Updated
PERM jobs in Greenville, SC
- Decisions
- 1,324
- Approved
- 94.4%
- Median certified wage
- $23,920
- Years
- FY2016 to FY2026
Year by year
- certified
- denied
- withdrawn
Fiscal years run October to September. More
Fiscal years run October to September. FY2016 to FY2023 come from DOL's closed-year files, and 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| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Withdrawn |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 | 298 | 10 | 77 |
| FY2017 | 65 | 7 | 43 |
| FY2018 | 117 | 8 | 5 |
| FY2019 | 70 | 2 | 9 |
| FY2020 | 55 | 1 | 0 |
| FY2021 | 53 | 1 | 7 |
| FY2022 | 63 | 8 | 21 |
| FY2023 | 114 | 15 | 1 |
| FY2024 | 104 | 6 | 2 |
| FY2025 | 60 | 1 | 1 |
| FY2026 | 84 | 5 | 11 |
Top sponsors
- HOUSE OF RAEFORD FARMS, INC. 387
- US Waffle Company, Inc. 110
- Package Concepts & Materials, Inc. 67
- Chix and Bix LLC 52
- US Waffle Company Inc CN942 51
- Paris Mountain Hospitality, LLC 41
- Exceptional Hospitality, Inc. 40
- La Cosecha XVIII, LLC 37
- Southeastern Janitorial of SC 37
- Sobys LLC 34
Top occupations
- Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers 390
- Helpers--Production Workers 228
- Combined Food Preparation and Serving Workers, Including Fast Food 133
- Food Preparation Workers 87
- Cooks, Restaurant 37
- Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners 37
- Software Developers, Applications 32
- Home Health Aides 23
- Mechanical Engineers 18
- Computer Systems Analysts 17
Industries
- Poultry Processing 372
- Frozen Specialty Food Manufacturing 161
- Limited-Service Restaurants 133
- Full-Service Restaurants 69
- Plastics Packaging Film and Sheet (including Laminated) Manufacturing 67
- Food Services and Drinking Places 64
- Janitorial Services 54
- Custom Computer Programming Services 31
- Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities 23
- Engineering Services 19
Countries of citizenship
- China 226
- South Korea 156
- India 113
- Vietnam 112
- Brazil 75
- Nepal 52
- Iran 48
- Bangladesh 37
- Hong Kong 35
- Philippines 30
Worker's education
- None 749
- High School 171
- Bachelor's 96
- Master's 94
- Other 22
- Doctorate 16
- Associate's 1
Visa held when filed
- NOT IN USA 458
- F-1 201
- H-1B 162
- L-1 32
- F-2 23
- B-2 13
- E-2 12
- TN 9
- J-1 5
- E-1 5
H-1B in Greenville, SC
1,913 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 1,781 (93%). An LCA is the employer's wage attestation before an H-1B petition, so it counts positions offered. It doesn't count people hired.
Employers, certified LCAs since FY2024
Jobs, certified LCAs since FY2024
- Software Developers 171
- Data Scientists 79
- Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 66
- Mechanical Engineers 43
- Civil Engineers 24
- Computer Systems Analysts 22
- Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 19
- Computer Programmers 18
- Operations Research Analysts 18
- Manufacturing Engineers 14
Where Greenville, SC sits
- County
- Greenville County
- Census places Greenville city in it
- Metro area
- Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC
- Metropolitan statistical area
- DOL wage area
- Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC
- The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27
93.3 is BEA's price level for the Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 76.8. A salary here buys about 107% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.
- Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers390 PERM decisions
- Helpers--Production Workers228 PERM decisions
- Food Preparation Workers87 PERM decisions
- Cooks, Restaurant37 PERM decisions
- Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners37 PERM decisions
- Mechanical Engineers18 PERM decisions
Each row has its own scale, marked at its ends: these jobs pay too differently to share one. The table compares them.
- middle half of pay (BLS)
- median
- 10th to 90th percentile
- DOL's Levels I to IV, left to right
| Job | BLS median | Level I | Level II | Level III | Level IV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers | — | $33,446 | $34,320 | $35,194 | $36,067 |
| Helpers--Production Workers | $36,940 | $31,138 | $35,485 | $39,811 | $44,158 |
| Food Preparation Workers | $30,430 | $24,482 | $28,059 | $31,637 | $35,214 |
| Cooks, Restaurant | $35,680 | $27,706 | $31,595 | $35,485 | $39,374 |
| Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners | $31,180 | $25,355 | $28,891 | $32,448 | $35,984 |
| Mechanical Engineers | $101,570 | $78,416 | $95,056 | $111,675 | $128,315 |
Any job in any area, and every wage year since 2021-22, in the wage-level tool.
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 · LCA disclosures through Jun 30, 2026 · Census places and metros through Jan 1, 2026 · BLS market pay through May 31, 2025 · DOL wage tables through Jul 1, 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
LCA disclosures: DOL quarterly LCA disclosure files (www.dol.gov) · data through Jun 30, 2026 · quarterly
Census places and metros: Census Bureau Gazetteer and metro delineation files (census.gov) · data through Jan 1, 2026 · yearly
BLS market pay: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (bls.gov) · data through May 31, 2025 · yearly, each spring
DOL wage tables: DOL OFLC wage data downloads (flag.dol.gov) · data through Jul 1, 2026 · yearly, each july
What each source includes
Case data: Decided PERM cases only. A case still waiting isn't in here, so counts and durations describe finished cases.
LCA disclosures: Certified and denied H-1B labor condition applications only, with the wage offered.
Census places and metros: Where each worksite city sits: its county, metro area and DOL wage area, matched to Census's place and county files. A city Census lists in no single place is left unmatched. This site doesn't guess it.
BLS market pay: Pay employers report for everyone in each job, from BLS's yearly survey (May of the year named). It's shown nationally, by state and by metro. It covers citizens and immigrants alike, and it isn't drawn from PERM offers.
DOL wage tables: The four prevailing wage levels DOL publishes for every job in every area, each wage year from 2021-22, as DOL's own tables print them. They're the floors an offer is held to. They don't show what anyone was paid.
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