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PERM sponsorship by industry

PERM in Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation

NAICS 481111

Decisions
1,830
Approved
92.9%
Median certified wage
$100,359
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  • withdrawn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Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn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 72 1 2
FY2017 102 5 4
FY2018 217 15 23
FY2019 122 14 38
FY2020 163 21 16
FY2021 89 7 1
FY2022 97 8 1
FY2023 88 13 5
FY2024 126 31 4
FY2025 183 2 21
FY2026 334 4 1

Top sponsors

Top occupations

Worksite states

  • Texas 814
  • Massachusetts 350
  • Georgia 124
  • Florida 118
  • Arizona 99
  • Northern Mariana Islands 74
  • New York 70
  • Washington 35
  • Oklahoma 22
  • Ohio 21

Worksite cities

Countries of citizenship

Worker's education

  • Master's 484
  • Bachelor's 360
  • None 338
  • High School 58
  • Doctorate 15
  • Associate's 7
  • Other 6

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 819
  • CW-1 46
  • F-1 34
  • L-1 29
  • E-3 16
  • E-2 11
  • B-2 9
  • NOT IN USA 4
  • TN 4
  • F-2 4

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.