Updated
PERM jobs in West Liberty, IA
- Decisions
- 241
- Approved
- 100.0%
- Median certified wage
- $30,680
- Years
- FY2016 to FY2024
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- withdrawn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| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Withdrawn |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 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2017 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2019 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2022 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| FY2023 | 130 | 0 | 2 |
| FY2024 | 95 | 0 | 0 |
Top sponsors
- WEST LIBERTY FOODS, LLC 239
- GIRI LLC 2
Top occupations
Industries
- Poultry Processing 143
- Animal (except Poultry) Slaughtering 96
- Other Activities Related to Real Estate 2
Countries of citizenship
- Bangladesh 69
- Mongolia 39
- Brazil 31
- Burma (myanmar) 28
- Vietnam 24
- Cambodia 20
- Nepal 10
- Nigeria 3
- Taiwan 3
- Pakistan 3
Worker's education
- None 239
- Bachelor's 1
- Master's 1
Visa held when filed
- F-1 46
- B-2 21
- F-2 5
- B-1 2
- J-1 2
- PAROLEE 2
- E-2 1
- H-2B 1
Where West Liberty, IA sits
- County
- Muscatine County
- Census places West Liberty city in it
- Metro area
- Muscatine, IA
- Micropolitan statistical area
- DOL wage area
- Southeast Iowa nonmetropolitan area
- The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27
- Slaughterers and Meat Packers165 PERM decisions
- Molders, Shapers, and Casters, Except Metal and Plastic74 PERM decisions
- General and Operations Managers2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Slaughterers and Meat Packers | $44,220 | $38,854 | $40,789 | $42,744 | $44,678 |
| Molders, Shapers, and Casters, Except Metal and Plastic | $46,990 | $39,395 | $43,326 | $47,258 | $51,189 |
| General and Operations Managers | $79,320 | $45,864 | $71,198 | $96,512 | $121,846 |
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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