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PERM sponsorship by city

PERM jobs in Cedar Rapids, IA

Decisions
555
Approved
97.4%
Median certified wage
$96,699
Years
FY2016 to FY2026

Year by year

  • certified
  • denied
  • withdrawn

Fiscal years run October to September. FY2016 to FY2023 come from DOL's closed-year files, FY2024 on from its current ones; the newest year is partial until DOL publishes its fourth quarter.

Every year as a table
Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn
FY2016 75 4 2
FY2017 53 2 2
FY2018 50 2 0
FY2019 31 1 2
FY2020 29 1 0
FY2021 62 1 0
FY2022 41 0 2
FY2023 40 1 6
FY2024 28 2 2
FY2025 62 0 5
FY2026 45 0 4

Top sponsors

Top occupations

Industries

  • Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing 183
  • Aerospace Product and Parts Manufacturing 109
  • Insurance Carriers 70
  • Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing 31
  • Other Computer Related Services 24
  • Computer Systems Design and Related Services 21
  • General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 16
  • Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists) 14
  • Custom Computer Programming Services 8
  • Power, Distribution, and Specialty Transformer Manufacturing 7

Countries of citizenship

  • India 298
  • China 45
  • Nepal 10
  • Canada 10
  • Taiwan 4
  • Malaysia 4
  • South Korea 3
  • Ghana 3
  • France 3
  • Mexico 3

Worker's education

  • Bachelor's 194
  • Master's 181
  • Other 35
  • Doctorate 9
  • None 6
  • High School 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 361
  • L-1 24
  • F-1 16
  • TN 6
  • H-4 3
  • E-2 1
  • J-1 1
  • TPS 1
  • NOT IN USA 1

The worksite city on each application, from DOL's decided cases since FY2016. Spellings of one city are pooled; a city counts as one place per state.

Case data: DOL quarterly disclosure files (flag.dol.gov) · data through Jun 30, 2026 · quarterly Decided PERM cases only. A case still waiting is not in here, so counts and durations describe finished cases, not the queue.