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PERM jobs in Vacaville, CA

Decisions
97
Approved
86.2%
Median certified wage
$78,000
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  • withdrawn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Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn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 11 0 1
FY2017 15 1 0
FY2018 19 0 3
FY2019 6 4 0
FY2020 7 1 0
FY2021 0 0 0
FY2022 3 4 1
FY2023 2 2 0
FY2024 0 0 2
FY2025 4 0 3
FY2026 8 0 0

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Industries

  • Vocational Rehabilitation Services 25
  • Engineering Services 17
  • Nursing Care Facilities (Skilled Nursing Facilities) 13
  • Food Services and Drinking Places 6
  • Other Residential Care Facilities 4
  • Full-Service Restaurants 3
  • Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (NAICS 541711) 3
  • Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (NAICS 541710) 3
  • Aircraft Manufacturing 2
  • Correctional Institutions 2

Countries of citizenship

  • India 37
  • Philippines 14
  • Nepal 5
  • China 5
  • Mexico 4
  • Taiwan 3
  • Pakistan 2
  • Vietnam 2
  • South Korea 2
  • Mongolia 1

Worker's education

  • Master's 39
  • None 20
  • Bachelor's 13
  • Other 4
  • Associate's 3
  • High School 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 43
  • NOT IN USA 12
  • H-2B 5
  • TN 3
  • EWI 1
  • E-1 1
  • L-1 1
  • H-4 1
  • F-1 1

H-1B in Vacaville, CA

181 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 169 (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.

Where Vacaville, CA sits

County
Solano County
Census places Vacaville city in it
Metro area
Vallejo, CA
Metropolitan statistical area
DOL wage area
Vallejo, CA
The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27

108.5 is BEA's price level for the Vallejo, CA metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 142.0. A salary here buys about 92% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.

What these jobs pay in Vallejo, CA BLS May 2025, DOL wage year 2026-27
  • Electrical Engineers
    15 PERM decisions
  • Occupational Therapists
    8 PERM decisions
  • Speech-Language Pathologists
    6 PERM decisions
  • Home Health Aides
    5 PERM decisions
  • Driver/Sales Workers
    4 PERM decisions
  • Mechatronics Engineers
    3 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
Electrical Engineers $160,060 $99,486 $121,930 $144,352 $166,795
Occupational Therapists $135,000 $97,739 $113,173 $128,606 $144,040
Speech-Language Pathologists $124,440 $93,101 $108,451 $123,802 $139,152
Home Health Aides — $34,320 $35,755 $37,190 $38,626
Driver/Sales Workers $47,780 $40,082 $45,074 $50,086 $55,078
Mechatronics Engineers $102,440 $74,090 $95,056 $116,002 $136,968

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

The jobs filed most in Vacaville, CA: 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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