Updated
PERM jobs in Rochester Hills, MI
- Decisions
- 262
- Approved
- 97.6%
- Median certified wage
- $90,000
- 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- withdrawn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| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Withdrawn |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 | 16 | 0 | 2 |
| FY2017 | 17 | 0 | 2 |
| FY2018 | 26 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2019 | 22 | 1 | 1 |
| FY2020 | 12 | 0 | 1 |
| FY2021 | 20 | 2 | 0 |
| FY2022 | 24 | 2 | 0 |
| FY2023 | 15 | 1 | 1 |
| FY2024 | 29 | 0 | 2 |
| FY2025 | 26 | 0 | 6 |
| FY2026 | 32 | 0 | 2 |
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Top occupations
Industries
- Electronic Connector Manufacturing 32
- Motor Vehicle Parts Manufacturing 20
- Engineering Services 14
- Custom Computer Programming Services 12
- Limited-Service Restaurants 12
- Relay and Industrial Control Manufacturing 10
- All Other General Purpose Machinery Manufacturing 10
- Motor Vehicle Transmission and Power Train Parts Manufacturing 10
- General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 9
- Motor Vehicle Seating and Interior Trim Manufacturing 9
Countries of citizenship
- India 87
- China 17
- Mexico 16
- South Korea 12
- Canada 11
- Germany 8
- France 5
- Turkey 5
- Brazil 4
- Romania 3
Worker's education
- Master's 93
- Bachelor's 67
- None 13
- Doctorate 7
- Other 7
- High School 3
- Associate's 1
Visa held when filed
- H-1B 111
- L-1 27
- F-1 13
- TN 11
- E-2 9
- NOT IN USA 5
- B-2 1
- L-2 1
- O-1 1
H-1B in Rochester Hills, MI
1,208 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 1,119 (93%). 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 117
- Mechanical Engineers 86
- Manufacturing Engineers 35
- Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 27
- Data Scientists 21
- Mechatronics Engineers 20
- Electrical Engineers 18
- Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 15
- Computer Systems Analysts 14
- Sales Engineers 10
Where Rochester Hills, MI sits
- County
- Oakland County
- Census places Rochester Hills city in it
- Metro area
- Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI
- Metropolitan statistical area
- DOL wage area
- Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI
- The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27
100.3 is BEA's price level for the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 94.7. A salary here buys about 100% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.
- Mechanical Engineers68 PERM decisions
- Industrial Engineers22 PERM decisions
- Software Developers17 PERM decisions
- Architectural and Engineering Managers14 PERM decisions
- Electrical Engineers13 PERM decisions
- Fast Food and Counter Workers12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineers | $109,470 | $84,864 | $100,672 | $116,459 | $132,267 |
| Industrial Engineers | $104,110 | $80,850 | $95,534 | $110,219 | $124,904 |
| Software Developers | $130,760 | $89,877 | $108,950 | $128,003 | $147,077 |
| Architectural and Engineering Managers | $168,550 | $127,941 | $150,405 | $172,890 | $195,354 |
| Electrical Engineers | $114,390 | $84,302 | $100,651 | $117,021 | $133,370 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $29,590 | $27,248 | $29,037 | $30,846 | $32,635 |
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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