Calculators
PERM calculators
7 calculators that take your dates and answer about your case, and 2 explorers that describe the field you filed into. All free, all on data the government publishes.
Which one answers your question?
| Your situation | Ask | Use |
|---|---|---|
| Wage request filed, nothing since | How many are ahead of mine? | Prevailing wage queue |
| Determination in hand, planning recruitment | By when must we file? | Deadline calculator |
| ETA-9089 filed, waiting | When will DOL decide? | Decision estimator |
| PERM certified, I-140 next or pending | How deep is USCIS's queue? | I-140 queue |
| I-140 approved, waiting to adjust status | How deep is the green card queue at my priority date? | I-485 queue position |
| I-140 approved, watching the bulletin | Is my date current, and which way is it moving? | Priority dates |
| Just starting, or explaining it to someone | How long is the whole thing? | Green card timeline |
| Writing the job offer, before any of the above | What does this role pay here? | Salary explorer |
| Weighing EB-2 against EB-3 | Which category is USCIS clearing? | I-140 trends |
PERM processing time calculator
When DOL is likely to decide a case filed in a given month, from its published queue position and its record of cases already decided.
OpenPrevailing wage queue calculator
How many wage requests sit ahead of yours, from the pending count DOL publishes.
OpenI-140 queue calculator
How many petitions are waiting in your category against how fast USCIS clears them, next to the processing time USCIS publishes.
OpenI-485 queue position
How many employment-based adjustment applications USCIS had pending ahead of a priority date. USCIS withholds its smallest counts, so the answer is a floor and a ceiling.
OpenPriority date calculator
Where a priority date sits against the visa bulletin, and which way the cutoff has moved, including the months it moved backwards.
OpenGreen card timeline
Every stage drawn to scale, from the wage queue to the wait for a visa number, marked by which are fixed by regulation, which are queues, and which have no published figure.
OpenAnd the field you filed into
These two ask nothing about your case. They describe what everyone else's looks like, which is what tells you whether a wage or a category is ordinary.
Why some of these refuse to give you a number
A queue estimate is a forecast. Where DOL publishes enough to be sure, you get a figure and its source. Where it doesn’t, you get the count that’s real and a plain statement of what’s missing. The deadline calculator is the exception: those dates are arithmetic in the regulations, so they’re exact.
Public estimators disagree with each other by months on the same filing date. How we compute ours, and why they differ.
The basics
Are these estimates or deadlines?
Both live here, and they are different things. The timeline tools estimate from measured queues and say so, with their spread shown; the deadline calculator computes the regulatory dates themselves (20 CFR 656), which are not estimates at all.
Why does a tool sometimes refuse to answer?
Because the honest answer is sometimes "too early to say". A filing month DOL has barely started can't support a median, and a nearly-finished one is dominated by audits with a different clock - so the tools withhold there instead of printing a confident wrong number. The methodology page documents every rule.