Updated
PERM sponsorship by industry
Every industry, by the NAICS code the employer put on the form, with 20 or more PERM decisions since FY2016. The titles are the Census Bureau's.
Industries with a page
937
The ten busiest hold
48%
of 993,630 decisions
The 12 busiest, by decisions
- Custom Computer Programming Services 201,499
- Computer Systems Design Services 73,729
- Electronic Shopping and Mail-Order Houses (group 45411) 37,410
- Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools 28,854
- Software Publishers 26,492
- Poultry Processing 24,624
- Other Computer Related Services 23,289
- Electronic Computer Manufacturing 23,016
- Engineering Services 19,839
- Limited-Service Restaurants 14,889
- Full-Service Restaurants 13,787
- Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services 13,526
All 937 industries
All 937 industries
The industry is the NAICS code the employer entered on the form. DOL publishes the code alone. The title is the Census Bureau's, and a code Census never defined takes its parent group's title.
Case data through Jun 30, 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
What this data includes
Case data: Decided PERM cases only. A case still waiting isn't in here, so counts and durations describe finished cases.
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- An email when DOL moves it
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