Updated
PERM sponsor, #452 of 70,985 by filings
EARTHWORKS, Inc.
- Main job
- Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers · 99% of its filings
- Main worksite
- Irving, TX · 32% of its filings
- Industry
- Landscaping Services · NAICS 56173
Waiting on a case with EARTHWORKS, Inc.?
- When it'll likely be decided
- An email when DOL moves it
This rate is level with the field
Over 80 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.
Why
The 95% interval runs up to a 4.6% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.
Filings
81
#452 of 70,985
Certified
80
0 denied
Approval
100.0%
field 96.8%
Median wage
$33,904
offered, per year
Median days
456
10 faster than the field
Right now
DOL's live record of its cases, read every day, and what it has done to them as a group.
Nothing for this sponsor is waiting on a decision. All 51 of their cases in the live tracker are closed.
Follow EARTHWORKS, Inc.
An email when DOL moves its cases as a group: five or more on or off hold in a day, or a batch decided well above its usual pace.
What DOL has done to its cases as a group
Nothing employer-wide since this site's record began on August 27, 2026.
Its newest filings
Filed since DOL's last quarterly file, so the wage and law firm aren't published yet.
- G-200-23264-366346 Landscape Laborer filed 2023-09-21 · WITHDRAWN
Every filing by this employer is in the case search, live and published together.
Source: DOL's own case-status service, flag.dol.gov, where any of these numbers can be looked up. A filing shows there soon after it's made, months before DOL's quarterly files.
How long it takes
How long their cases are taking
- 301 days
Every employer
median of 31,092 decisions in the same 90 days
None of their cases were decided in the last 90 days, too few for a median of their own. Filing to decision, over decisions we watched DOL make; withdrawals left out.
Filed today: a new case joins the same line as anyone's, behind 79,915 cases, and would be decided around March 19, 2027 (between February 27, 2027 and April 28, 2027). Estimate another date
Every program
Across DOL's programs
The wage request, the PERM and the H-1B labor condition application, and its seasonal H-2A, H-2B and CW-1 work, one line each.
- PERM (green card)
- 81 published
- 0 pending
- $33,904 median, n=81
- Prevailing wage requests
- 8 published
- 1 pending
- 8 wages, under the floor
- H-1B labor condition applications
- 0 published
- 0 pending
- no wage published
- H-2A, H-2B and CW-1 (seasonal work)
- 9 published
- 2 pending
- 9 hourly wages, under the floor
Every case across these programs is in the search.
How these are counted
Medians are of the published rows with a usable wage, annualised from whatever unit the filing quoted, and withheld under 10 wages. DOL publishes no employer number, so filings are matched by the employer's legal name, read under the 2 spellings DOL's files use for it; another employer with the same legal name would be counted here too. The PERM is the green-card step; the wage request comes months before it, and the LCA is the separate form for an H-1B. DOL publishes each in its own file, and its live record shows what is still open. Seasonal wages stay hourly, as DOL's H-2A, H-2B and CW-1 files quote them: a job lasting a season, annualised over a full year, would describe pay nobody earns. DOL certified 418 workers across these filings.
Its newest wage requests and LCAs
Filed by EARTHWORKS, Inc., newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.
Wage requests
- P-100-26278-280440 Landscape Account Manager 2026-10-05 · IN PROCESS
- P-100-24079-811084 Landscape Team Member $27,706 per year 2024-03-19 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-24079-810999 Landscape Team Member $30,139 per year 2024-03-19 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-23276-407588 Landscape Technicians $26,770 per year 2023-10-03 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-23276-407576 Landscape Technicians $27,830 per year 2023-10-03 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
Source: DOL's own case-status service, flag.dol.gov, where any of these numbers can be looked up. A filing shows there soon after it's made, months before DOL's quarterly files.
Seasonal work: H-2A, H-2B and CW-1
Filed by EARTHWORKS, Inc., as DOL's case-status service shows them.
- P-400-26278-279807 H-2B wage request Landscape Worker 2026-10-05 · IN PROCESS
- P-400-26278-279794 H-2B wage request Landscape Worker 2026-10-05 · IN PROCESS
- P-400-26170-033398 H-2B wage request Landscape Laborer 2026-06-19 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-400-26160-996885 H-2B wage request Landscape Laborer 2026-06-09 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- H-400-26036-621653 H-2B application Landscape Laborer 2026-02-05 · FULL CERTIFICATION
Against other sponsors
Where it sits among 70,985 sponsors. The full ranking sorts every column.
