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PERM Tracker

From DOL's own disclosure files

PERM filings, state by state

Every certified, denied and withdrawn case in the current disclosure window, placed at its worksite state. Hover a state to read it, tap to pin it.

Filings 51 67,742 55 of 55 shaded

The whole country

361,922 PERM filings across 55 states and territories in the current disclosure window, 332,545 certified. Hovering or tapping a state shows its own numbers.

Every state, ranked

Every column sorts, every region filters, and the whole set downloads as a CSV. Approval rate never appears without the decided count behind it, because a rate is only worth what its denominator is.

All 55 states and territories

Every state and territory with PERM filings, certifications, denials, withdrawals, approval rate, median days and median offered wage
1 California CA 67,742 63,807 96.6% $141,378
2 Texas TX 38,830 37,133 97.0% $108,675
3 New York NY 27,361 26,003 97.8% $138,590
4 Georgia GA 22,844 22,141 97.6% $30,202
5 Florida FL 18,685 17,605 95.1% $57,397
6 New Jersey NJ 18,230 17,339 96.1% $109,500
7 Washington WA 15,746 14,687 98.3% $143,700
8 Illinois IL 15,122 14,326 97.4% $101,213
9 Massachusetts MA 12,404 11,657 97.4% $118,330
10 North Carolina NC 10,338 9,789 97.3% $100,861
11 Virginia VA 10,012 9,562 96.8% $106,504
12 Pennsylvania PA 9,085 8,708 96.3% $87,360
13 Michigan MI 9,084 8,639 96.3% $100,940
14 Ohio OH 8,435 8,047 96.5% $52,291
15 Wisconsin WI 7,516 7,234 98.5% $37,440
16 Arizona AZ 5,001 4,736 95.8% $100,000
17 Alabama AL 4,986 4,788 98.2% $23,920
18 Minnesota MN 4,451 4,279 98.2% $95,326
19 Tennessee TN 4,248 3,945 90.0% $45,802
20 Missouri MO 4,195 4,022 93.3% $72,342
21 Maryland MD 4,128 3,961 95.0% $96,720
22 Indiana IN 3,851 3,666 97.9% $64,000
23 Colorado CO 3,621 3,415 97.0% $90,443
24 Utah UT 3,262 3,105 95.9% $64,954
25 South Carolina SC 3,125 2,936 95.7% $32,032
26 Oregon OR 3,087 2,937 98.4% $100,785
27 Connecticut CT 2,175 2,059 97.9% $115,000
28 Arkansas AR 2,133 2,060 97.2% $88,000
29 Kansas KS 1,798 1,708 97.0% $49,795
30 Iowa IA 1,721 1,640 97.1% $66,000
31 Nebraska NE 1,701 1,632 96.8% $57,000
32 Nevada NV 1,484 1,413 97.2% $57,554
33 Louisiana LA 1,446 1,358 96.8% $41,600
34 Delaware DE 1,439 1,386 97.7% $120,000
35 Kentucky KY 1,407 1,325 94.0% $94,475
36 District of Columbia DC 1,285 1,194 95.8% $110,240
37 New Hampshire NH 1,048 1,015 97.4% $58,427
38 Oklahoma OK 1,045 983 93.2% $58,000
39 South Dakota SD 1,011 978 98.4% $35,360
40 Rhode Island RI 897 856 98.7% $112,692
41 North Dakota ND 793 752 91.8% $44,200
42 Idaho ID 759 719 96.4% $56,361
43 New Mexico NM 677 630 95.1% $79,571
44 Guam GU 579 550 95.6% $38,563
45 Mississippi MS 527 497 94.6% $52,520
46 Maine ME 425 401 98.5% $56,014
47 Montana MT 375 363 93.7% $36,504
48 Hawaii HI 359 335 93.7% $57,637
49 Alaska AK 311 295 98.3% $32,082
50 Vermont VT 272 247 93.9% $41,600
51 West Virginia WV 260 246 99.2% $84,046
52 Northern Mariana Islands MP 251 233 78.5% $31,574
53 Wyoming WY 159 144 88.9% $35,838
54 Puerto Rico PR 145 135 86.7% $46,883
55 U.S. Virgin Islands VI 51 28 71.4% $47,840

Cases in this window

373,939

Unique cases across the unioned quarterly files, de-duplicated by case number.

