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PERM sponsorship by industry

PERM in Electronic Shopping and Mail-Order Houses (group 45411)

NAICS 454111

Decisions
37,410
Approved
99.7%
Median certified wage
$103,584
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  • withdrawn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Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn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 2,230 11 57
FY2017 2,078 13 51
FY2018 5,055 14 111
FY2019 3,626 17 49
FY2020 3,523 7 38
FY2021 5,697 7 50
FY2022 6,079 18 107
FY2023 5,351 14 286
FY2024 2,891 10 18
FY2025 1 1 0

Top sponsors

Top occupations

Worksite states

  • Washington 25,297
  • California 6,049
  • New York 1,280
  • Massachusetts 1,245
  • Texas 1,153
  • Virginia 773
  • New Jersey 417
  • Illinois 196
  • Arizona 171
  • Tennessee 129

Worksite cities

Countries of citizenship

Worker's education

  • Master's 25,627
  • Bachelor's 9,881
  • Doctorate 1,142
  • None 621
  • Other 92
  • High School 35
  • Associate's 10

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 26,769
  • L-1 4,628
  • F-1 3,558
  • TN 1,338
  • E-3 390
  • H-4 115
  • O-1 105
  • H-1B1 103
  • L-2 77
  • J-1 71

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.