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PERM jobs in Westerville, OH

Decisions
267
Approved
97.6%
Median certified wage
$102,627
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  • withdrawn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Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn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 35 0 0
FY2017 25 3 0
FY2018 25 0 1
FY2019 18 0 1
FY2020 23 0 0
FY2021 26 0 1
FY2022 12 0 0
FY2023 7 2 7
FY2024 25 0 0
FY2025 28 1 1
FY2026 25 0 1

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Industries

Countries of citizenship

  • India 133
  • Philippines 18
  • China 14
  • Brazil 7
  • Mexico 5
  • Pakistan 4
  • Nepal 4
  • Canada 3
  • South Korea 2
  • Taiwan 2

Worker's education

  • Bachelor's 98
  • Master's 86
  • Other 14
  • None 4
  • Doctorate 4
  • Associate's 3
  • High School 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 155
  • NOT IN USA 22
  • L-1 13
  • F-1 6
  • TPS 2
  • L-2 1
  • TN 1

H-1B in Westerville, OH

1,284 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 1,240 (97%). 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 174
  2. Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 73
  3. Computer Systems Analysts 30
  4. Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 27
  5. Computer Programmers 20
  6. Data Scientists 17
  7. Regulatory Affairs Specialists 16
  8. Logistics Analysts 11
  9. Network and Computer Systems Administrators 9
  10. Manufacturing Engineers 9

Where Westerville, OH sits

Counties
Delaware and Franklin counties
Census places Westerville city in both
Metro area
Columbus, OH
Metropolitan statistical area
DOL wage area
Columbus, OH
The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27

95.5 is BEA's price level for the Columbus, OH metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 87.9. A salary here buys about 105% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.

What these jobs pay in Columbus, OH BLS May 2025, DOL wage year 2026-27
  • Software Developers
    21 PERM decisions
  • Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners
    12 PERM decisions
  • Logisticians
    7 PERM decisions
  • Statisticians
    5 PERM decisions
  • Web Developers
    5 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
Software Developers $122,340 $85,800 $104,624 $123,427 $142,251
Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners $33,770 $28,392 $30,909 $33,405 $35,922
Logisticians $80,710 $57,158 $71,261 $85,342 $99,445
Statisticians $78,040 $61,942 $77,792 $93,662 $109,512
Web Developers $83,860 $54,330 $71,864 $89,378 $106,912

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

The jobs filed most in Westerville, OH: 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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