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PERM jobs in West Chester, PA

Decisions
442
Approved
96.4%
Median certified wage
$92,247
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  • withdrawn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Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn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 30 0 1
FY2017 37 3 4
FY2018 42 1 0
FY2019 28 1 1
FY2020 25 5 2
FY2021 42 2 0
FY2022 46 1 1
FY2023 39 1 6
FY2024 18 1 1
FY2025 45 0 6
FY2026 53 0 0

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Countries of citizenship

  • India 187
  • China 27
  • Canada 22
  • South Korea 12
  • Mexico 10
  • Taiwan 8
  • Lithuania 6
  • Ireland 5
  • Iran 4
  • Philippines 4

Worker's education

  • Master's 166
  • Bachelor's 100
  • Doctorate 46
  • None 14
  • High School 5
  • Other 3
  • Associate's 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 282
  • L-1 13
  • F-1 11
  • TN 5
  • O-1 4
  • NOT IN USA 3
  • EWI 3
  • E-2 2
  • B-2 1
  • E-3 1

H-1B in West Chester, PA

2,604 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 2,485 (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 298
  2. Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 101
  3. Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 45
  4. Computer Programmers 35
  5. Computer and Information Systems Managers 31
  6. Computer Systems Analysts 29
  7. Data Scientists 26
  8. Rehabilitation Counselors 25
  9. Mechanical Engineers 20
  10. Actuaries 13

Where West Chester, PA sits

County
Chester County
Census places West Chester borough in it
Metro area
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD
Metropolitan statistical area
DOL wage area
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD
The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27

102.6 is BEA's price level for the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 113.1. A salary here buys about 98% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.

What these jobs pay in Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD BLS May 2025, DOL wage year 2026-27
  • Software Developers
    49 PERM decisions
  • Speech-Language Pathologists
    37 PERM decisions
  • Occupational Therapists
    16 PERM decisions
  • Actuaries
    13 PERM decisions
  • Computer and Information Systems Managers
    10 PERM decisions
  • Biochemists and Biophysicists
    10 PERM decisions
$100k$150k$200k$250k
  • 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
Software Developers $133,040 $91,874 $113,859 $135,824 $157,810
Speech-Language Pathologists $100,080 $71,344 $85,363 $99,382 $113,402
Occupational Therapists $103,140 $78,874 $91,354 $103,854 $116,334
Actuaries $127,770 $90,210 $118,310 $146,390 $174,491
Computer and Information Systems Managers $173,470 $121,909 $152,610 $183,290 $213,990
Biochemists and Biophysicists $134,090 $88,566 $110,552 $132,558 $154,544

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

The jobs filed most in West Chester, PA: 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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