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PERM occupation, SOC 15-1131, #324 of 1,410 by filings
Computer Programmers
- Biggest sponsor
- GP TECHNOLOGIES LLC · 14% of its filings
- Busiest state
- NJ · 39% 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.
Median wage
$89,565
all PERM $103,272
Filings
92
#324 of 1,410
Approval
84.8%
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.
Median offered wage
$89,565above 64%
Approval rate
84.8%ahead of 7%
Median days to decision
363 daysahead of 99%
Each bar counts occupations at that value. More
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
- GP TECHNOLOGIES LLC 13 filings
- SIERRA CONSULTING INC 6 filings
- ADALITEK GROUP LLC 5 filings
- LTIMINDTREE LIMITED 5 filings
- BERACHAH TECHNOLOGIES 4 filings
- DIASPARK, INC 4 filings
How this is counted
The employers with the most applications under this code. 37 of 92 filings, 40% of the total.
Firms filing it
- Burgos Garritson Law 9 filings
- Chugh LLP 8 filings
- Murthy Law Firm 8 filings
- THE LAW FIRM OF SIM, PARVATHANENI AND BROWN PLLC 7 filings
- Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen Loewy, LLP 5 filings
- LAW OFFICE OF THOMAS V. ALLEN, PLLC. 5 filings
How this is counted
The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 42 of 92 filings, 46% of the total.
Where the jobs are
- New Jersey 36
- Texas 18
- California 9
- Illinois 8
- Virginia 5
- Pennsylvania 3
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 79 of 92 filings.
Where the work is
- North Brunswick, NJ 14
- Edison, NJ 12
- Irving, TX 11
- Itasca, IL 6
- Farmers Branch, TX 4
- Iselin, NJ 4
How this is counted
The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 51 of 92 filings.
- Every sponsor that files it, by state, approval rate, offered wage and time to a decision
- Every filing for it, PERM, wage requests and H-1B, case by case
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 3,063
- Ukraine 199
- China 65
- Nepal 54
- Philippines 52
- South Korea 32
Worker's education
- Bachelor's 2,021
- Master's 1,511
- None 62
- Other 35
- Associate's 19
- High School 12
Visa held when filed
- H-1B 3,037
- L-1 251
- F-1 111
- NOT IN USA 77
- H-4 11
- B-2 9
Schools
- ANNA UNIVERSITY 215
- JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 195
- UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI 105
- OSMANIA UNIVERSITY 82
- UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS 78
- UNIVERSITY OF PUNE 71
Fields of study
- COMPUTER SCIENCE 611
- COMPUTER ENGINEERING 279
- COMPUTER INFORMATION SYSTEMS 226
- ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 188
- ENGINEERING 187
- INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 184
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.
- New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJNorth Brunswick, Edison, Iselin
- Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TXIrving, Farmers Branch
- Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-INItasca
- middle half of pay (BLS)
- median
- 10th to 90th percentile
- DOL's Levels I to IV, left to right
| Area | BLS median | Level I | Level II | Level III | Level IV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ | — | $56,306 | $76,294 | $96,262 | $116,251 |
| Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX | — | $67,059 | $89,565 | $112,050 | $134,555 |
| Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN | — | $70,242 | $86,965 | $103,667 | $120,390 |
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
Against other jobs
Where this sits in the ranking
Ranked 324 of 1,410 by volume: 323 filed at least as many filings, and 1,086 filed no more.
- Just above
- Paralegals and Legal Assistants 93 filings
- Just below
- Special Education Teachers, Elementary School 90 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.
- #330 Computer Network Architects 87 filings · 10 denied
- #314 Computer and Information Research Scientists 97 filings · 7 denied
- #338 Computer Systems Analysts, Non R&D 83 filings · none denied
- #307 Network and Computer Systems Administrators 99 filings · 15 denied
- #343 Software Developers, R&D 82 filings · 1 denied
- #349 Database Administrators 81 filings · 5 denied
The same job on H-1B
27,955 certified H-1B labor condition applications for this occupation since FY2020, offering a median of $79,227 a year; the middle half ran $72,821 to $92,768. 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 15-1131. 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 92 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 Programmers. The measured factors are on the denial risk page, published as separate rates.
- Nothing here is pending
- All 92 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 GP TECHNOLOGIES LLC. 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 DOL's disclosure files · data through Jun 30, 2026 · rebuilt with each quarterly load
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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