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PERM sponsorship by industry

PERM in All Other Miscellaneous Store Retailers (except Tobacco Stores)

NAICS 453998

Decisions
602
Approved
97.3%
Median certified wage
$108,264
Years
FY2016 to FY2025

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  • withdrawn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Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn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 61 1 2
FY2017 53 2 3
FY2018 122 5 5
FY2019 74 3 3
FY2020 208 1 0
FY2021 25 2 2
FY2022 8 0 3
FY2023 3 2 2
FY2024 5 0 0
FY2025 7 0 0

Top sponsors

Top occupations

Worksite states

  • Massachusetts 322
  • Minnesota 106
  • California 34
  • New York 23
  • Texas 20
  • Florida 18
  • Nebraska 13
  • Georgia 11
  • Arizona 7
  • New Jersey 7

Worksite cities

Countries of citizenship

  • India 349
  • China 79
  • South Korea 20
  • Canada 17
  • Pakistan 14
  • Bangladesh 10
  • Japan 9
  • Nepal 9
  • Mexico 8
  • Turkey 6

Worker's education

  • Master's 350
  • Bachelor's 175
  • None 36
  • High School 16
  • Associate's 8
  • Other 7
  • Doctorate 3

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 474
  • F-1 35
  • TN 10
  • B-2 10
  • NOT IN USA 9
  • E-2 8
  • L-1 4
  • O-1 4
  • E-1 3
  • J-1 3

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.