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PERM jobs in Stoughton, WI

Decisions
2,391
Approved
91.3%
Median certified wage
$37,440
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  • withdrawn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Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn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 3 0 0
FY2017 1 1 0
FY2018 0 0 0
FY2019 2 0 0
FY2020 1 0 0
FY2021 65 0 7
FY2022 26 34 60
FY2023 145 161 2
FY2024 280 4 5
FY2025 650 0 6
FY2026 934 0 4

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Top occupations

Industries

  • Truck Trailer Manufacturing 2,373
  • Engine, Turbine, and Power Transmission Equipment Manufacturing (NAICS 3336) 10
  • Other Motor Vehicle Parts Manufacturing 3
  • Hotels (except Casino Hotels) and Motels 3
  • Engine, Turbine, and Power Transmission Equipment Manufacturing (NAICS 33361) 1
  • Consumer Goods Rental 1

Countries of citizenship

Worker's education

  • High School 493
  • None 259
  • Master's 6
  • Associate's 2
  • Bachelor's 2
  • Doctorate 1

Visa held when filed

  • NOT IN USA 208
  • F-1 38
  • B-2 15
  • H-1B 9
  • E-2 4
  • J-1 4
  • F-2 3
  • H-2A 2
  • TPS 1
  • A1/A2 1

H-1B in Stoughton, WI

91 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 84 (92%). An LCA is the employer's wage attestation before an H-1B petition, so it counts positions offered. It doesn't count people hired.

Where Stoughton, WI sits

County
Dane County
Census places Stoughton city in it
Metro area
Madison, WI
Metropolitan statistical area
DOL wage area
Madison, WI
The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27

97.3 is BEA's price level for the Madison, WI metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 99.7. A salary here buys about 103% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.

What these jobs pay in Madison, WI BLS May 2025, DOL wage year 2026-27
  • Team Assemblers
    2,342 PERM decisions
  • Mechanical Engineers
    13 PERM decisions
  • Industrial Engineers
    1 PERM decisions
  • Maintenance and Repair Workers, General
    1 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
Team Assemblers — $38,896 $43,368 $47,819 $52,291
Mechanical Engineers $99,680 $74,776 $89,066 $103,334 $117,624
Industrial Engineers $100,370 $75,670 $91,208 $106,725 $122,262
Maintenance and Repair Workers, General $57,330 $40,518 $48,506 $56,472 $64,459

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

The jobs filed most in Stoughton, WI: 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.

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  • 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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