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PERM sponsorship by city

PERM jobs in Cerritos, CA

Decisions
375
Approved
94.4%
Median certified wage
$62,348
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  • withdrawn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Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn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 52 4 6
FY2017 36 4 6
FY2018 37 1 5
FY2019 14 1 2
FY2020 22 2 3
FY2021 29 2 1
FY2022 21 1 2
FY2023 21 2 5
FY2024 31 1 4
FY2025 30 0 1
FY2026 27 1 1

Top sponsors

Top occupations

Industries

  • Electronic Shopping and Mail-Order Houses 23
  • Direct Health and Medical Insurance Carriers 19
  • Freight Transportation Arrangement 17
  • Custom Computer Programming Services 14
  • Offices of Certified Public Accountants 13
  • Offices of Lawyers 12
  • Grocery and Related Product Merchant Wholesalers 10
  • Air Transportation 9
  • Other Accounting Services 9
  • All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services 8

Countries of citizenship

Worker's education

  • Bachelor's 121
  • Master's 88
  • None 39
  • High School 36
  • Other 14
  • Associate's 6
  • Doctorate 4

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 109
  • F-1 59
  • J-1 25
  • E-2 15
  • NOT IN USA 12
  • B-2 6
  • TN 6
  • F-2 6
  • L-1 3
  • E-1 3

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.