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PERM jobs in St. Paul, MN

Decisions
410
Approved
96.5%
Median certified wage
$90,636
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  • withdrawn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Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn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 35 3 0
FY2017 31 2 0
FY2018 25 2 1
FY2019 25 0 0
FY2020 33 3 1
FY2021 27 0 0
FY2022 32 1 1
FY2023 27 1 3
FY2024 39 0 1
FY2025 57 1 3
FY2026 53 1 2

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Countries of citizenship

  • India 100
  • China 33
  • South Korea 24
  • Costa Rica 12
  • Canada 12
  • Bangladesh 8
  • Pakistan 8
  • Nepal 6
  • Thailand 4
  • Mexico 4

Worker's education

  • Master's 104
  • Bachelor's 90
  • Doctorate 41
  • Other 23
  • None 18
  • Associate's 5
  • High School 4

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 199
  • F-1 30
  • L-1 27
  • NOT IN USA 12
  • TN 3
  • E-3 2
  • H-4 1

H-1B in St. Paul, MN

1,916 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 1,804 (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.

Jobs, certified LCAs since FY2024

  1. Software Developers 102
  2. Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 41
  3. Manufacturing Engineers 30
  4. Mechanical Engineers 27
  5. Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 24
  6. Data Scientists 23
  7. Computer Programmers 18
  8. Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers 17
  9. Molecular and Cellular Biologists 15
  10. Computer Systems Analysts 13

Where St. Paul, MN sits

County
Ramsey County
Census places St. Paul city in it
Metro area
Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI
Metropolitan statistical area
DOL wage area
Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI
The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27

104.8 is BEA's price level for the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 111.8. A salary here buys about 95% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.

What these jobs pay in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI BLS May 2025, DOL wage year 2026-27
  • Personal Care Aides
    20 PERM decisions
  • Project Management Specialists
    19 PERM decisions
  • Biomedical Engineers
    18 PERM decisions
  • Software Developers
    16 PERM decisions
  • Industrial Engineers
    15 PERM decisions
  • Marketing Managers
    14 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
Market pay and DOL wage levels for the jobs filed most here
Job BLS median Level I Level II Level III Level IV
Personal Care Aides — $34,861 $37,544 $40,227 $42,910
Project Management Specialists $97,860 $71,427 $86,923 $102,440 $117,936
Biomedical Engineers $127,890 $93,683 $111,946 $130,187 $148,450
Software Developers $130,920 $91,624 $110,926 $130,208 $149,510
Industrial Engineers $104,730 $81,286 $96,928 $112,590 $128,232
Marketing Managers $173,040 $113,589 $147,222 $180,877 $214,510

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

The jobs filed most in St. Paul, MN: 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.

Cite this page

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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