Updated
PERM jobs in Miami, FL
- Decisions
- 9,674
- Approved
- 88.7%
- Median certified wage
- $62,504
- 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- withdrawn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| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Withdrawn |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 | 739 | 49 | 24 |
| FY2017 | 813 | 65 | 33 |
| FY2018 | 827 | 217 | 39 |
| FY2019 | 642 | 143 | 45 |
| FY2020 | 572 | 120 | 33 |
| FY2021 | 602 | 61 | 53 |
| FY2022 | 573 | 67 | 32 |
| FY2023 | 507 | 196 | 75 |
| FY2024 | 754 | 60 | 77 |
| FY2025 | 1,125 | 20 | 51 |
| FY2026 | 975 | 38 | 47 |
Top sponsors
- NATURE'S WAY FARMS, LLC 704
- PURE BEAUTY FARMS, INC 432
- Service Keepers Maintenance Inc. 176
- Carnival Corporation 113
- Citibank, N.A. 88
- NATURE'S WAY NURSERY OF MIAMI, INC 87
- FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY 74
- AIRCRAFT DEVELOPMENT FLIGHT AIRWAYS CORP. 65
- EDM USA, INC. 65
- THE BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP, INC. 63
Top occupations
- Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse 1,206
- Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists 354
- Marketing Managers 334
- Financial Analysts 304
- Accountants and Auditors 279
- Management Analysts 274
- Software Developers, Applications 256
- Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive 253
- Financial Managers 248
- General and Operations Managers 242
Industries
- Nursery and Floriculture Production 788
- Greenhouse, Nursery, and Floriculture Production 432
- Janitorial Services 184
- Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services 173
- Investment Banking and Securities Dealing 150
- Deep Sea Passenger Transportation 143
- Full-Service Restaurants 141
- Freight Transportation Arrangement 139
- Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools 133
- Commercial Banking 133
Countries of citizenship
Worker's education
- Bachelor's 2,764
- None 1,925
- Master's 1,278
- High School 738
- Other 240
- Associate's 153
- Doctorate 103
Visa held when filed
- H-1B 1,661
- NOT IN USA 879
- F-1 641
- L-1 609
- E-2 569
- B-2 478
- TN 126
- F-2 91
- B-1 66
- H-1B1 49
H-1B in Miami, FL
14,055 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 13,073 (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
- UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI 345
- Ernst & Young U.S. LLP 194
- Citadel Securities Americas Services LLC 129
- FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY 90
- Baptist Health South Florida Inc. 86
- MPG Operations LLC 86
- Carnival Corporation 71
- THE BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP, INC. 67
- JPMorgan Chase & Co. 60
- Amazon.com Services LLC 55
Jobs, certified LCAs since FY2024
- Software Developers 751
- Financial and Investment Analysts 383
- Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 282
- Data Scientists 269
- Management Analysts 242
- Accountants and Auditors 215
- Operations Research Analysts 209
- Search Marketing Strategists 157
- Marketing Managers 123
- Computer and Information Systems Managers 120
Where Miami, FL sits
- County
- Miami-Dade County
- Census places Miami 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.
- Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse1,206 PERM decisions
- Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists354 PERM decisions
- Marketing Managers334 PERM decisions
- Financial Analysts304 PERM decisions
- Accountants and Auditors279 PERM decisions
- Management Analysts274 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse | $30,540 | $28,912 | $31,450 | $33,966 | $36,504 |
| Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists | $78,990 | $46,613 | $64,251 | $81,890 | $99,528 |
| Marketing Managers | $135,870 | $88,691 | $122,096 | $155,501 | $188,906 |
| Financial Analysts | $105,160 | $69,410 | $93,558 | $117,707 | $141,856 |
| Accountants and Auditors | $80,920 | $55,723 | $72,883 | $90,064 | $107,224 |
| Management Analysts | $94,290 | $61,714 | $84,011 | $106,330 | $128,627 |
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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