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PERM occupation, SOC 15-1199, #22 of 1,410 by filings

Computer Occupations, All Other

Biggest sponsor
COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS US CORPORATION · 19% of its filings
Busiest state
TX · 32% of its filings
Major group
Computer and mathematical · SOC 15

Weighing an offer for this job?

Where it falls among certified offers, and the four wage levels DOL sets for it by area.

Compare my offer DOL's wage levels for this job

This rate is level with the field

Over 2,592 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 4.5% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Median wage

$114,234

all PERM $103,272

Filings

2,605

#22 of 1,410

Approval

96.3%

field 96.8%

Median days

363

114 faster than the field

What it pays

Where its median offer sits among every occupation, then the whole ladder of certified offers by year and by state.

Position in the field 535 occupations with 30+ decided

Median offered wage

$114,234above 76%

$18k $500k

Approval rate

96.3%ahead of 48%

49% 100%

Median days to decision

363 daysahead of 99%

323d 536d
Each bar counts occupations at that value. More
Each bar counts occupations at that value. PERM runs two labour markets through one process, which is why the wage axis is two humps rather than a bell. The line marks this one.
DOL PERM disclosure files
The same job, state by state 2 states filing enough of this occupation to publish a ladder
  • 5th to 95th
  • 25th to 75th
  • Median
  • 10th and 90th

  1. TX

    $84,802 median · 826 certified cases

  2. CA

    $152,000 median · 375 certified cases

$100k$150k$200k
One SOC code, one federal process, and a wage range that moves with the state. More
One SOC code, one federal process, and a wage range that moves with the state. A state is included only when it files enough certified cases of this occupation to support seven percentiles; the rest are left out rather than drawn thin.
DOL PERM disclosure files, certified cases only

Who files it

The sponsors and firms with the most PERM filings under this code, the places the work sits, and who the workers were.

Sponsors filing it

  1. COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS US CORPORATION 494 filings · 100.0% approved
  2. AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC 249 filings · 99.6% approved
  3. ATOS SYNTEL INC 83 filings · 100.0% approved
  4. AMAZON WEB SERVICES, INC. 73 filings · 100.0% approved
  5. TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITED 68 filings · 100.0% approved
  6. IBM CORPORATION 50 filings · 100.0% approved
How this is counted

The employers with the most applications under this code. 1,017 of 2,605 filings, 39% of the total.

Firms filing it

  1. Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen Loewy, LLP 727 filings · 98.5% approved
  2. Berry Appleman Leiden LLP 189 filings · 94.2% approved
  3. Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak Stewart, P.C. 121 filings · 96.6% approved
  4. Seyfarth Shaw LLP 51 filings · 98.0% approved
  5. Farrell LLP 48 filings · 100.0% approved
  6. Global Immigration Associates, P.C. 45 filings · 97.8% approved
How this is counted

The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 1,181 of 2,605 filings, 45% of the total.

Where the jobs are

  • Texas 833
  • California 405
  • Washington 251
  • New York 198
  • New Jersey 143
  • Virginia 124
How this is counted

The worksite state on the application, which is where the job is and not where the company is headquartered. Volume by state across everyone is on the state map. These 6 states cover 1,954 of 2,605 filings.

Where the work is

  • College Station, TX 495
  • Seattle, WA 210
  • New York, NY 130
  • Irving, TX 109
  • Sunnyvale, CA 81
  • Austin, TX 76
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 1,101 of 2,605 filings.

Who filled these jobs, FY2016 to FY2023

From DOL's old form; the form in use since mid-2023 doesn't carry them. Top six of each.

Country of citizenship

  • India 37,244
  • China 1,669
  • Canada 559
  • Mexico 320
  • Brazil 252
  • Nepal 251

Worker's education

  • Bachelor's 23,014
  • Master's 19,458
  • Other 777
  • None 532
  • Doctorate 151
  • Associate's 62

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 37,016
  • L-1 3,050
  • NOT IN USA 1,080
  • F-1 889
  • TN 333
  • H-4 310

Schools

  • ANNA UNIVERSITY 2,313
  • JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 1,905
  • UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS 888
  • OSMANIA UNIVERSITY 806
  • UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI 682
  • UNIVERSITY OF PUNE 646

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 5,233
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 4,355
  • INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 2,294
  • ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 2,253
  • ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING 1,942
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 1,728

The job itself

What O*NET says the work is, what the market pays it by BLS's survey, its outlook, and DOL's wage levels year by year.

