Updated
PERM jobs in Waltham, MA
- Decisions
- 2,156
- Approved
- 97.6%
- Median certified wage
- $110,240
- 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- withdrawn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| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Withdrawn |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 | 242 | 2 | 6 |
| FY2017 | 179 | 9 | 3 |
| FY2018 | 265 | 4 | 3 |
| FY2019 | 186 | 2 | 5 |
| FY2020 | 136 | 1 | 4 |
| FY2021 | 176 | 7 | 5 |
| FY2022 | 183 | 6 | 9 |
| FY2023 | 126 | 4 | 5 |
| FY2024 | 151 | 2 | 12 |
| FY2025 | 235 | 2 | 13 |
| FY2026 | 155 | 11 | 7 |
Top sponsors
Top occupations
- Software Developers, Applications 438
- Statisticians 185
- Software Developers, Systems Software 174
- Computer Systems Analysts (SOC 15-1121) 151
- Software Developers 123
- Computer Occupations, All Other 113
- Computer and Information Systems Managers 55
- Sales Engineers 46
- Marketing Managers 38
- Computer Systems Analysts (SOC 15-1211) 36
Industries
- Custom Computer Programming Services 480
- Software Publishers 236
- Computer Systems Design Services 83
- Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools 69
- Management Consulting Services 64
- Kidney Dialysis Centers 61
- Pharmaceutical and Medicine Manufacturing 57
- Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences 57
- Printing 56
- Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services 53
Countries of citizenship
Worker's education
- Master's 1,033
- Bachelor's 490
- Doctorate 110
- None 34
- Other 25
- High School 10
- Associate's 7
Visa held when filed
- H-1B 1,332
- L-1 229
- F-1 47
- NOT IN USA 23
- TN 19
- O-1 8
- PAROLEE 5
- J-2 5
- TPS 4
- B-2 3
H-1B in Waltham, MA
6,510 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 6,148 (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
Jobs, certified LCAs since FY2024
- Software Developers 567
- Data Scientists 147
- Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 115
- Molecular and Cellular Biologists 111
- Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 90
- Biochemists and Biophysicists 82
- Statisticians 73
- Manufacturing Engineers 50
- Computer Systems Analysts 49
- Computer and Information Systems Managers 49
Where Waltham, MA sits
- County
- Middlesex County
- Census places Waltham city in it
- Metro area
- Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH
- Metropolitan statistical area
- DOL wage area
- Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH
- The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27
108.3 is BEA's price level for the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 148.4. A salary here buys about 92% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.
- Statisticians185 PERM decisions
- Software Developers123 PERM decisions
- Computer and Information Systems Managers55 PERM decisions
- Sales Engineers46 PERM decisions
- Marketing Managers38 PERM decisions
- Computer Systems Analysts36 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Statisticians | $102,320 | $76,960 | $98,342 | $119,746 | $141,128 |
| Software Developers | $166,090 | $114,275 | $138,237 | $162,198 | $186,160 |
| Computer and Information Systems Managers | $214,960 | $151,570 | $185,765 | $219,960 | $254,155 |
| Sales Engineers | $136,620 | $88,608 | $113,464 | $138,299 | $163,155 |
| Marketing Managers | $213,910 | $142,064 | $179,234 | $216,403 | $253,573 |
| Computer Systems Analysts | $129,180 | $91,042 | $111,280 | $131,539 | $151,778 |
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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