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PERM sponsor, #90 of 70,985 by filings

PECO FOODS, INC

PECO FOODS, INC sponsors green cards: it filed 215 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 14, 2026. PECO FOODS, INC has 151 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers · 81% of its filings
Main worksite
Batesville, AR · 100% of its filings
Industry
Poultry Processing · NAICS 311615

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Filings

399

#90 of 70,985

Certified

399

0 denied

Approval

100.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$31,408

offered, per year

Median days

485

19 slower 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.

In the queue right now 550 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

151

of 550 tracked cases. The other 399 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed January 5, 2026, 9 months ago.

Where those 151 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
151100%

A Department of Labor analyst has the application. This is the main queue, and it is where most pending PERM cases sit.

None of this changes one case's wait: DOL works one national line. Where DOL is working now is the figure that does.

From DOL's live status of 550 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 550, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 18, 2026

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What DOL has done to its cases as a group

  1. October 5 DOL certified 12 of its cases
  2. September 1 DOL certified 33 of its cases

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Its newest filings

Filed since DOL's last quarterly file, so the wage and law firm aren't published yet.

The 8 newest. 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

  1. PECO FOODS, INC

    median of 64 decisions in the last 90 days

    292 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 28,615 decisions in the same 90 days

    302 days

About the same as everyone: DOL works one national line in filing order. 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 80,983 cases, and would be decided around March 15, 2027 (between February 23, 2027 and April 24, 2027). Estimate another date

Every program

Across DOL's programs

The wage request, the PERM and the H-1B labor condition application, one line each.

PERM (green card)
399 published
151 pending
$31,408 median, n=399
Prevailing wage requests
14 published
0 pending
$31,554 median, n=14
H-1B labor condition applications
2 published
0 pending
2 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; 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.

Its newest wage requests and LCAs

Filed by PECO FOODS, INC, newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.

Wage requests

  • P-100-26175-046071 POULTRY PROCESSING WORKER 2026-06-24 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-26175-046063 POULTRY PROCESSING WORKER 2026-06-24 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-26085-732795 POULTRY PROCESSING WORKER $32,885 per year 2026-03-26 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-26085-732788 POULTRY PROCESSING WORKER $32,282 per year 2026-03-26 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-26006-537853 POULTRY PROCESSING WORKER $32,282 per year 2026-01-06 · DETERMINATION ISSUED

All wage requests by this employer

H-1B LCAs

All H-1B LCAs by this employer

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.

What its H-1B LCAs were for

From DOL's quarterly LCA files: 2 LCAs filed by PECO FOODS, INC, 2 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

2 positions for new employment, 0 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 2 · 100%
  • Change of employer 7e 0 · 0%
  • Continuing 7b 0 · 0%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 0 · 0%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 0 · 0%

Shares of the 2 worker positions requested. These are positions on certified LCAs, not people hired: DOL certifies an LCA before any petition, and many are never used.

What each box on the form means
  • New employment (7a). Starting with a new employer.
  • Change of employer (7e). Moving here from another employer, keeping the visa classification already held.
  • Continuing (7b). Staying with the same employer.
  • Change in previous employment (7c). Same employer, no material change to the job duties.
  • Concurrent employment (7d). Adding this employer while keeping another.
  • Amended petition (7f). Same employer, with a material change to the job duties.

Form ETA-9035, Section B, Item 7, in DOL's words from its LCA record layout. One LCA can tick several boxes.

Wage level it chose

  • Level I 2 · 100%
  • Level II 0 · 0%
  • Level III 0 · 0%
  • Level IV 0 · 0%

Shares of the 2 certified LCAs that named an OES level. The form asks for the level only when the employer set the wage from the OES survey itself; 0 of 2 used another source, such as a DOL wage determination or another survey. Level I is entry, Level IV fully competent.

What it declared on Section H

H-1B-dependent
No
Found a willful violator
No

As answered on its newest LCA, filed April 24, 2025. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 2 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 2. Both are the employer's own answers.

What the two answers mean

H-1B-dependent (20 CFR 655.736(a)): 25 or fewer full-time-equivalent employees in the US and more than 7 H-1B workers; 26 to 50 and more than 12; or 51 or more, with H-1B workers equal to at least 15% of them.

Willful violator (655.736(f)): DOL or the Justice Department found a willful failure or a misrepresentation of a material fact in the five years before the LCA was filed.

Either one adds two promises to the employer's LCAs: not to displace US workers, and to recruit US workers before hiring H-1B workers (655.738, 655.739). They don't apply to an LCA used only for exempt workers, paid at least $60,000 a year or holding a related master's degree (655.737). The rule on eCFR

Against other sponsors

Where it sits among 70,985 sponsors. The full ranking sorts every column.

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 399 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 67% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    215 filed in the last 12 months

    At the top of the 13,942 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

  • H-1B LCAs certified in the last 24 months

    1 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 13% of the 27,916 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

Position in the field 1,343 sponsors with 30+ decided

Approval rate

100.0%ahead of 34%, level with 891 more

0% 100%

Median days to decision

485 daysahead of 21%

5d 1152d
Each bar counts sponsors at that value. More
Each bar counts sponsors at that value. Sponsors with fewer than 30 decided cases are left out of the population rather than plotted, because a rate over a handful of cases lands wherever the handful landed. The line marks this one.
DOL PERM disclosure files

Against the sponsors ranked nearest

The 120 sponsors ranked nearest filed between 255 and 893 filings.

Their median wait
462 days
This one
485 days

This one sits 23 days behind 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 90 of 70,985 by volume: 89 filed at least as many filings, and 70,895 filed no more.