Busiest state

CA

67,742 filings, more than the 27 smallest states put together.

Why states differ

DOL works one national queue, so median days barely move by state. Volume and wages move a lot, which is industry mix. The methodology sets out both.

What each state actually files

Shaded by volume, PERM looks like one national software program. It isn't. Here is the share of each state's filings sitting in its single biggest occupation, and in its single biggest employer, with the case counts behind both. Alabama is the extreme: 62.7% of its 4,986 filings are meat, poultry, and fish cutters and trimmers.

Concentrated in

  • Alabama

    3,127 of 4,986

    62.7%

    Occupation Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers

  • Washington

    6,944 of 15,746

    44.1%

    Occupation Software Developers

  • Delaware

    481 of 1,439

    33.4%

    Occupation Software Developers

  • Rhode Island

    272 of 897

    30.3%

    Occupation Software Developers

  • Texas

    11,637 of 38,830

    30.0%

    Occupation Software Developers

  • Montana

    111 of 375

    29.6%

    Occupation Cleaners of Vehicles and Equipment

  • New Jersey

    5,399 of 18,230

    29.6%

    Occupation Software Developers

  • Arkansas

    618 of 2,133

    29.0%

    Occupation Software Developers

  • Vermont

    74 of 272

    27.2%

    Occupation Fast Food and Counter Workers

  • South Dakota

    274 of 1,011

    27.1%

    Occupation Packers and Packagers, Hand

  • Wisconsin

    1,984 of 7,516

    26.4%

    Occupation Team Assemblers

  • Georgia

    6,007 of 22,844

    26.3%

    Occupation Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers

Every state's biggest occupation and biggest employer

DOL prints the same firm under several spellings, so these are grouped on the identity behind the name rather than the name itself. Washington's leader is one company written two ways, which ranked as two until they were merged.

All 55 states

Every state's biggest occupation and biggest employer, with each one's share of the state
California 67,742 Software Developers 25.6%
Texas 38,830 Software Developers 30.0%
New York 27,361 Software Developers 16.3%
Georgia 22,844 Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers 26.3%
Florida 18,685 Software Developers 9.6%
New Jersey 18,230 Software Developers 29.6%
Washington 15,746 Software Developers 44.1%
Illinois 15,122 Software Developers 19.7%
Massachusetts 12,404 Software Developers 20.3%
North Carolina 10,338 Software Developers 22.8%
Virginia 10,012 Software Developers 25.7%
Pennsylvania 9,085 Software Developers 18.8%
Michigan 9,084 Software Developers 23.1%
Ohio 8,435 Software Developers 15.1%
Wisconsin 7,516 Team Assemblers 26.4%
Arizona 5,001 Software Developers 19.2%
Alabama 4,986 Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers 62.7%
Minnesota 4,451 Software Developers 20.7%
Tennessee 4,248 Nursing Assistants 11.7%
Missouri 4,195 Software Developers 19.5%
Maryland 4,128 Software Developers 21.0%
Indiana 3,851 Helpers--Production Workers 17.4%
Colorado 3,621 Software Developers 15.9%
Utah 3,262 Software Developers 12.4%
South Carolina 3,125 Fast Food and Counter Workers 23.9%

Reading a rate off a small state

The smallest jurisdictions decide a couple of dozen cases in a whole window, where one denial swings a rate by several points. Those stay uncoloured on rates and medians. Drop the floor to nothing and they come back, with the same denominator beside them in the table. Denial rates ranked with a 95% range on each are on the denial rates page.

Waiting on a case here?

The state doesn’t change your place in line. The filing month does. The decision estimator reads your month against the live queue.

Filing them?

Benchmark a case against the national medians, then track its deadlines. Free account.

The basics

Is PERM faster in some states?

No. DOL works one national queue, oldest filings first, so the worksite state changes the wage and the volume, not the wait. The differences on this page are about industry concentration, not a faster line.

Case data: DOL quarterly disclosure files (flag.dol.gov) · data through Jun 30, 2026 · quarterly