblers | — | $36,421 | $40,685 | $44,928 | $49,192 |
| Nursing Assistants | $46,430 | $41,080 | $43,992 | $46,904 | $49,816 |
| Civil Engineers | $115,120 | $78,707 | $98,259 | $117,790 | $137,342 |
| Industrial Engineers | $101,700 | $74,755 | $91,104 | $107,474 | $123,822 |
| Accountants and Auditors | $83,920 | $61,256 | $76,461 | $91,645 | $106,850 |
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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