Updated
PERM jobs in Tempe, AZ
- Decisions
- 2,083
- Approved
- 97.3%
- Median certified wage
- $97,000
- 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- withdrawn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| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Withdrawn |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 | 118 | 3 | 0 |
| FY2017 | 73 | 3 | 0 |
| FY2018 | 179 | 5 | 4 |
| FY2019 | 121 | 6 | 0 |
| FY2020 | 115 | 1 | 17 |
| FY2021 | 162 | 3 | 2 |
| FY2022 | 183 | 6 | 10 |
| FY2023 | 188 | 8 | 5 |
| FY2024 | 330 | 12 | 7 |
| FY2025 | 278 | 2 | 15 |
| FY2026 | 211 | 6 | 10 |
Top sponsors
Top occupations
- Software Developers, Applications 301
- Personal Care Aides 207
- Software Developers 197
- Software Developers, Systems Software 161
- Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers 87
- Computer Occupations, All Other 84
- Electronics Engineers, Except Computer 72
- Computer Systems Analysts 67
- First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers 53
- Data Scientists 49
Industries
- Home Health Care Services 241
- Electronic Shopping and Mail-Order Houses 164
- Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools 158
- Landscaping Services 123
- Commercial Banking 121
- Custom Computer Programming Services 113
- Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation 92
- Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals 88
- Semiconductor and Related Device Manufacturing 88
- Used Car Dealers 67
Countries of citizenship
- India 821
- Mexico 152
- China 104
- Philippines 80
- Canada 58
- Bangladesh 50
- Brazil 31
- South Korea 30
- Taiwan 17
- Germany 14
Worker's education
- Master's 658
- Bachelor's 398
- None 307
- Doctorate 133
- Other 15
- Associate's 6
- High School 5
Visa held when filed
- H-1B 1,059
- NOT IN USA 131
- F-1 67
- L-1 52
- TN 27
- E-2 9
- B-2 6
- E-1 4
- E-3 3
- F-2 2
H-1B in Tempe, AZ
8,906 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 8,462 (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.
Employers, certified LCAs since FY2024
Jobs, certified LCAs since FY2024
- Software Developers 1,003
- Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 376
- Data Scientists 278
- Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 103
- Computer Systems Analysts 90
- Computer and Information Systems Managers 85
- Operations Research Analysts 75
- Civil Engineers 73
- Manufacturing Engineers 63
- Database Administrators 55
Where Tempe, AZ sits
- County
- Maricopa County
- Census places Tempe city in it
- Metro area
- Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ
- Metropolitan statistical area
- DOL wage area
- Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ
- The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27
103.3 is BEA's price level for the Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 121.2. A salary here buys about 97% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.
- Personal Care Aides207 PERM decisions
- Software Developers197 PERM decisions
- Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers87 PERM decisions
- Electronics Engineers, Except Computer72 PERM decisions
- First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers53 PERM decisions
- Data Scientists49 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Personal Care Aides | — | $32,677 | $34,757 | $36,837 | $38,917 |
| Software Developers | $131,750 | $92,123 | $113,714 | $135,304 | $156,894 |
| Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers | $39,140 | $36,941 | $39,541 | $42,162 | $44,762 |
| Electronics Engineers, Except Computer | $129,540 | $81,827 | $104,894 | $127,941 | $151,008 |
| First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers | $56,700 | $46,072 | $51,813 | $57,574 | $63,315 |
| Data Scientists | $114,540 | $75,130 | $95,514 | $115,898 | $136,282 |
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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