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PERM sponsorship by city

PERM jobs in Reading, MA

Decisions
87
Approved
98.8%
Median certified wage
$125,000
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  • withdrawn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Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn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 2 0 0
FY2017 1 0 1
FY2018 9 0 0
FY2019 5 1 1
FY2020 10 0 0
FY2021 15 0 0
FY2022 11 0 0
FY2023 5 0 0
FY2024 7 0 0
FY2025 13 0 0
FY2026 6 0 0

Top sponsors

Top occupations

Industries

  • Temporary Help Services 59
  • Temporary Help Services 10
  • Food Services and Drinking Places 4
  • Custom Computer Programming Services 3
  • Offices of Dentists 2
  • General Freight Trucking, Local 2
  • Fine Arts Schools 1
  • Private Households 1
  • Management Consulting Services 1
  • Restaurants and Other Eating Places 1

Countries of citizenship

  • India 44
  • China 10
  • Brazil 3
  • Ethiopia 1
  • Taiwan 1
  • Bosnia And Herzegovina 1
  • Bangladesh 1
  • Albania 1
  • Canada 1
  • Germany 1

Worker's education

  • Master's 32
  • Bachelor's 26
  • None 5
  • High School 3
  • Other 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 52
  • NOT IN USA 3
  • F-1 2
  • B-2 2
  • EWI 1
  • TN 1

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.