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PERM jobs in Homestead, FL

Decisions
259
Approved
87.0%
Median certified wage
$22,880
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  • withdrawn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Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn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 9 3 0
FY2017 7 1 0
FY2018 9 0 0
FY2019 6 3 0
FY2020 2 3 1
FY2021 12 0 0
FY2022 5 0 0
FY2023 39 12 56
FY2024 60 1 1
FY2025 9 2 0
FY2026 16 1 1

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Top occupations

Industries

  • Nursery and Floriculture Production 157
  • Convenience Stores 12
  • Automobile Dealers 6
  • Landscaping Services 4
  • Finfish Farming and Fish Hatcheries 3
  • Employment Services 3
  • Poured Concrete Foundation and Structure Contractors 3
  • Electrical Contractors and Other Wiring Installation Contractors 3
  • Telecommunications 3
  • Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools 3

Countries of citizenship

  • Colombia 127
  • Venezuela 25
  • Dominican Republic 12
  • Bangladesh 12
  • Mexico 6
  • Peru 5
  • Vietnam 5
  • Guatemala 4
  • Argentina 3
  • Spain 3

Worker's education

  • None 175
  • Bachelor's 18
  • High School 15
  • Associate's 8
  • Master's 5
  • Doctorate 2
  • Other 1

Visa held when filed

  • B-2 17
  • NOT IN USA 8
  • E-2 6
  • H-1B 6
  • TN 3
  • F-1 3
  • B-1 2
  • F-2 1
  • EWI 1
  • L-1 1

H-1B in Homestead, FL

130 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 119 (92%). An LCA is the employer's wage attestation before an H-1B petition, so it counts positions offered. It doesn't count people hired.

Where Homestead, FL sits

County
Miami-Dade County
Census places Homestead city in it
Metro area
Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL
Metropolitan statistical area
DOL wage area
Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL
The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27

114.2 is BEA's price level for the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 155.6. A salary here buys about 88% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.

What these jobs pay in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL BLS May 2025, DOL wage year 2026-27
  • Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse
    156 PERM decisions
  • First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers
    9 PERM decisions
  • General and Operations Managers
    6 PERM decisions
  • Retail Salespersons
    5 PERM decisions
  • Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists
    5 PERM decisions
  • Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers
    4 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
Market pay and DOL wage levels for the jobs filed most here
Job BLS median Level I Level II Level III Level IV
Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse $30,540 $28,912 $31,450 $33,966 $36,504
First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers $50,250 $37,232 $46,072 $54,891 $63,731
General and Operations Managers $105,640 $57,595 $94,224 $130,874 $167,502
Retail Salespersons $34,330 $29,078 $32,926 $36,795 $40,643
Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists $78,990 $46,613 $64,251 $81,890 $99,528
Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers $86,180 $71,261 $88,712 $106,184 $123,635

Any job in any area, and every wage year since 2021-22, in the wage-level tool.

The jobs filed most in Homestead, FL: what employers in the metro report paying everyone in each, and DOL's four prevailing wage levels there. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics; DOL OFLC wage tables

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.

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