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PERM jobs in San Jose, CA

Decisions
24,665
Approved
98.5%
Median certified wage
$139,844
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  • withdrawn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Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn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 2,674 39 82
FY2017 1,830 35 46
FY2018 2,264 34 65
FY2019 2,666 33 58
FY2020 2,015 34 84
FY2021 1,946 33 47
FY2022 2,137 18 88
FY2023 1,835 45 104
FY2024 1,470 54 113
FY2025 2,155 11 222
FY2026 2,315 22 91

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Top occupations

Industries

Countries of citizenship

Worker's education

  • Master's 12,475
  • Bachelor's 5,730
  • Doctorate 733
  • None 269
  • Other 171
  • High School 162
  • Associate's 37

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 15,709
  • L-1 2,210
  • F-1 696
  • TN 114
  • NOT IN USA 102
  • E-2 89
  • H-4 87
  • O-1 60
  • L-2 32
  • B-2 25

H-1B in San Jose, CA

71,028 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 67,623 (95%). An LCA is the employer's wage attestation before an H-1B petition, so it counts positions offered. It doesn't count people hired.

Jobs, certified LCAs since FY2024

  1. Software Developers 9,258
  2. Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 2,699
  3. Data Scientists 1,961
  4. Electronics Engineers, Except Computer 1,913
  5. Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 1,096
  6. Computer and Information Systems Managers 987
  7. Accountants and Auditors 826
  8. Computer Programmers 586
  9. Electrical Engineers 566
  10. Operations Research Analysts 539

Where San Jose, CA sits

County
Santa Clara County
Census places San Jose city in it
Metro area
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA
Metropolitan statistical area
DOL wage area
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA
The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27

110.4 is BEA's price level for the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 211.9. A salary here buys about 91% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.

What these jobs pay in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA BLS May 2025, DOL wage year 2026-27
  • Electronics Engineers, Except Computer
    2,735 PERM decisions
  • Software Developers
    2,423 PERM decisions
  • Sales Engineers
    628 PERM decisions
  • Accountants and Auditors
    572 PERM decisions
  • Computer and Information Systems Managers
    479 PERM decisions
  • Data Scientists
    400 PERM decisions
$100k$200k$300k
  • middle half of pay (BLS)
  • median
  • 10th to 90th percentile
  • DOL's Levels I to IV, left to right
Market pay and DOL wage levels for the jobs filed most here
Job BLS median Level I Level II Level III Level IV
Electronics Engineers, Except Computer $194,370 $124,405 $155,896 $187,408 $218,899
Software Developers $213,110 $152,797 $187,075 $221,374 $255,653
Sales Engineers $177,490 $120,994 $150,426 $179,878 $209,310
Accountants and Auditors $121,700 $83,429 $105,872 $128,294 $150,738
Computer and Information Systems Managers $291,660 — — — —
Data Scientists $185,080 $125,486 $168,917 $212,326 $255,757

Any job in any area, and every wage year since 2021-22, in the wage-level tool.

The jobs filed most in San Jose, CA: what employers in the metro report paying everyone in each, and DOL's four prevailing wage levels there. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics; DOL OFLC wage tables

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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Waiting on a PERM case?

  • When it'll likely be decided
  • An email when DOL moves it

It's on your ETA-9089 receipt. A case number looks like G-100-26125-868956.

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