Just above
DFS Corporate Services LLC 408 filings
Just below
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company 389 filings

Sponsors filing at the same rate

Ranked either side of this one: they file about as many PERM cases.

Sponsors hiring for the same work

The employers filing the most PERM cases for Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers, 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

Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers

SOC 51-3022.00 · 323 filings, 81% of everything they file · 100.0% approved

How this is counted

These are the 2 occupations with the most filings, 399 of 399 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

Poultry Processing

NAICS 311615 · 399 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

  • Arkansas 399
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 399 of 399 filings.

Where the work is

  • Batesville, AR 399
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. This city covers 399 of 399 filings.

Who files for them

  1. JA EMPLOYMENT AGENCY INC. 399 filings · 100.0% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 399 of 399 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. Arkansas Democrat Gazette

    323 cases
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

  1. Under 30 days

    0.0%

  2. 30 to 59 days

    0.0%

  3. 60 to 89 days

    18%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    16%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    22%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    44%

  7. Over 180 days

    0.0%
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.

Where every PERM employer recruits

History

Year by year since 2017

1,115 PERM decisions from FY2017 to FY2026, busiest in FY2021 with 264.

  • certified
  • denied
  • withdrawn

Fiscal years, October to September. A year filed under another name is missing, not zero. FY2026 is partial: DOL's newest file runs through June 2026.

Every year as a table
Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn
FY2017 141 16 5
FY2018 41 123 11
FY2019 13 1 0
FY2020 7 0 0
FY2021 264 0 0
FY2022 15 0 0
FY2023 78 0 1
FY2024 76 0 0
FY2025 229 0 0
FY2026 94 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 716. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22178-78771 2023-08-30 certified POULTRY PROCESSING WORKER, AR $29,328
A-22179-80073 2023-08-21 certified POULTRY PROCESSING WORKER, AR $29,328
A-22179-80023 2023-08-21 certified POULTRY PROCESSING WORKER, AR $29,328
A-22179-79973 2023-08-21 certified POULTRY PROCESSING WORKER, AR $29,328
A-22173-76346 2023-08-21 certified POULTRY PROCESSING WORKER, AR $29,328
A-22172-75916 2023-08-21 certified POULTRY PROCESSING WORKER, AR $29,328
A-22172-75717 2023-08-21 certified POULTRY PROCESSING WORKER, AR $29,328
A-22159-68443 2023-08-18 certified POULTRY PROCESSING WORKER, AR $29,328
The other 17
A-22159-68355 2023-08-18 certified POULTRY PROCESSING WORKER, AR $29,328
A-22157-67002 2023-08-18 certified POULTRY PROCESSING WORKER, AR $29,328
A-22157-66987 2023-08-18 certified POULTRY PROCESSING WORKER, AR $29,328
A-22157-66972 2023-08-18 certified POULTRY PROCESSING WORKER, AR $29,328
A-22157-66970 2023-08-18 certified POULTRY PROCESSING WORKER, AR $29,328
A-22157-66960 2023-08-18 certified POULTRY PROCESSING WORKER, AR $29,328
A-22157-66927 2023-08-18 certified POULTRY PROCESSING WORKER, AR $29,328
A-22180-80952 2023-08-04 certified POULTRY PROCESSING WORKER, AR $29,328
A-22180-80944 2023-08-04 certified POULTRY PROCESSING WORKER, AR $29,328
A-22180-80921 2023-08-04 certified POULTRY PROCESSING WORKER, AR $29,328
A-22180-80873 2023-08-04 certified POULTRY PROCESSING WORKER, AR $29,328
A-22179-80153 2023-08-04 certified POULTRY PROCESSING WORKER, AR $29,328
A-22179-80152 2023-08-04 certified POULTRY PROCESSING WORKER, AR $29,328
A-22150-63048 2023-05-31 certified POULTRY PROCESSING WORKER, AR $29,328
A-22150-62999 2023-05-31 certified POULTRY PROCESSING WORKER, AR $29,328
A-22143-59372 2023-05-31 certified POULTRY PROCESSING WORKER, AR $29,328
A-22124-50059 2023-05-31 certified POULTRY PROCESSING WORKER, AR $29,328

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

  • Vietnam 456
  • Burma (myanmar) 218
  • China 22
  • South Korea 12
  • Brazil 2
  • Canada 2

Worker's education

  • None 223
  • High School 182
  • Bachelor's 175
  • Other 75
  • Associate's 56
  • Master's 5

Visa held when filed

  • NOT IN USA 645
  • F-1 53
  • F-2 4
  • J-1 2
  • L-1 2
  • B-2 1

Schools

  • HO CHI MINH CITY UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS 10
  • HO CHI MINH CITY UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY 8
  • UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS, HO CHI MINH CITY 7
  • VAN LANG UNIVERSITY 7
  • HO CHI MINH CITY OPEN UNIVERSITY 6
  • BANKING UNIVERSITY OF HO CHI MINH CITY 5

Fields of study

  • GENERAL 240
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 28
  • ACCOUNTING 15
  • ENGLISH 8
  • CIVIL ENGINEERING 7
  • ECONOMICS 7

Notes on these numbers

What this rank counts, and what it doesn't

DOL prints the name that went on the form, so one sponsor can appear under several. The entry below start the same way and were not merged, because the difference between them is more than a mistyped letter. Some may be the same sponsor; some are a different one. Rank #90 counts this page's cases only.

2 filings sit on those pages rather than this one. The methodology has the rule that decides which spellings merge.

What these numbers don't say

5 notes
The wage is the job, not the payer
Their filings are led by Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers, 323 of 399. 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 399 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 90. 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 399 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 AR. 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 18, 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.

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