Clear sources. Clear limits.

Published coverage

Current-year sources are added as the government publishes them. Partial periods show their exact dates; compare counts across the same number of months.

Published releases cover FY2016–FY2026. Coverage can differ by source and fiscal year. Only the verified releases listed here are searchable; additional releases appear after validation. Public disclosures do not cover every visa program, pending application, employer or worker.

Three sources, three different stages

How we treat employer names

DOL records are grouped by normalized reported legal name and employer city, state and country. Separate address groups stay visible. USCIS profiles preserve individual published employer/address/industry rows.

Names are evidence from the source, not a verified corporate registry. Brands, subsidiaries and corporate families are not silently merged across sources.

Wages and comparisons

Wage summaries use each case’s positive lower reported wage in annual units, with current status exactly Certified. LCA requires reported full-time Y. PERM excludes explicit part-time N and retains cases where full-time is unreported. Hourly, weekly, monthly and other units remain visible in source records but are excluded from annual summaries.

The FY2016 LCA files report wages but leave the full-time indicator blank. Annual wage summaries require a reported full-time position, so FY2016 LCA medians and distributions are unavailable. Reported wages remain visible in individual source records.

Medians and the middle 50% interval are calculated from underlying case values. Comparisons use the same source, occupation, state and period. A missing annual wage sample is shown as unavailable, rather than $0. Employer-entered errors may remain in public disclosures; these figures are not verified total compensation.

Certified counts include only the source status “Certified”; certified-expired, certified-withdrawn, denied and withdrawn cases stay in total disclosed cases but are excluded from that measure.

Locations, periods and updates

DOL discovery and pay filters use the first reported worksite per case. Additional LCA worksites are a separate one-to-many source and are not joined into case totals, which would inflate counts.

Fiscal years run October 1–September 30. DOL periods follow determination dates; USCIS follows first recorded decisions. Files are archived with their source URL, checksum and import time. Source data may be revised; updates are published only after validation.

The FY2025 LCA quarterly files linked by DOL contain separate decision quarters. Historical quarterly files can overlap. The import examines actual dates, combines case records, and retains the latest case determination within each fiscal year. Published file counts and program-summary counts may differ; no totals are forced to match.

These are dated public-source snapshots. Published coverage updates as additional fiscal-year releases pass validation. A backfill being processed does not become searchable until its source counts and integrity checks have passed.