Updated
PERM jobs in Rockville, MD
- Decisions
- 1,774
- Approved
- 95.1%
- Median certified wage
- $96,595
- 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- withdrawn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| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Withdrawn |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 | 227 | 9 | 6 |
| FY2017 | 126 | 20 | 10 |
| FY2018 | 183 | 9 | 5 |
| FY2019 | 100 | 12 | 5 |
| FY2020 | 97 | 8 | 11 |
| FY2021 | 208 | 6 | 4 |
| FY2022 | 147 | 3 | 2 |
| FY2023 | 135 | 4 | 10 |
| FY2024 | 167 | 6 | 5 |
| FY2025 | 143 | 3 | 9 |
| FY2026 | 87 | 3 | 4 |
Top sponsors
- INFINITE COMPUTER SOLUTIONS, INC 238
- Infosys Public Services, Inc. 141
- Client Network Services, LLC 68
- Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. 44
- DRFIRST 43
- TISTA SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION 35
- Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group, P.C. 31
- Ramnarain L.C. 31
- CLIENT NETWORK SERVICES, LLC. CNSI 21
- DSFederal Inc. 19
Top occupations
- Software Developers, Applications 455
- Computer Systems Analysts 129
- Software Developers 98
- Computer Occupations, All Other 96
- Software Developers, Systems Software 58
- Accountants and Auditors 52
- Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 36
- Statisticians 34
- Network and Computer Systems Administrators* 34
- Food Preparation Workers 33
Industries
- Custom Computer Programming Services 481
- Other Computer Related Services 284
- Computer Systems Design Services 68
- Financial Transactions Processing, Reserve, and Clearinghouse Activities 35
- Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (NAICS 541710) 34
- Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists) 33
- Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (NAICS 541711) 32
- Professional Employer Organizations 31
- Engineering Services 28
- Full-Service Restaurants 25
Countries of citizenship
- India 859
- China 172
- South Korea 61
- Vietnam 29
- El Salvador 26
- Sri Lanka 23
- Turkey 19
- Canada 18
- Philippines 17
- Mexico 15
Worker's education
- Master's 713
- Bachelor's 516
- None 160
- High School 47
- Doctorate 31
- Associate's 21
- Other 18
Visa held when filed
- H-1B 1,051
- F-1 111
- NOT IN USA 79
- A1/A2 24
- L-1 18
- B-2 18
- TN 14
- E-2 13
- EWI 12
- TPS 9
H-1B in Rockville, MD
5,031 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 4,744 (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 451
- Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 106
- Data Scientists 76
- Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 65
- Computer Programmers 60
- Molecular and Cellular Biologists 52
- Computer Systems Analysts 43
- Accountants and Auditors 39
- Network and Computer Systems Administrators 30
- Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists 26
Where Rockville, MD sits
- County
- Montgomery County
- Census places Rockville city in it
- Metro area
- Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV
- Metropolitan statistical area
- DOL wage area
- Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV
- The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27
108.9 is BEA's price level for the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 151.1. A salary here buys about 92% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.
- Software Developers98 PERM decisions
- Accountants and Auditors52 PERM decisions
- Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers36 PERM decisions
- Statisticians34 PERM decisions
- Food Preparation Workers33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Software Developers | $154,930 | $102,086 | $127,462 | $152,838 | $178,214 |
| Accountants and Auditors | $102,140 | $72,384 | $92,914 | $113,422 | $133,952 |
| Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers | $126,350 | $85,800 | $105,851 | $125,902 | $145,954 |
| Statisticians | $136,660 | $102,003 | $119,850 | $137,717 | $155,563 |
| Food Preparation Workers | $37,630 | $33,155 | $35,901 | $38,667 | $41,413 |
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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