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PERM sponsorship by industry

PERM in All Other Specialty Trade Contractors

NAICS 238990

Decisions
788
Approved
82.7%
Median certified wage
$36,000
Years
FY2016 to FY2026

Year by year

  • certified
  • denied
  • withdrawn

Fiscal years run October to September. FY2016 to FY2023 come from DOL's closed-year files, 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Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn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 22 4 1
FY2017 25 8 6
FY2018 64 17 0
FY2019 41 19 3
FY2020 97 8 10
FY2021 101 13 4
FY2022 38 9 1
FY2023 27 29 6
FY2024 46 7 9
FY2025 105 3 3
FY2026 48 11 3

Top sponsors

Top occupations

Worksite states

  • Florida 184
  • Texas 123
  • New York 77
  • Arizona 55
  • North Carolina 50
  • California 49
  • Massachusetts 39
  • Maryland 37
  • Virginia 26
  • Georgia 26

Worksite cities

Countries of citizenship

Worker's education

  • None 363
  • High School 95
  • Bachelor's 72
  • Master's 49
  • Other 20
  • Associate's 4

Visa held when filed

  • H-2B 160
  • NOT IN USA 78
  • H-1B 48
  • B-2 36
  • F-1 30
  • TPS 21
  • EWI 19
  • E-2 14
  • L-1 10
  • TN 9

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: DOL quarterly disclosure files (flag.dol.gov) · data through Jun 30, 2026 · quarterly Decided PERM cases only. A case still waiting is not in here, so counts and durations describe finished cases, not the queue.