What the job pays outside PERM BLS, DOL wage year 2021-22
  • College Station-Bryan, TX
    College Station
  • Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA
    Seattle
  • New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ
    New York
  • Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX
    Irving
  • San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA
    Sunnyvale
$50k$100k$150k
  • 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, by area
Area BLS median Level I Level II Level III Level IV
College Station-Bryan, TX — $42,744 $56,763 $70,782 $84,802
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $58,094 $78,562 $99,008 $119,475
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $45,282 $69,826 $94,349 $118,893
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $58,178 $76,856 $95,555 $114,234
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA — $89,648 $116,043 $142,438 $168,834
How these figures fit together

BLS surveys employers on what they pay everyone in a job; DOL builds its four levels from the same survey a year later (the July 2026 wage year uses BLS's May 2025 estimates). DOL publishes levels by area, not nationally, so the United States line has none. Levels are hourly in DOL's tables; here they're shown a year at 2,080 hours, as DOL computes them. The metros are the ones holding the most of this job's PERM filings, placed by Census's county files.

The block is the middle half of what employers report paying everyone in this job, citizen or not; the ticks under it are DOL's four prevailing wage levels for that metro, the floors a PERM or H-1B offer is held to. More
The block is the middle half of what employers report paying everyone in this job, citizen or not; the ticks under it are DOL's four prevailing wage levels for that metro, the floors a PERM or H-1B offer is held to. The marker on the national line is the median PERM offer above.
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics; DOL OFLC wage tables

Against other jobs

Where this sits in the ranking

Ranked 22 of 1,410 by volume: 21 filed at least as many filings, and 1,388 filed no more.

Just above
Packers and Packagers, Hand 2,625 filings
Just below
Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers 2,590 filings

Other computer and mathematical roles

Occupations sharing this one's SOC major group, which is carried in the first two digits of the code. More

Occupations sharing this one's SOC major group, which is carried in the first two digits of the code. Wages inside a group still swing hard, because the group holds every seniority level and every metro.

The same job on H-1B

187,209 certified H-1B labor condition applications for this occupation since FY2020, offering a median of $94,578 a year; the middle half ran $75,800 to $118,755. By state and year in the salary explorer.

Notes on these numbers

Reading the wage

A floor, not a salary survey: every level and metro mixed. DOL's four wage levels for this job, by area.

What the median is

The median wage employers committed to in federal filings for this occupation. It mixes every experience level and every metro, and it's a floor: the employer must offer at least the prevailing wage DOL determines for the occupation, level and county. Across all PERM filings the middle half of offered wages runs $45,178 to $141,357, so a figure inside that band is unremarkable whichever occupation it belongs to. The levels page reads DOL's OFLC wage search live.

What these numbers don't say

4 notes
The code is the identity
This one is SOC 15-1199. Two SOC codes can carry the same job title, so a title that looks duplicated on the ranking is two different occupations. Match on the code when you're checking a specific filing.
A median isn’t an offer
It's the middle of all 2,605 wages committed to for this occupation across the country, entry level and principal alike. The same role's medians swing hard by worksite, which the state map shows directly.
Approval isn’t about the occupation
The denial rate moves with what happened in the filing rather than with the job title, so nothing here is a property of Computer Occupations, All Other. The measured factors are on the denial risk page, published as separate rates.
Nothing here is pending
All 2,605 counted here carry a decision date, because every case in DOL's disclosure files does, so a case still waiting is in none of them. The largest filer of this occupation is COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS US CORPORATION. Where the queue stands today is on the processing times page.

The window these figures cover: DOL's PERM disclosure files for fiscal years 2024 to 2026, through the third quarter of 2026, 373,939 decided cases. Nothing pending is counted here. How each figure is built

Weighing an offer?

Compare it against this median, then check the state map, where the same occupation's medians swing hard by worksite.

Setting one?

All 1,410 occupations sort together on the wages page, and denial rates show how outcome moves with the offered wage.

Filings newer than DOL's last published file can't be attributed to this occupation until DOL publishes them. The live list on the case search page carries them by employer.

Case data: DOL quarterly disclosure files (flag.dol.gov) · data through Jun 30, 2026 · quarterly

Employers and firms: Derived from the disclosure corpus · data through Aug 26, 2026 · rebuilt with each quarterly ingest

O*NET occupation data: O*NET Database, USDOL/ETA (onetcenter.org) · data through Aug 16, 2026 · twice a year

BLS market pay: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (bls.gov) · data through May 31, 2025 · yearly, each spring

BLS employment projections: BLS Employment Projections (bls.gov) · data through Dec 31, 2025 · yearly, each autumn

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.

Employers and firms: Employers, law firms and occupations ranked from decided cases only.

O*NET occupation data: What O*NET says each occupation is and takes: its description, tasks, Job Zone and the education workers report. A description of the job everywhere, not of any one employer's opening.

BLS market pay: What employers report paying everyone in each job, nationally, by state and by metro, from BLS's yearly survey (May of the year named). Citizens and immigrants alike; not PERM offers.

BLS employment projections: BLS's ten-year projection of each job's employment and yearly openings, and the entry education it calls typical. A projection, not a count.

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. The floors an offer is held to, not what anyone was paid.

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