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PERM sponsorship by city
Every worksite city with 20 or more PERM decisions since FY2016: how many, how many were approved, what they paid and who filed them.
Cities with a page
3,058
The ten busiest hold
25%
of 1,185,952 decisions
The 12 busiest, by decisions
- New York, NY 70,747
- Seattle, WA 38,996
- San Francisco, CA 33,568
- Redmond, WA 26,702
- San Jose, CA 24,665
- Mountain View, CA 23,265
- Santa Clara, CA 20,601
- Chicago, IL 20,237
- Houston, TX 17,994
- Austin, TX 17,372
- Sunnyvale, CA 17,136
- College Station, TX 14,457
All 3,058 cities
All 3,058 cities
| New York, NY | 70,747 | 97.9% | $131,997 |
| Seattle, WA | 38,996 | 99.4% | $113,000 |
| San Francisco, CA | 33,568 | 98.4% | $147,100 |
| Redmond, WA | 26,702 | 98.7% | $130,000 |
| San Jose, CA | 24,665 | 98.5% | $139,844 |
| Mountain View, CA | 23,265 | 99.3% | $132,184 |
| Santa Clara, CA | 20,601 | 98.1% | $138,500 |
| Chicago, IL | 20,237 | 97.6% | $106,995 |
| Houston, TX | 17,994 | 94.4% | $91,915 |
| Austin, TX | 17,372 | 97.9% | $115,000 |
| Sunnyvale, CA | 17,136 | 98.8% | $140,400 |
| College Station, TX | 14,457 | 99.9% | $81,765 |
| Plano, TX | 13,109 | 97.9% | $98,904 |
| Dallas, TX | 12,175 | 96.1% | $103,018 |
| Atlanta, GA | 12,140 | 97.5% | $106,434 |
| Los Angeles, CA | 11,635 | 94.4% | $72,291 |
| Irving, TX | 11,471 | 97.6% | $99,258 |
| Cupertino, CA | 10,968 | 99.5% | $147,000 |
| Boston, MA | 9,797 | 98.5% | $120,000 |
| Miami, FL | 9,674 | 88.7% | $62,504 |
| San Diego, CA | 9,504 | 97.7% | $107,328 |
| Edison, NJ | 9,431 | 97.2% | $101,800 |
| Richardson, TX | 9,166 | 98.8% | $94,307 |
| Menlo Park, CA | 8,663 | 97.6% | $145,597 |
| Palo Alto, CA | 8,547 | 98.8% | $141,378 |
| Charlotte, NC | 7,700 | 96.7% | $110,000 |
| Alpharetta, GA | 6,437 | 96.9% | $106,294 |
| Hillsboro, OR | 6,338 | 98.1% | $93,018 |
| Tampa, FL | 6,193 | 97.7% | $83,200 |
| Irvine, CA | 6,131 | 96.3% | $105,664 |
| Jersey City, NJ | 6,042 | 98.2% | $117,000 |
| Fremont, CA | 5,856 | 94.3% | $123,115 |
| Troy, MI | 5,758 | 97.7% | $93,829 |
| Bellevue, WA | 5,742 | 96.9% | $130,303 |
| Princeton, NJ | 4,812 | 97.1% | $108,493 |
| Phoenix, AZ | 4,136 | 96.3% | $103,813 |
| Cambridge, MA | 4,131 | 98.3% | $115,000 |
| Washington, DC | 4,015 | 94.5% | $99,920 |
| Herndon, VA | 4,013 | 97.5% | $109,700 |
| Piscataway, NJ | 3,992 | 96.4% | $109,283 |
| Philadelphia, PA | 3,976 | 94.7% | $102,877 |
| Farmington Hills, MI | 3,943 | 97.2% | $94,609 |
| Plainsboro, NJ | 3,914 | 96.4% | $96,750 |
| Orlando, FL | 3,888 | 90.0% | $59,446 |
| East Brunswick, NJ | 3,824 | 83.2% | $96,366 |
| Cincinnati, OH | 3,807 | 94.6% | $46,134 |
| Thomasville, GA | 3,642 | 99.8% | $30,202 |
| Columbus, OH | 3,579 | 97.1% | $100,000 |
| Frisco, TX | 3,567 | 98.2% | $97,864 |
| Pleasanton, CA | 3,537 | 94.4% | $132,359 |
The worksite city on each application, from DOL's decided cases since FY2016. Spellings of one city are pooled, and a city counts as one place per state.
Case data through Jun 30, 2026. How these figures are counted. Spotted an error? Tell us; every fix is dated in the corrections log.
The sources in full
Case data: DOL quarterly disclosure files (flag.dol.gov) · data through Jun 30, 2026 · quarterly
What this data includes
Case data: Decided PERM cases only. A case still waiting isn't in here, so counts and durations describe finished cases.
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