DOL's disclosure files carry more than we were reading. Three things came out of the same quarterly ingest.
Law firms
Who files the most PERM cases. Every filing names the firm that made it, and nobody was surfacing that for the people it describes. The hundred most active firms, searchable, with volume, approval rate and median days. For an attorney this is the only public benchmark of a practice against the field.
Denial rates
What actually gets denied, cut by offered wage, by fiscal year, and by the three questions the ETA-9089 itself asks: a layoff in the six months before filing, an ownership interest, a position that isn’t full time. Denials are rare and heavily concentrated, and the page says plainly what a group rate can and can’t tell you about one case. We don’t roll these into a single risk score, because the factors aren’t independent of each other and a blended number would read as precision the data can’t support.
The wage ladder
The wages page now shows five percentiles rather than a lone median. The spread is the finding: the 25th percentile and the median sit far apart because PERM runs two labor markets through one process.
All three come from the same unioned, de-duplicated files as everything else on the data surface, and the methodology shows each figure's recipe.
