Data · DOL figures as of August 28, 2026
Live PERM data and free calculators
Live figures from the Department of Labor, and free calculators built on them.
DOL is deciding cases filed
November 2025
Analyst review, the queue nearly every case sits in.
Average to a determination
372 days
Over cases DOL decided recently. An RFI or audit can make an individual case take longer.
Wage requests pending
50,300
Prevailing wage, the stage before recruitment.
Where is your case? When could it be decided?
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The queue, oldest first
Every PERM waits in filing-month order. Find your month.
Seven calculators
Decision times, the wage queue, the I-140 backlog, the I-485 queue, priority dates, the whole green card drawn to scale, and every statutory deadline.
The whole field, five ways
Every filing in DOL's quarterly disclosure files, cut by place, pay, sponsor, firm and outcome.
By state
An interactive map of filings, approval rates and wages per worksite state.
Open →Wages
Median offered wages by occupation, from the wage each employer committed to pay.
Open →Employers
The hundred biggest sponsors, ranked, searchable, with their track records.
Open →Law firms
Who files the most PERM cases, with volume, approval rate and median days.
Open →Denial rates
What gets denied, by wage, by year, and by what the form declares.
Open →Case search
Every decided case DOL has published, searchable by employer, job and outcome.
Open →The queue, day by day
Queue backlog
Every filing month's pending cases, split across DOL's separate queues.
Open →Daily activity
How many cases DOL decides each day, measured from status changes.
Open →RFI and audits
How often cases leave filing order, and what happens to them after.
Open →Visa bulletin
84 months of cutoff history, and whether your date is current.
Open →How every figure is computed: the methodology page.
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The same date math as the deadline calculator, applied to your cases, with alerts and calendar sync. The account is free.
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