Boston, Massachusetts
City · Massachusetts, United States
- Applications on record
- 127,719
- FY2025
- 8,435
- FY2026 to 30 June
- 6,539
- Share of U.S. total
- 1.05%
- Median offered wage (LCA)
- $120,000
Median wage$120,000certified LCAs
Year by year
Data as at 30 Jun 2026
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Applications year by year
All Department of Labor work visa applications with a worksite in Boston, Massachusetts.
Applications by fiscal year — Boston, Massachusetts
Data table
| FY2008 | 4,804 |
| FY2009 | 4,341 |
| FY2010 | 4,351 |
| FY2011 | 4,514 |
| FY2012 | 5,048 |
| FY2013 | 4,978 |
| FY2014 | 5,712 |
| FY2015 | 6,561 |
| FY2016 | 7,538 |
| FY2017 | 7,292 |
| FY2018 | 8,682 |
| FY2019 | 8,965 |
| FY2020 | 8,026 |
| FY2021 | 7,751 |
| FY2022 | 8,746 |
| FY2023 | 7,710 |
| FY2024 | 7,726 |
| FY2025 | 8,435 |
| FY2026* | 6,539 |
| Fiscal year | H-2B | LCA | PERM |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026* | 8 | 5,399 | 1,132 |
| FY2025 | 13 | 7,288 | 1,134 |
| FY2024 | 11 | 6,817 | 898 |
| FY2023 | 9 | 6,818 | 883 |
| FY2022 | 7 | 7,833 | 906 |
| FY2021 | 1 | 6,679 | 1,071 |
| FY2020 | 1 | 7,182 | 843 |
| FY2019 | 1 | 8,209 | 755 |
| FY2018 | 4 | 7,800 | 878 |
| FY2017 | 1 | 6,721 | 570 |
| FY2016 | 1 | 6,805 | 732 |
| FY2015 | 2 | 6,017 | 542 |
| FY2014 | 0 | 5,212 | 500 |
| FY2013 | 0 | 4,681 | 297 |
| FY2012 | 0 | 4,620 | 428 |
| FY2011 | 0 | 4,108 | 406 |
| FY2010 | 0 | 3,801 | 550 |
| FY2009 | 0 | 4,087 | 254 |
| FY2008 | 0 | 4,482 | 322 |
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification — disclosure data FY2008–FY2026 Q3Data as at 30 Jun 2026
Largest sponsoring employers
Employers with the most applications for jobs in Boston, Massachusetts.
- Wayfair LLC4,324
- Ernst & Young U.S. LLP3,418
- Brigham and Women's Hospital3,416
- Children's Hospital Corporation3,027
- Harvard University2,897
- Dana-farber Cancer Institute2,743
- Trustees of Boston University2,715
- General Hospital Corporation2,699
- Deloitte Consulting LLP2,341
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc.1,903
- State Street Bank and Trust Company1,861
- Northeastern University1,638
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification — disclosure data FY2008–FY2026 Q3Data as at 30 Jun 2026
Occupations and routes
SOC 2018 occupation and visa programme of the applications.
- Software Developers24,625
- Computer Systems Analysts8,745
- Computer Occupations, All Other7,073
- Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists6,346
- Physicians, All Other4,742
- Financial and Investment Analysts4,549
- Biological Scientists, All Other4,499
- Management Analysts4,470
- Accountants and Auditors4,237
- Computer Programmers3,922
- H-1B108,427
- PERM labour certification13,101
- E-3 (Australia)1,816
- H-1B1 (Singapore)371
- H-1B1 (Chile)144
- H-2B non-agricultural workers59
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification — disclosure data FY2008–FY2026 Q3Data as at 30 Jun 2026
Pay
Offered annual wages on certified labor condition applications, FY2024–FY2026.
Offered annual wage, 10th to 90th percentile (certified LCAs)
Median $120,000; middle half $90,455 to $155,538 · median prevailing wage $100,984 (marker) · 19,078 applications.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC — Labor Condition Application disclosure dataData as at 30 Jun 2026
Among cities in Massachusetts
Boston, Massachusetts ranks #1 of 278 cities in Massachusetts by work visa applications on record, with 28.62% of the applications for worksites in the state's cities that have their own page.
- Rank in Massachusetts
- 1 of 278
- Share of Massachusetts's city applications
- 28.62%
- Share of U.S. total
- 1.05%
- Boston, MA127,719
- Cambridge, MA49,213
- Waltham, MA20,980
- Burlington, MA14,764
- Natick, MA10,469
- Westborough, MA10,380
- Framingham, MA10,376
- Worcester, MA10,310
- Quincy, MA9,999
- Marlborough, MA8,564
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification — disclosure data FY2008–FY2026 Q3Data as at 30 Jun 2026
Job titles with their own pages
Titles with at least 30 labor condition applications here since FY2022.
- Analyst
- Applied Scientist II
- Architect
- Architectural Designer
- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Teaching Professor
- Associate
- Associate Director
- Associate Professor
- Associate Research Scientist
- Attending Physician
- Audit & Assurance Assistant
- Business Analyst
- Business Intelligence Analyst
- Clinical Assistant Professor
- Clinical Fellow
- Clinical Research Fellow
- Computational Biologist
- Consultant
- Data Analyst
- Data Engineer
- Data Engineer II
- Data Scientist
- Data Scientist I
- Data Scientist II
- Designer
- Devops Engineer
- Director
- Engineer II
- Financial Analyst
- Front-end Engineer II
- Full Stack Engineer
- Instructor
- Instructor (scientist)
- Instructor in Investigation
- Investigator
- Investment Analyst
- Java Developer
- Landscape Designer
- Lead Data Scientist
- Lead Software Engineer
- Lecturer
- Machine Learning Engineer
- Machine Learning Scientist II
- Manager
- Manager III, Software Development
- Market Research Analyst
- Physician
- Postdoctoral Associate
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Principal
- Principal Full Stack Engineer
- Principal Software Engineer
- Principal Software Engineer/developer
- Product Manager
- Program Manager
- Project Delivery Specialist
- Project Leader
- Project Manager
- Quantitative Analyst
- Radiologist
- Research Analyst
- Research Assistant Professor
- Research Associate
- Research Associate II
- Research Fellow
- Research Scientist
- Research Specialist
- Research Technician
- Research Technologist
- Researcher
- Resident
- Scientist
- Scientist I
- Scientist II
- Senior Analyst
- Senior Associate
- Senior Associate JC60 -computer Systems Engineers/architects
- Senior Business Analyst
- Senior Consultant
- Senior Data Analyst
- Senior Data Engineer
- Senior Data Scientist
- Senior Engineer
- Senior Full Stack Engineer
- Senior Manager
- Senior Manager, Data Science
- Senior Member of Technical Staff
- Senior Product Manager
- Senior Research Associate
- Senior Research Scientist
- Senior Software Developer
- Senior Software Engineer
- Senior Software Engineer I
- Senior Software Engineer/developer
- Senior Staff Scientist
- Senior Systems Analyst
- Software Dev Engineer I
- Software Dev Engineer II
- Software Developer
- Software Development Engineer
- Software Development Engineer I
- Software Development Engineer II
- Software Development Engineer III
- Software Engineer
- Software Engineer I
- Software Engineer II
- Software Engineer III
- Solutions Architect III
- SR. Software Engineer
- Staff Scientist
- Staff Software Engineer
- Statistician
- Systems Analyst
- Tax Consultant
- Tax Senior
- Vice President
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC — Labor Condition Application disclosure dataData as at 30 Jun 2026
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