Find a prevailing wage request

Before an employer can file a PERM, it has to ask the Department of Labor what the job legally has to pay. That request is form ETA-9141. DOL answers with a prevailing wage determination, and the PERM offer can't come in under it. Case numbers start with P-. PERM Tracker holds every decided wage request in DOL's published files, from October 2023 to the end of DOL's newest file.

Yes. DOL answers per case for anything still moving, so a P- number that has no decision yet still resolves here, and PERM Tracker asks DOL directly if it hasn't seen the number before. A pending record can't show the wage itself, because DOL publishes that only when the case reaches a quarterly disclosure file. Look one up on case status.

DOL publishes the filing month it's currently working rather than an average wait, and it runs two separate queues: one for jobs priced from the OEWS survey and a slower one for everything else. The wage-request calculator reads today's published position and estimates from it, and processing times carries DOL's own figure with the date it published it.

DOL numbers every filing from one running counter. This site walks it two or three times a day for new filings, then re-checks each request until DOL decides.

One filed today shows up after the next check. A pending one older than the live record has reached so far is absent until the walk gets there, and a decided one outside the quarterly files loaded here has no wage yet. Have the number? The case lookup asks DOL live, so it finds a case this list doesn't hold yet, and a mistyped number is worth checking first.