Updated
PERM jobs in Rockford, IL
- Decisions
- 160
- Approved
- 96.7%
- Median certified wage
- $105,083
- 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- withdrawn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| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Withdrawn |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 | 10 | 0 | 1 |
| FY2017 | 15 | 0 | 2 |
| FY2018 | 11 | 1 | 1 |
| FY2019 | 17 | 2 | 0 |
| FY2020 | 14 | 1 | 0 |
| FY2021 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2022 | 10 | 1 | 0 |
| FY2023 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2024 | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2025 | 15 | 0 | 6 |
| FY2026 | 20 | 0 | 0 |
Top sponsors
- Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation 30
- Comfort Keepers 12
- CRUSADERS CENTRAL CLINIC ASSOCIATION 12
- Cleo Communications US, LLC 10
- SOUND PHYSICIANS OF ILLINOIS, LLC 10
- BERGSTROM 9
- Spartans Agricultural Builders, Inc. 7
- Rockford Public School District #205 4
- ROCKFORD UNIVERSITY 4
- OSF Multi-Specialty Group 3
Top occupations
- Software Developers, Systems Software 11
- Dentists, General 10
- Internists, General 10
- Mechanical Engineers 8
- Software Developers 7
- First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers 7
- Physicians and Surgeons, All Other 7
- Electrical Engineers 6
- Personal Care Aides 6
- Family and General Practitioners 5
Industries
- Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing 26
- Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists) 21
- Nursing Care Facilities (Skilled Nursing Facilities) 12
- Other Computer Related Services 9
- General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 8
- Other Motor Vehicle Parts Manufacturing 8
- Support Activities for Crop Production 7
- Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools 5
- Elementary and Secondary Schools 4
- Offices of Dentists 4
Countries of citizenship
- India 43
- Canada 12
- Mexico 7
- United Kingdom 6
- Pakistan 5
- Spain 3
- Brazil 3
- South Korea 3
- Nigeria 3
- Romania 2
Worker's education
- Other 44
- Bachelor's 29
- Master's 25
- High School 5
- Doctorate 5
- None 4
Visa held when filed
- H-1B 74
- TN 6
- L-1 6
- F-1 4
- E-2 4
- B-2 2
- B-1 2
- J-1 1
- H-4 1
- EWI 1
H-1B in Rockford, IL
782 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 726 (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
- Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation 33
- L&T Technology Services Limited 27
- OSF Multi-Specialty Group 24
- Grandison Management, Inc. 22
- HCL AMERICA INC 18
- Rockford Health Physicians 13
- SwedishAmerican Hospital 13
- Independent Physicians Resource, Inc. 9
- Amazon.com Services LLC 7
- CRUSADERS CENTRAL CLINIC ASSOCIATION 6
Jobs, certified LCAs since FY2024
- Software Developers 55
- Hospitalists 42
- Physical Therapists 14
- Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 12
- Family Medicine Physicians 12
- Mechanical Engineers 9
- Occupational Therapists 9
- Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 8
- Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians 7
- Computer Programmers 6
Where Rockford, IL sits
- Counties
- Ogle and Winnebago counties
- Census places Rockford city in both
- Metro area
- Rockford, IL
- Metropolitan statistical area
- DOL wage area
- Rockford, IL
- For Winnebago County, at the city's center. Its counties sit in two wage areas
92.2 is BEA's price level for the Rockford, IL metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 70.1. A salary here buys about 109% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.
- Dentists, General10 PERM decisions
- Mechanical Engineers8 PERM decisions
- Software Developers7 PERM decisions
- First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers7 PERM decisions
- Electrical Engineers6 PERM decisions
- Personal Care Aides6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dentists, General | $214,670 | $128,752 | $167,710 | $206,690 | $245,648 |
| Mechanical Engineers | $99,150 | $73,382 | $87,922 | $102,461 | $117,000 |
| Software Developers | $107,640 | $75,005 | $95,098 | $115,170 | $135,262 |
| First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers | $102,140 | $63,128 | $79,934 | $96,720 | $113,526 |
| Electrical Engineers | $112,350 | $78,499 | $92,456 | $106,434 | $120,390 |
| Personal Care Aides | — | $33,862 | $35,547 | $37,253 | $38,938 |
Any job in any area, and every wage year since 2021-22, in the wage-level tool.
The jobs filed most in Rockford, IL: what employers in the metro report paying everyone in each, and DOL's four prevailing wage levels there. More
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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