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PERM sponsor, #41 of 70,985 by filings

WAYNE FARMS LLC

Main job
Poultry Cutter and Trimmer · 99% of its filings
Main worksite
Dobson, NC · 62% of its filings
Industry
Poultry Processing · NAICS 311615

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Filings

784

#41 of 70,985

Certified

754

10 denied

Approval

98.7%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$29,120

offered, per year

Median days

396

70 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.

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Fewer than five of its PERM cases are pending as of October 20, 2026, and the census that draws this bar starts at five.

What DOL has done to its cases as a group

Nothing employer-wide since this site's record began on August 27, 2026.

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How long it takes

How long their cases are taking

  1. Every employer

    median of 29,586 decisions in the same 90 days

    302 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 80,522 cases, and would be decided around March 16, 2027 (between February 24, 2027 and April 25, 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)
784 published
no live read
$29,120 median, n=784
Prevailing wage requests
1 published
0 pending
1 wage, under the floor
H-1B labor condition applications
3 published
0 pending
3 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 WAYNE FARMS LLC, newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.

Wage requests

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: 3 LCAs filed by WAYNE FARMS LLC, 3 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

  • New employment 7a 0 · 0%
  • Change of employer 7e 0 · 0%
  • Continuing 7b 3 · 100%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 0 · 0%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 0 · 0%

Shares of the 3 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 0 · 0%
  • Level II 2 · 67%
  • Level III 1 · 33%
  • Level IV 0 · 0%

Shares of the 3 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 3 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 September 3, 2025. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 3 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 3. 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

    98.7% of 764 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 24% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

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

    1 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 13% of the 27,903 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

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

Approval rate

98.7%ahead of 24%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

396 daysahead of 91%

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 100 sponsors ranked nearest filed between 364 and 6,875 filings.

Their median wait
462 days
This one
396 days

This one sits 66 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 41 of 70,985 by volume: 40 filed at least as many filings, and 70,944 filed no more.

Just above
MCKINSEY & COMPANY, INC. UNITED STATES 787 filings
Just below
NORMAN W. FRIES, INC 780 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 Poultry Cutter and Trimmer, 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

Poultry Cutter and Trimmer

SOC 51-3022.00 · 780 filings, 99% of everything they file · 98.8% approved

How this is counted

These are the 2 occupations with the most filings, 784 of 784 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 · 783 filings

  • Animal (except Poultry) Slaughtering 3116111
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

  • North Carolina 484
  • Georgia 300
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. These 2 states cover 784 of 784 filings.

Where the work is

  • Dobson, NC 484
  • Pendergrass, GA 300
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 2 cities cover 784 of 784 filings.

History

Year by year since 2012

3,486 PERM decisions from FY2012 to FY2024, busiest in FY2023 with 1,232.

  • certified
  • denied
  • withdrawn

Fiscal years, October to September. A year filed under another name is missing, not zero. FY2024 is partial: DOL's newest file runs through June 2026.

Every year as a table
Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn
FY2012 0 1 0
FY2013 0 0 0
FY2014 0 0 0
FY2015 0 0 0
FY2016 333 51 36
FY2017 145 180 38
FY2018 157 114 24
FY2019 116 1 1
FY2020 132 12 19
FY2021 28 1 2
FY2022 60 1 18
FY2023 840 4 388
FY2024 754 10 20

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 2,701. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22319-57708 2023-09-29 certified Poultry Cutter and Trimmer, NC $31,200
A-22301-47855 2023-09-28 certified Poultry Cutter and Trimmer, NC $31,200
A-22301-47838 2023-09-28 certified Poultry Cutter and Trimmer, NC $31,200
A-22301-47824 2023-09-28 certified Poultry Cutter and Trimmer, NC $31,200
A-22319-57703 2023-09-27 certified Poultry Cutter and Trimmer, NC $31,200
A-22319-57699 2023-09-27 certified Poultry Cutter and Trimmer, NC $31,200
A-22319-57671 2023-09-27 certified Poultry Cutter and Trimmer, NC $31,200
A-22319-57665 2023-09-27 certified Poultry Cutter and Trimmer, NC $31,200
The other 17
A-22319-57627 2023-09-27 certified Poultry Cutter and Trimmer, NC $31,200
A-22319-57616 2023-09-27 certified Poultry Cutter and Trimmer, NC $31,200
A-22319-57612 2023-09-27 certified Poultry Cutter and Trimmer, NC $31,200
A-22319-57601 2023-09-27 certified Poultry Cutter and Trimmer, NC $31,200
A-22319-57594 2023-09-27 certified Poultry Cutter and Trimmer, NC $31,200
A-22319-57588 2023-09-27 certified Poultry Cutter and Trimmer, NC $31,200
A-22319-57583 2023-09-27 certified Poultry Cutter and Trimmer, NC $31,200
A-22319-57576 2023-09-27 certified Poultry Cutter and Trimmer, NC $31,200
A-22319-57562 2023-09-27 certified Poultry Cutter and Trimmer, NC $31,200
A-22319-57550 2023-09-27 certified Poultry Cutter and Trimmer, NC $31,200
A-22301-47808 2023-09-26 certified Poultry Cutter and Trimmer, NC $31,200
A-22301-47789 2023-09-26 certified Poultry Cutter and Trimmer, NC $31,200
A-22300-47423 2023-09-26 certified Poultry Cutter and Trimmer, NC $31,200
A-22300-47391 2023-09-26 certified Poultry Cutter and Trimmer, NC $31,200
A-22300-47379 2023-09-26 certified Poultry Cutter and Trimmer, NC $31,200
A-22270-29080 2023-09-26 certified Poultry Cutter and Trimmer, GA $29,120
A-22270-29032 2023-09-26 certified Poultry Cutter and Trimmer, GA $29,120

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 2,351
  • South Korea 273
  • Venezuela 30
  • El Salvador 14
  • Peru 7
  • Brazil 5

Worker's education

  • None 1,960
  • High School 336
  • Bachelor's 262
  • Associate's 118
  • Other 20
  • Master's 5

Visa held when filed

  • NOT IN USA 2,210
  • F-1 325
  • B-2 81
  • F-2 24
  • E-2 8
  • J-1 5

Schools

  • NGUYEN DU HIGH SCHOOL 7
  • KOREA NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY 6
  • TRAN PHU HIGH SCHOOL 6
  • HANKOOK UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN STUDIES 5
  • KYUNGHEE UNIVERSITY 5
  • LUONG VAN CAN HIGH SCHOOL 5

Fields of study

  • GENERAL EDUCATION 340
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 37
  • ACCOUNTING 21
  • ENGLISH 14
  • FINANCE 12
  • MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 10

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 11 entries 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 #41 counts this page's cases only.

28 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 Poultry Cutter and Trimmer, 780 of 784. 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 784 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 41. 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 764 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 NC. 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

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.

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