PERM Occupations · A-Z index · W
Occupations beginning with W
20 of the 1,014 occupations with a page here, 2.0% of them. The busiest is Web and Digital Interface Designers with 852 filings; the smallest carry 5. Every name is DOL's own spelling from the disclosure files.
All 20, alphabetically
The number beside each name is how many PERM cases DOL's current disclosure window records for it. Opening one gives that occupation's certifications, denials, median days and where it sits against the field.
- Waiters and Waitresses 497
- Waiters and Waitresses 105
- Warehouse Manager 12
- Watch and Clock Repairers 11
- WATER WELL PUMP TECHNICIAN 6
- Water/Wastewater Engineers 145
- Web and Digital Interface Designers 852
- Web Developers 698
- WEB DEVELOPERS 19
- WELDER 10
- Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers 131
- WELDING, SOLDERING, AND BRAZEN MACHINE SETTERS, OPERATORS 13
- Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders 14
- Wholesale and Retail Buyers, Except Farm Products 126
- Wholesale and Retail Buyers, Except Farm Products 45
- Wind Energy Development Managers 7
- Wind Energy Engineers 8
- Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing 11
- Writers and Authors 20
- Writers and Authors 5
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Employers and firms: Derived from the disclosure corpus · data through Aug 26, 2026 · rebuilt with each quarterly ingest
Case data: DOL quarterly disclosure files (flag.dol.gov) · data through Jun 30, 2026 · quarterly