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PERM sponsorship by industry

PERM in Offices of Real Estate Agents and Brokers

NAICS 531210

Decisions
880
Approved
90.1%
Median certified wage
$63,000
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  • withdrawn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Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn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 44 8 2
FY2017 57 8 2
FY2018 86 6 3
FY2019 42 8 3
FY2020 60 7 1
FY2021 64 1 8
FY2022 54 11 1
FY2023 68 10 8
FY2024 68 6 5
FY2025 137 3 6
FY2026 74 15 4

Top sponsors

Top occupations

Worksite states

  • Florida 317
  • California 147
  • New York 102
  • Texas 101
  • Georgia 29
  • Washington 24
  • Illinois 23
  • Massachusetts 20
  • New Jersey 20
  • Virginia 16

Worksite cities

Countries of citizenship

Worker's education

  • Bachelor's 249
  • Master's 160
  • None 114
  • High School 66
  • Associate's 20
  • Other 13
  • Doctorate 3

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 192
  • F-1 96
  • E-2 73
  • NOT IN USA 41
  • B-2 37
  • TN 17
  • J-1 7
  • F-2 6
  • E-1 6
  • L-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.