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PERM jobs in Topeka, KS

Decisions
430
Approved
97.5%
Median certified wage
$29,640
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  • withdrawn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Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn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 22 4 0
FY2017 13 2 0
FY2018 17 1 0
FY2019 26 0 0
FY2020 16 0 3
FY2021 29 1 0
FY2022 14 0 0
FY2023 54 0 3
FY2024 14 1 11
FY2025 125 1 5
FY2026 68 0 0

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Countries of citizenship

  • India 72
  • Mexico 53
  • China 9
  • Philippines 9
  • Albania 7
  • Jordan 7
  • Brazil 6
  • Nepal 4
  • Bangladesh 4
  • Colombia 3

Worker's education

  • None 80
  • Master's 60
  • Other 45
  • Bachelor's 24
  • Doctorate 6

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 121
  • NOT IN USA 38
  • H-2B 25
  • F-1 13
  • F-2 4
  • L-1 2
  • B-2 2
  • TN 2
  • J-1 1

H-1B in Topeka, KS

1,361 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 1,297 (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 264
  2. Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 52
  3. Special Education Teachers, Elementary School 32
  4. Hospitalists 22
  5. Special Education Teachers, Secondary School 21
  6. Data Scientists 20
  7. Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education 18
  8. Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education 17
  9. General Internal Medicine Physicians 15
  10. Computer Programmers 14

Where Topeka, KS sits

County
Shawnee County
Census places Topeka city in it
Metro area
Topeka, KS
Metropolitan statistical area
DOL wage area
Topeka, KS
The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27

88.8 is BEA's price level for the Topeka, KS metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 65.0. A salary here buys about 113% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.

What these jobs pay in Topeka, KS BLS May 2025, DOL wage year 2026-27
  • Helpers--Production Workers
    155 PERM decisions
  • Fast Food and Counter Workers
    30 PERM decisions
  • General Internal Medicine Physicians
    12 PERM decisions
  • Software Developers
    10 PERM decisions
  • Manicurists and Pedicurists
    10 PERM decisions
  • Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education
    10 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
Helpers--Production Workers — $33,114 $37,648 $42,182 $46,717
Fast Food and Counter Workers $27,810 $23,005 $25,605 $28,184 $30,784
General Internal Medicine Physicians — $97,490 $181,917 $266,365 $350,792
Software Developers $111,870 $71,219 $91,083 $110,947 $130,811
Manicurists and Pedicurists $35,370 $28,642 $32,906 $37,190 $41,454
Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education $60,130 $48,260 $52,773 $57,287 $61,800

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

The jobs filed most in Topeka, KS: 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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