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PERM occupation, SOC 15-1034, #476 of 1,410 by filings
Software Developers, Non RD SOC 151295
- Biggest sponsor
- COREWELL HEALTH · 6% of its filings
- Busiest state
- CA · 15% 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
$104,000
all PERM $103,272
Filings
47
#476 of 1,410
Approval
87.2%
field 96.8%
Median days
387
90 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
$104,000above 70%
Approval rate
87.2%ahead of 10%
Median days to decision
387 daysahead of 84%
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
- COREWELL HEALTH 3 filings
- MEMORIAL SLOANKETTERING CANCER CENTER 3 filings
- PROVIDENCE HEALTH SERVICES 3 filings
- UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES 3 filings
- WESTERN GOVERNORS UNIVERSITY 3 filings
- WGU Corporation fka Western Governors University 3 filings
How this is counted
The employers with the most applications under this code. 18 of 47 filings, 38% of the total.
Firms filing it
- Kirton McConkie 6 filings
- Ware Immigration 5 filings
- Wolfsdorf Rosenthal LLP 4 filings
- Bordeau Noulles LLC 2 filings
- Kempster, Corcoran, Quiceno LenzCalvo, LTD 2 filings
- Klasko Immigration Law Partners, LLP. 2 filings
How this is counted
The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 21 of 47 filings, 45% of the total.
Where the jobs are
- California 7
- Utah 6
- New York 5
- Illinois 4
- Michigan 4
- Ohio 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 29 of 47 filings.
Where the work is
- Salt Lake City, UT 6
- New York, NY 5
- Chicago, IL 4
- Grand Rapids, MI 3
- Renton, WA 3
- Baton Rouge, LA 2
How this is counted
The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 23 of 47 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 729
- China 62
- Nepal 18
- Canada 13
- Iran 13
- Mexico 11
Worker's education
- Master's 572
- Bachelor's 383
- Doctorate 15
- Other 9
- Associate's 4
- None 3
Visa held when filed
- H-1B 930
- F-1 23
- H-4 5
- NOT IN USA 3
- TN 3
- G-4 2
Schools
- JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 40
- ANNA UNIVERSITY 29
- BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY 17
- UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI 14
- OSMANIA UNIVERSITY 12
- UNIVERSITY OF PUNE 12
Fields of study
- COMPUTER SCIENCE 308
- COMPUTER ENGINEERING 79
- INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 48
- ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 41
- COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING 34
- COMPUTER APPLICATIONS 33
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 476 of 1,410 by volume: 475 filed at least as many filings, and 934 filed no more.
- Just above
- File Clerks 47 filings
- Just below
- Tax Preparers 46 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.
- #480 Actuaries 45 filings · none denied
- #518 Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 36 filings · 5 denied
- #526 Blockchain Engineers 34 filings · 1 denied
- #532 Document Management Specialists 32 filings · none denied
- #405 Geographic Information Systems Technologists and Technicians 64 filings · 2 denied
- #559 Information Technology Project Managers 27 filings · none denied
The same job on H-1B
1,240 certified H-1B labor condition applications for this occupation since FY2020, offering a median of $97,427 a year; the middle half ran $80,246 to $110,802. 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 15-1034. 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 47 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 Software Developers, Non RD SOC 151295. The measured factors are on the denial risk page, published as separate rates.
- Nothing here is pending
- All 47 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 COREWELL HEALTH. 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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