Updated
PERM jobs in Santa Monica, CA
- Decisions
- 1,982
- Approved
- 97.3%
- Median certified wage
- $125,000
- 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- withdrawn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| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Withdrawn |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 | 167 | 12 | 1 |
| FY2017 | 145 | 3 | 5 |
| FY2018 | 184 | 7 | 4 |
| FY2019 | 230 | 6 | 5 |
| FY2020 | 170 | 6 | 5 |
| FY2021 | 180 | 3 | 4 |
| FY2022 | 225 | 4 | 4 |
| FY2023 | 114 | 4 | 8 |
| FY2024 | 153 | 5 | 11 |
| FY2025 | 148 | 0 | 8 |
| FY2026 | 154 | 2 | 5 |
Top sponsors
Top occupations
- Software Developers, Applications 451
- Software Developers, Systems Software 225
- Computer Occupations, All Other 125
- Software Developers 110
- Multimedia Artists and Animators 82
- Computer and Information Systems Managers 71
- Statisticians 56
- Financial Analysts 51
- Marketing Managers 50
- Accountants and Auditors 47
Industries
- Software Publishers (NAICS 511210) 377
- Electronic Shopping and Mail-Order Houses 191
- Computer Systems Design and Related Services 118
- Motion Picture and Video Industries 114
- Custom Computer Programming Services 95
- Software Publishers (NAICS 513210) 76
- Software Publishers (NAICS 51121) 57
- Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals 49
- Other Computer Related Services 41
- Diet and Weight Reducing Centers 36
Countries of citizenship
- India 572
- China 340
- Canada 96
- Ukraine 61
- South Korea 50
- United Kingdom 48
- France 36
- Mexico 32
- Taiwan 31
- Russia 28
Worker's education
- Master's 903
- Bachelor's 502
- None 84
- Other 45
- Doctorate 45
- High School 19
- Associate's 11
Visa held when filed
- H-1B 1,079
- L-1 114
- F-1 100
- TN 44
- O-1 34
- NOT IN USA 25
- E-2 20
- E-3 18
- J-1 17
- B-2 14
H-1B in Santa Monica, CA
5,039 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 4,734 (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 491
- Data Scientists 149
- Search Marketing Strategists 67
- Computer and Information Systems Managers 59
- Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 59
- Marketing Managers 48
- Financial and Investment Analysts 48
- Special Effects Artists and Animators 35
- Accountants and Auditors 34
- Architects, Except Landscape and Naval 34
Where Santa Monica, CA sits
- County
- Los Angeles County
- Census places Santa Monica city in it
- Metro area
- Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA
- Metropolitan statistical area
- DOL wage area
- Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA
- The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27
113.6 is BEA's price level for the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 170.4. A salary here buys about 88% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.
- Software Developers110 PERM decisions
- Multimedia Artists and Animators82 PERM decisions
- Computer and Information Systems Managers71 PERM decisions
- Statisticians56 PERM decisions
- Financial Analysts51 PERM decisions
- Marketing Managers50 PERM decisions
- 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 | $160,920 | $106,787 | $134,202 | $161,637 | $189,051 |
| Multimedia Artists and Animators | $124,590 | $76,981 | $103,480 | $130,000 | $156,499 |
| Computer and Information Systems Managers | $204,370 | $136,885 | $172,411 | $207,938 | $243,464 |
| Statisticians | $116,200 | $79,997 | $100,110 | $120,224 | $140,338 |
| Financial Analysts | $102,260 | $74,485 | $95,493 | $116,522 | $137,530 |
| Marketing Managers | $171,900 | $110,822 | $151,902 | $192,982 | $234,062 |
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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