Updated
PERM jobs in Vista, CA
- Decisions
- 125
- Approved
- 92.5%
- Median certified wage
- $38,979
- 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- withdrawn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| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Withdrawn |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 | 5 | 0 | 1 |
| FY2017 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2018 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2019 | 9 | 2 | 2 |
| FY2020 | 7 | 1 | 0 |
| FY2021 | 14 | 5 | 2 |
| FY2022 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2023 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2024 | 16 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2025 | 35 | 1 | 0 |
| FY2026 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Top sponsors
- RMJV LP 25
- ALTMAN SPECIALTY PLANTS, INC 13
- HIMALAYAN TREASURES LLC 12
- DJO, LLC 11
- LEICA BIOSYSTEMS IMAGING 8
- KENTS BROMELIAD NURSERY INC 5
- Challenger Sports Corp 4
- SENSATA TECHNOLOGIES INC 2
- Watkins Manufacturing Corporation 2
- ADVANCED TRAINING SYSTEMS LLC 2
Top occupations
Industries
- Perishable Prepared Food Manufacturing 25
- All Other Miscellaneous Manufacturing 12
- Nursery and Tree Production 12
- Optical Instrument and Lens Manufacturing 8
- Surgical Appliance and Supplies Manufacturing 7
- Flower, Nursery Stock, and Florists' Supplies Merchant Wholesalers 6
- Sports and Recreation Instruction 4
- Full-Service Restaurants 3
- Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufacturing 3
- Instruments and Related Products Manufacturing for Measuring, Displaying, and Controlling Industrial Process Variables 2
Countries of citizenship
- Brazil 14
- India 13
- Mexico 10
- Ecuador 6
- South Korea 5
- France 4
- China 3
- United Kingdom 3
- Iran 2
- Philippines 2
Worker's education
- None 27
- Bachelor's 23
- Master's 19
- High School 2
- Doctorate 1
- Other 1
Visa held when filed
- H-1B 34
- L-1 6
- E-2 6
- F-1 5
- F-2 3
- TN 2
- TPS 1
H-1B in Vista, CA
210 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 197 (94%). 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
- BACHEM AMERICAS, INC. 6
- Hummingbird TekSystems Inc 5
- Watkins Manufacturing Corporation 4
- PHYCOVAX INC 3
- rjt-compuquest-inc 3
- APP STUDIO 35 INC. 2
- Applied Membranes, Inc. 2
- Automated Engineering Services, Inc. 2
- BackOffice Associates, LLC d/b/a Syniti 2
- cognizant-technology-solutions-us-corporation 2
Jobs, certified LCAs since FY2024
- Software Developers 13
- Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 7
- Mechanical Engineers 6
- Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 5
- Data Warehousing Specialists 4
- Manufacturing Engineers 4
- Computer Systems Analysts 3
- Management Analysts 3
- Chemists 3
- Molecular and Cellular Biologists 2
Where Vista, CA sits
- County
- San Diego County
- Census places Vista city in it
- Metro area
- San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA
- Metropolitan statistical area
- DOL wage area
- San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA
- The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27
111.9 is BEA's price level for the San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 179.3. A salary here buys about 89% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.
- Packers and Packagers, Hand25 PERM decisions
- Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse17 PERM decisions
- Industrial Engineers5 PERM decisions
- Mechanical Engineers4 PERM decisions
- Recreation Workers4 PERM decisions
- Marketing Managers4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Packers and Packagers, Hand | $36,890 | $35,110 | $37,274 | $39,458 | $41,621 |
| Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse | $37,190 | $35,422 | $37,398 | $39,395 | $41,371 |
| Industrial Engineers | $119,050 | $81,765 | $100,922 | $120,058 | $139,214 |
| Mechanical Engineers | $121,750 | $86,154 | $105,186 | $124,238 | $143,270 |
| Recreation Workers | $40,380 | $37,170 | $39,874 | $42,578 | $45,282 |
| Marketing Managers | $174,840 | $112,195 | $152,090 | $191,984 | $231,878 |
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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