How it compares with other sponsors
Each figure ranked only among sponsors with enough cases for it to mean something. No single score: they measure different things.
PERM approval rate
100.0% of 80 decided PERM cases
Higher than 67% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.
Approval rate
100.0%ahead of 34%, level with 891 more
Median days to decision
456 daysahead of 61%
Each bar counts sponsors at that value. More
Against the sponsors ranked nearest
The 120 sponsors ranked nearest filed between 72 and 93 filings.
- Their median wait
- 462 days
- This one
- 456 days
This one sits 6 days ahead of them.
Why no approval rate
A band is a slice of the volume ranking rather than a population picked for having enough decided cases, so a band rate would be solid at the top of the list and noise at the bottom, under one heading.
Where this sits in the ranking
Ranked 452 of 70,985 by volume: 451 filed at least as many filings, and 70,533 filed no more.
- Just above
- Terracare Associates, LLC 81 filings
- Just below
- Siemens Energy Inc 80 filings
Sponsors filing at the same rate
Ranked either side of this one: they file about as many PERM cases.
- #451 Terracare Associates, LLC 81 filings · none denied
- #453 Siemens Energy Inc 80 filings · none denied
- #450 The Bank of New York Mellon 81 filings · none denied
- #454 7-Eleven, Inc. 80 filings · 1 denied
- #449 Voyager Express Inc 81 filings · none denied
- #455 CONDUENT BUSINESS SERVICES, LLC 80 filings · 2 denied
Sponsors hiring for the same work
The employers filing the most PERM cases for Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers, the occupation this sponsor files for most.
What they file, and where
A rank says how much. It says nothing about what the work is, which is the part a job offer from this sponsor turns on.
What the jobs are
Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers
SOC 37-3011.00 · 80 filings, 99% of everything they file · 100.0% approved
How this is counted
These are the occupation with the most filings, 80 of 81 cases between them. The occupation on a PERM is the SOC code on the form, which is the job as DOL classifies it rather than the job title on the offer. DOL still accepts two SOC vintages, so one job can appear twice under two codes; the code is printed for exactly that reason.
The industry they declared
Landscaping Services
NAICS 56173, 561730 · 81 filings
How this is counted
The NAICS code the employer entered on the form, with the Census Bureau's title for it. DOL publishes the code alone, and an employer can file under more than one.
Where the jobs are
- Texas 31
How this is counted
The worksite state on the application, which is where the job is and not where the company is headquartered. Volume by state across everyone is on the state map. This state covers 31 of 81 filings.
Where the work is
- Irving, TX 26
- Houston, TX 5
How this is counted
The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 2 cities cover 31 of 81 filings.
Who files for them
- Mason Law Firm, PLLC 81 filings · 100.0% approved
How this is counted
The law firm named on the application. 81 of 81 filings, 100% of the total.
Newspapers it advertised in
- 47 cases
The Dallas Morning News
- 3 cases
Houston Chronicle
How this is counted
The newspaper or professional journal named for each case's two print ads, one count per paper per case, however the filer spelled it.
How long before filing it began
- 0.0%
Under 30 days
- 0.0%
30 to 59 days
- 0.0%
60 to 89 days
- 0.0%
90 to 119 days
- 100%
120 to 149 days
- 0.0%
150 to 180 days
- 0.0%
Over 180 days
How this is counted
Days from the first recruitment step to the filing. 20 C.F.R. § 656.17(e) puts the job order and ads 30 to 180 days before filing.
History
Year by year since 2010
101 PERM decisions from FY2010 to FY2025, busiest in FY2025 with 49.
- certified
- denied
- withdrawn
Fiscal years, October to September. A year filed under another name is missing, not zero. FY2025 is partial: DOL's newest file runs through June 2026.
