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PERM occupation, SOC 15-1255.00, #72 of 1,410 by filings
Web and Digital Interface Designers
- Biggest sponsor
- Microsoft Corporation · 3% of its filings
- Busiest state
- CA · 44% 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
$129,846
all PERM $103,272
Filings
852
#72 of 1,410
Approval
98.5%
field 96.8%
Median days
477
at the field median
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
$129,846above 84%
Approval rate
98.5%ahead of 75%
Median days to decision
477 daysahead of 48%
Each bar counts occupations at that value. More
- 5th to 95th
- 25th to 75th
- Median
- 10th and 90th
FY2024
$138,000 median · 65 certified cases
FY2025
$123,750 median · 347 certified cases
FY2026
$129,746 median · 366 certified cases
- 10th
- $75,000
- -6.9% since FY2024
- Median
- $129,746
- -6.0% since FY2024
- 90th
- $188,276
- +2.9% since FY2024
- 95th
- $205,975
- +8.5% since FY2024
These years are not measuring the same group of filings. The count moves by 5.6 times between the largest year and the smallest, so a change in the ladder is at least partly a change in which employers filed rather than a change in what the work pays. Read the shape, not the difference.
| Fiscal year | Cases | 5th | 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024 | 65 | $66,416 | $80,563 | $105,000 | $138,000 | $161,200 | $183,000 | $189,828 |
| FY2025 | 347 | $53,568 | $69,200 | $95,225 | $123,750 | $151,900 | $180,000 | $199,202 |
| FY2026 | 366 | $63,923 | $75,000 | $101,130 | $129,746 | $156,770 | $188,276 | $205,975 |
A median answers whether pay moved. 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
- Microsoft Corporation 29 filings
- Cisco Systems, Inc. 28 filings
- ByteDance Inc. 21 filings
- Intuit Inc. 15 filings
- ServiceNow, Inc. 14 filings
- Adobe Inc. 13 filings
How this is counted
The employers with the most applications under this code. 120 of 852 filings, 14% of the total.
Firms filing it
- FRAGOMEN, DEL REY, BERNSEN & LOEWY, LLP 167 filings · 100.0% approved
- Berry Appleman & Leiden LLP 89 filings · 98.7% approved
- Corporate Immigration Partners, P.C. 45 filings · 100.0% approved
- Erickson Immigration Group 39 filings · 97.4% approved
- Tafapolsky & Smith LLP 37 filings · 100.0% approved
- Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. 25 filings
How this is counted
The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 402 of 852 filings, 47% of the total.
Where the jobs are
- California 376
- New York 115
- Texas 69
- Washington 57
- Massachusetts 37
- New Jersey 27
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 681 of 852 filings.
Where the work is
- San Francisco, CA 109
- New York, NY 91
- San Jose, CA 69
- Redmond, WA 27
- Santa Clara, CA 22
- Sunnyvale, CA 21
How this is counted
The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 339 of 852 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
Newspapers it advertised in
- 146 cases
San Francisco Chronicle
- 124 cases
The Mercury News
- 97 cases
The New York Times
- 53 cases
The Seattle Times
- 39 cases
Los Angeles Times
- 33 cases
The Dallas Morning News
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
- 713 cases
Job search websites
- 639 cases
Local or ethnic newspapers
- 306 cases
The employer's website
- 220 cases
Trade or professional organizations
- 213 cases
Radio or TV ads
- 169 cases
Employee referral programs
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
- 0.0%
Under 30 days
- 0.0%
30 to 59 days
- 25%
60 to 89 days
- 27%
90 to 119 days
- 20%
120 to 149 days
- 27%
150 to 180 days
- 0.1%
Over 180 days
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.
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.
- United States113,330 jobs
- San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CASan Jose, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale
- San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CASan Francisco
- New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJNew York
- Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WARedmond
- middle half of pay (BLS)
- median
- 10th to 90th percentile
- DOL's Levels I to IV, left to right
- median PERM offer
| Area | BLS median | Level I | Level II | Level III | Level IV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | $104,000 | ||||
| San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA | $201,260 | $128,336 | $164,320 | $200,304 | $236,288 |
| San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA | $163,810 | $93,725 | $127,546 | $161,387 | $195,208 |
| New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ | $119,190 | $77,459 | $103,688 | $129,938 | $156,166 |
| Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA | $133,760 | $65,957 | $101,837 | $137,717 | $173,597 |
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
DOL's levels for this job in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA, year by year
Each July DOL resets the four levels from BLS's newest survey. A determination keeps the figures of the year it was issued in.
| Wage year | Level I | Level II | Level III | Level IV |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | $128,336 | $164,320 | $200,304 | $236,288 |
| 2025-26 | $113,630 | $156,915 | $200,221 | $243,506 |
| 2024-25 | $114,462 | $148,845 | $183,227 | $217,610 |
| 2023-24 | $115,149 | $199,202 | $283,254 | $367,307 |
| 2022-23 | $82,888 | $110,178 | $137,446 | $164,736 |
What the job is
Design digital user interfaces or websites. Develop and test layouts, interfaces, functionality, and navigation menus to ensure compatibility and usability across browsers or devices. May use web framework applications as well as client-side code and processes. May evaluate web design following web and accessibility standards, and may analyze web use metrics and optimize websites for marketability and search engine ranking. May design and test interfaces that facilitate the human-computer interaction and maximize the usability of digital devices, websites, and software with a focus on aesthetics and design. May create graphics used in websites and manage website content and links.
- Preparation
- Considerable Preparation Needed
- O*NET Job Zone 4
- DOL's education basis
- Bachelor's degree
- Wage year 2026-27, on DOL's Appendix A list
- Jobs, 2025 to 2035
- +6.0%
- About 8,300 openings a year (BLS)
- Typical entry
- Bachelor's degree
- BLS
Bright Outlook O*NET OnLine lists this job for rapid growth.
The work, most important first
- Identify problems uncovered by testing or customer feedback, and correct problems or refer problems to appropriate personnel for correction.
- Design, build, or maintain Web sites, using authoring or scripting languages, content creation tools, management tools, and digital media.
- Write supporting code for Web applications or Web sites.
- Perform Web site tests according to planned schedules, or after any Web site or product revision.
- Collaborate with web development professionals, such as front-end or back-end developers, to complete the full scope of Web development projects.
- Develop new visual design concepts and modify concepts based on stakeholder feedback.
Titles people use for it
Web Architect, Web Design Specialist, Web Designer, Webmaster, UI Developer (User Interface Developer), UX Developer (User Experience Developer), UX Engineer (User Experience Engineer), Web Administration Coordinator (Web Admin Coordinator).
O*NET also describes Video Game Designers under this SOC code.
Related jobs: Web Developers, Web Administrators, Software Developers, Computer Programmers, Computer Systems Engineers/Architects, Database Administrators.
This section includes information from the O*NET 31.0 Database and O*NET OnLine by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. PERM Tracker has modified some of this information (the shares are rounded and only the top tasks are shown); what changed. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications.
Against other jobs
Where this sits in the ranking
Ranked 72 of 1,410 by volume: 71 filed at least as many filings, and 1,338 filed no more.
- Just above
- Construction Managers 869 filings
- Just below
- Financial Managers 847 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
5,900 certified H-1B labor condition applications for this occupation since FY2020, offering a median of $100,000 a year; the middle half ran $72,790 to $144,770. 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 15-1255.00. 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 852 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 Web and Digital Interface Designers. The measured factors are on the denial risk page, published as separate rates.
- Nothing here is pending
- All 852 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 Microsoft 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 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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