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PERM occupation, SOC 15-1218, #600 of 1,410 by filings

Computer Systems Analysts, R&D

Biggest sponsor
Educational Testing Service · 14% of its filings
Busiest state
CA · 23% 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

Too few cases for a rate

22 decided filings: too few for an approval rate.

Why

Across every PERM case DOL decided in this window, 3.20% were denied. At that rate a file this size comes back clean most of the time whatever the occupation did, so a percentage would be a fact about how few cases there are. Telling a clean record apart from the field takes about 117 decided cases.

Median wage

$101,334

all PERM $103,272

Filings

22

#600 of 1,410

Approval

Not shown

withheld: 22 decided

Median days

498

21 slower 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

$101,334median of 22 filings, too few decided to rank

$18k $500k

Approval rate

not shownunder 30 decided

49% 100%

Median days to decision

498 daysmiddle of 22 decided, too few to rank

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. This occupation has 22 decided cases, so its wage and its median days are marked but left unranked, and no approval rate is drawn at all.
DOL PERM disclosure files

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. Educational Testing Service 3 filings
  2. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 2 filings
  3. Arizona State University 1 filings
  4. California State University, Dominguez Hills 1 filings
  5. Corewell Health (formerly Spectrum Health System) 1 filings
  6. Eastern Illinois University 1 filings
How this is counted

The employers with the most applications under this code. 9 of 22 filings, 41% of the total.

Firms filing it

  1. Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP 3 filings
  2. Morgan Lewis and Bockius LLP 3 filings
  3. BERRY APPLEMAN & LEIDEN LLP 2 filings
  4. Connell Foley LLP 1 filings
  5. Corporate Immigration Partners, P.C. 1 filings
  6. Cowan Miller & Lederman 1 filings
How this is counted

The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 11 of 22 filings, 50% of the total.

Where the jobs are

  • California 5
  • New Jersey 5
  • Michigan 2
  • Minnesota 2
  • Texas 2
  • Arizona 1
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 17 of 22 filings.

Where the work is

  • Princeton, NJ 3
  • Berkeley, CA 2
  • Palo Alto, CA 2
  • Albuquerque, NM 1
  • Carson, CA 1
  • Charlottesville, VA 1
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 10 of 22 filings.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Star-Ledger

    4 cases

  2. The Mercury News

    2 cases

  3. The New York Times

    2 cases

  4. Albuquerque Journal

    1 cases

  5. The Arizona Republic

    1 cases

  6. Bay Area News Group

    1 cases
How this is counted

The newspaper or professional journal named for each case's two print ads, one count per paper per case, however the filer spelled it.

Additional steps it used

  1. Job search websites

    21 cases

  2. Local or ethnic newspapers

    15 cases

  3. The employer's website

    14 cases

  4. Employee referral programs

    6 cases

  5. Campus placement offices

    4 cases

  6. Radio or TV ads

    4 cases
How this is counted

The steps a professional job needs beyond the job order and the ads, by the number of cases that name each.

How long before filing it began

  1. Under 30 days

    0.0%

  2. 30 to 59 days

    0.0%

  3. 60 to 89 days

    27%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    9.1%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    18%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    45%

  7. Over 180 days

    0.0%
How this is counted

Days from the first recruitment step to the filing. 20 C.F.R. § 656.17(e) puts the job order and ads 30 to 180 days before filing.

Where every PERM employer recruits

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.

Against other jobs

Where this sits in the ranking

Ranked 600 of 1,410 by volume: 599 filed at least as many filings, and 810 filed no more.

Just above
Computer User Support Specialists 23 filings
Just below
Nanosystems Engineers 22 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

75 certified H-1B labor condition applications for this occupation since FY2020, offering a median of $78,951 a year; the middle half ran $71,235 to $99,441. 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 15-1218. 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 22 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 Systems Analysts, R&D. The measured factors are on the denial risk page, published as separate rates.
Nothing here is pending
All 22 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 Educational Testing Service. 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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