Updated
PERM jobs in Hanover, MA
- Decisions
- 67
- Approved
- 86.5%
- Median certified wage
- $37,000
- 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- withdrawn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| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Withdrawn |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 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| FY2017 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2018 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2019 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2022 | 1 | 0 | 15 |
| FY2023 | 21 | 3 | 0 |
| FY2024 | 4 | 3 | 0 |
| FY2025 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2026 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Top sponsors
- PARAGON LANSDCAPE CONSTRUCTION INC. 42
- BROTHERS B&G INCORPORATED 6
- Quan's Kitchen of Hanover Inc. 6
- PARAGON LANDSCAPE CONSTRUCTION INC. 3
- Sturtevant, Inc. 1
- Excel Scaffold & Leasing Corporation 1
- Royal Administration Services, Inc. 1
- BAYSTATE SHEDS LLC 1
- ANGELOS INC 1
- Cardinal Cushing Centers, Inc. 1
Top occupations
Industries
- Landscape Architectural Services 45
- Food Services and Drinking Places (NAICS 722110) 6
- Restaurants and Other Eating Places 3
- Food Services and Drinking Places (NAICS 722) 2
- Full-Service Restaurants 2
- Commercial and Service Industry Machinery Manufacturing 1
- All Other Specialty Trade Contractors 1
- All Other Insurance Related Activities 1
- New Housing For-Sale Builders 1
- Residential Intellectual and Developmental Disability Facilities 1
Countries of citizenship
- Mexico 31
- Brazil 11
- China 7
- Albania 4
- Nepal 1
- Czech Republic 1
- United Kingdom 1
Worker's education
- High School 24
- Other 17
- None 8
- Bachelor's 5
- Master's 2
Visa held when filed
- H-2B 31
- B-2 8
- H-1B 2
- NOT IN USA 1
- E-3 1
- TPS 1
- P-1 1
Where Hanover, MA sits
- County
- Plymouth County
- Census places Hanover town in it
- Metro area
- Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH
- Metropolitan statistical area
- DOL wage area
- Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH
- The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27
108.3 is BEA's price level for the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 148.4. A salary here buys about 92% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.
- Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers45 PERM decisions
- Chefs and Head Cooks6 PERM decisions
- Cooks, Restaurant5 PERM decisions
- Accountants and Auditors2 PERM decisions
- Food Preparation Workers2 PERM decisions
- Mechanical Engineers1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers | $49,030 | $41,330 | $46,259 | $51,210 | $56,139 |
| Chefs and Head Cooks | $72,470 | $52,187 | $63,773 | $75,338 | $86,923 |
| Cooks, Restaurant | $45,830 | $37,544 | $41,683 | $45,843 | $49,982 |
| Accountants and Auditors | $100,150 | $74,006 | $91,250 | $108,493 | $125,736 |
| Food Preparation Workers | $39,660 | $34,882 | $38,230 | $41,600 | $44,949 |
| Mechanical Engineers | $119,300 | $86,091 | $104,042 | $121,971 | $139,922 |
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 · 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
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.
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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