Every year as a table
| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Withdrawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2010 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2011 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2012 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2013 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2015 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2016 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2017 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2018 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2019 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2022 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2023 | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2024 | 31 | 0 | 1 |
| FY2025 | 49 | 0 | 0 |
Decided in FY2016 to FY2023
All 18. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.
| Case | Decided | Outcome | Job | Offered wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A-22313-54980 | 2023-09-27 | certified | Landscape Laborer, TX | $35,100 |
| A-22313-54764 | 2023-09-27 | certified | Landscape Laborer, TX | $35,100 |
| A-22313-54763 | 2023-09-27 | certified | Landscape Laborer, TX | $35,100 |
| A-22313-54759 | 2023-09-27 | certified | Landscape Laborer, TX | $35,100 |
| A-22313-54736 | 2023-09-27 | certified | Landscape Laborer, TX | $35,100 |
| A-22313-54729 | 2023-09-27 | certified | Landscape Laborer, TX | $35,100 |
| A-22313-54722 | 2023-09-27 | certified | Landscape Laborer, TX | $35,100 |
| A-22313-54697 | 2023-09-27 | certified | Landscape Laborer, TX | $35,100 |
The other 10
| A-22313-54692 | 2023-09-27 | certified | Landscape Laborer, TX | $35,100 |
| A-22313-54668 | 2023-09-27 | certified | Landscape Laborer, TX | $35,100 |
| A-22313-54636 | 2023-09-27 | certified | Landscape Laborer, TX | $35,100 |
| A-22313-54616 | 2023-09-27 | certified | Landscape Laborer, TX | $35,100 |
| A-22313-54589 | 2023-09-27 | certified | Landscape Laborer, TX | $35,100 |
| A-22313-54571 | 2023-09-27 | certified | Landscape Laborer, TX | $35,100 |
| A-22315-56212 | 2023-09-26 | certified | Landscape Laborer, TX | $35,100 |
| A-22315-55915 | 2023-09-26 | certified | Landscape Laborer, TX | $35,100 |
| A-22315-55908 | 2023-09-26 | certified | Landscape Laborer, TX | $35,100 |
| A-22314-55905 | 2023-09-26 | certified | Landscape Laborer, TX | $35,100 |
Who they sponsored, FY2016 to FY2023
From DOL's old form; the form in use since mid-2023 doesn't carry them. Top six of each.
Country of citizenship
- Mexico 18
Worker's education
- None 18
Visa held when filed
- H-2B 17
Notes on these numbers
What these numbers don't say
5 notes
- The wage is the job, not the payer
- Their filings are led by Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers, 80 of 81. The median offered wage moves almost entirely with what roles they file. A software developer and a poultry cutter are different numbers wherever they are filed, so this figure is not plotted against the field and no percentile is given for it: that comparison would rank occupation mix and call it pay. Wages by occupation are on the wages page.
- Volume doesn’t change the wait
- DOL works a single national queue, oldest first, whoever filed the case, so these 81 filings bought no priority: a company with four thousand waits exactly as long as one with three.
- The name is a legal entity
- DOL prints whatever went on the form, and here that name ranks 452. A group that files through several subsidiaries appears as several rows, and one that files everything through a parent appears once, so a rank is a rank among printed names rather than among companies.
- A median over 80 decided cases
- The queue is national and first in, first out, so this figure follows when the cases were filed as much as it follows the sponsor.
- Two sources, and they do not add up
- The filing counts come from DOL's disclosure files, where every row already carries a decision date, so nothing pending is in them. The queue figures come from a live per-case tracker with its own coverage and its own as-of date. Subtracting one from the other gives a number that means nothing. The worksite on most of these is TX. Where the queue stands overall is on the processing times page.
The window these figures cover: DOL's PERM disclosure files for fiscal years 2024 to 2026, through the third quarter of 2026, 373,939 decided cases. Nothing pending is counted here. How each figure is built
Case data: DOL quarterly disclosure files (flag.dol.gov) · data through Jun 30, 2026 · quarterly
Employers and firms: Derived from DOL's disclosure files · data through Jun 30, 2026 · rebuilt with each quarterly load
Per-case statuses: flag.dol.gov/recaptcha/caseStatus (DOL, direct) · data through Oct 22, 2026 · daily
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.
Employers and firms: Employers, law firms and occupations ranked from decided cases only.
Per-case statuses: Every PERM case DOL indexes, pending included. No wage, law firm or worksite: DOL reveals those only when a case is published.