Updated
PERM jobs in Tulsa, OK
- Decisions
- 761
- Approved
- 90.6%
- Median certified wage
- $63,969
- 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- withdrawn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| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Withdrawn |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 | 74 | 8 | 2 |
| FY2017 | 55 | 14 | 2 |
| FY2018 | 65 | 6 | 5 |
| FY2019 | 70 | 3 | 4 |
| FY2020 | 48 | 1 | 1 |
| FY2021 | 60 | 3 | 2 |
| FY2022 | 41 | 10 | 1 |
| FY2023 | 45 | 4 | 3 |
| FY2024 | 45 | 13 | 7 |
| FY2025 | 85 | 4 | 4 |
| FY2026 | 68 | 2 | 6 |
Top sponsors
- LBL Gunite of Tulsa LP 46
- COX RETIREMENT PROPERTIES, INC 32
- Roark Landscaping Corporation 25
- American Airlines, Inc. 22
- PERFECT FOOD AND GAS 1 INC 22
- UNIVERSITY VILLAGE RETIREMENT COMMUNITY, LLC. 18
- DOVE SCHOOLS, INC 17
- SAINT FRANCIS HEALTH SYSTEM 17
- ONEOK Services Company, LLC 17
- THE UNIVERSITY OF TULSA 17
Top occupations
- Software Developers, Applications 66
- Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers 58
- Nursing Assistants (SOC 31-1014) 32
- Civil Engineers 27
- Mechanical Engineers 26
- Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education 22
- Software Developers 21
- Electrical Engineers 21
- Computer Systems Analysts 21
- Nursing Assistants (SOC 31-1131) 17
Industries
- Engineering Services 50
- Nursing Care Facilities (Skilled Nursing Facilities) 50
- Poured Concrete Foundation and Structure Contractors 48
- Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools 37
- Elementary and Secondary Schools 34
- Landscaping Services 24
- Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation 22
- General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 17
- Computer Systems Design Services 14
- Custom Computer Programming Services 13
Countries of citizenship
- India 187
- Mexico 103
- Nepal 30
- China 28
- South Korea 20
- Nigeria 17
- Turkey 16
- Kenya 14
- Zimbabwe 12
- Iran 11
Worker's education
- Master's 208
- Bachelor's 163
- None 130
- High School 25
- Doctorate 20
- Other 20
- Associate's 18
Visa held when filed
- H-1B 298
- F-1 54
- NOT IN USA 33
- L-1 19
- EWI 14
- B-2 7
- E-2 6
- TN 6
- H-2B 4
- B-1 3
H-1B in Tulsa, OK
2,099 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 1,947 (93%). 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 115
- Hospitalists 53
- Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 52
- Mechanical Engineers 32
- Accountants and Auditors 27
- General Internal Medicine Physicians 21
- Data Scientists 21
- Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education 20
- Electrical Engineers 19
- Network and Computer Systems Administrators 16
Where Tulsa, OK sits
- Counties
- Osage, Rogers, Tulsa and Wagoner counties
- Census places Tulsa city in all four
- Metro area
- Tulsa, OK
- Metropolitan statistical area
- DOL wage area
- Tulsa, OK
- The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27
89.2 is BEA's price level for the Tulsa, OK metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 68.2. A salary here buys about 112% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.
- Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers58 PERM decisions
- Civil Engineers27 PERM decisions
- Mechanical Engineers26 PERM decisions
- Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education22 PERM decisions
- Software Developers21 PERM decisions
- Electrical Engineers21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers | $46,160 | $38,210 | $42,224 | $46,218 | $50,232 |
| Civil Engineers | $102,080 | $74,672 | $91,000 | $107,328 | $123,656 |
| Mechanical Engineers | $107,440 | $75,962 | $92,726 | $109,470 | $126,235 |
| Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education | $48,410 | $45,320 | $49,347 | $53,373 | $57,400 |
| Software Developers | $108,730 | $78,562 | $97,469 | $116,376 | $135,283 |
| Electrical Engineers | $105,180 | $82,930 | $97,011 | $111,093 | $125,174 |
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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