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PERM occupation, SOC 15-1142, #307 of 1,410 by filings
Network and Computer Systems Administrators
- Biggest sponsor
- AMAZON WEB SERVICES, INC. · 15% of its filings
- Busiest state
- TX · 27% 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
$95,600
all PERM $103,272
Filings
99
#307 of 1,410
Approval
84.8%
field 96.8%
Median days
383
94 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
$95,600above 67%
Approval rate
84.8%ahead of 8%
Median days to decision
383 daysahead of 92%
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
- AMAZON WEB SERVICES, INC. 15 filings
- RK Infotech LLC 4 filings
- AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC 3 filings
- CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. 2 filings
- HCL AMERICA INC. 2 filings
- INNOVIT USA, INC. 2 filings
How this is counted
The employers with the most applications under this code. 28 of 99 filings, 28% of the total.
Firms filing it
- Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen Loewy, LLP 25 filings
- Farrell LLP 8 filings
- BBI Law Group P.C. 6 filings
- Berry Appleman Leiden LLP 6 filings
- Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak Stewart, P.C. 4 filings
- Greenberg Traurig, LLP 3 filings
How this is counted
The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 52 of 99 filings, 53% of the total.
Where the jobs are
- Texas 27
- California 16
- New Jersey 8
- Washington 8
- Virginia 6
- North Carolina 4
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 69 of 99 filings.
Where the work is
- Dallas, TX 8
- Seattle, WA 8
- Irving, TX 5
- Round Rock, TX 4
- San Jose, CA 3
- Austin, TX 2
How this is counted
The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 30 of 99 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 8,184
- China 326
- Mexico 188
- Canada 176
- South Korea 149
- Nepal 140
Worker's education
- Master's 5,781
- Bachelor's 4,063
- Other 290
- None 285
- Associate's 82
- High School 50
Visa held when filed
- H-1B 8,294
- L-1 868
- F-1 501
- TN 162
- NOT IN USA 98
- E-2 57
Schools
- JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 416
- ANNA UNIVERSITY 244
- OSMANIA UNIVERSITY 195
- WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY 195
- UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS 175
- NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY 160
Fields of study
- COMPUTER SCIENCE 1,471
- ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 1,279
- COMPUTER ENGINEERING 773
- ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 485
- INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 485
- TELECOMMUNICATIONS 305
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.
- Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TXDallas, Irving
- Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WASeattle
- Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TXRound Rock, Austin
- San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CASan Jose
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX | — | $64,126 | $77,022 | $89,939 | $102,835 |
| Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA | — | $71,573 | $86,237 | $100,880 | $115,544 |
| Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX | — | $57,658 | $71,531 | $85,405 | $99,278 |
| San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA | — | $85,426 | $109,845 | $134,264 | $158,683 |
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 307 of 1,410 by volume: 306 filed at least as many filings, and 1,103 filed no more.
- Just above
- Cooks, Fast Food 101 filings
- Just below
- Dispatchers, Except Police, Fire, and Ambulance 98 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.
- #314 Computer and Information Research Scientists 97 filings · 7 denied
- #324 Computer Programmers 92 filings · 14 denied
- #330 Computer Network Architects 87 filings · 10 denied
- #338 Computer Systems Analysts, Non R&D 83 filings · none denied
- #343 Software Developers, R&D 82 filings · 1 denied
- #349 Database Administrators 81 filings · 5 denied
The same job on H-1B
13,567 certified H-1B labor condition applications for this occupation since FY2020, offering a median of $87,027 a year; the middle half ran $76,800 to $104,395. 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 15-1142. 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 99 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 Network and Computer Systems Administrators. The measured factors are on the denial risk page, published as separate rates.
- Nothing here is pending
- All 99 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 AMAZON WEB SERVICES, INC.. 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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