Sector trend · NAICS 11

Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting

PERM — Permanent Employment Certification (ETA-9089) Employer's DOL filing to sponsor a specific worker for an employment-based green card after testing the U.S. job marketTemporary visa (often F-1 student → H-1B)PERM — employer asks DOL to certify the job (you are here)I-140 — employer petitions USCISPriority-date wait (varies by country of birth — years to decades)Green card (I-485 / consular)DOL certifies paperwork — it does not issue green cards; per-position; certified ≠ granted. NEVER "work permit"Common path — some categories skip PERM (EB-1, NIW); timelines vary widely by country of birth. Educational info, not legal advice.Official source ↗ (green-card) labor-certification filing volume and median offered wage for the Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting sector, by U.S. fiscal year. Aggregate counts from public DOL records.

Total PERM — Permanent Employment Certification (ETA-9089) Employer's DOL filing to sponsor a specific worker for an employment-based green card after testing the U.S. job marketTemporary visa (often F-1 student → H-1B)PERM — employer asks DOL to certify the job (you are here)I-140 — employer petitions USCISPriority-date wait (varies by country of birth — years to decades)Green card (I-485 / consular)DOL certifies paperwork — it does not issue green cards; per-position; certified ≠ granted. NEVER "work permit"Common path — some categories skip PERM (EB-1, NIW); timelines vary widely by country of birth. Educational info, not legal advice.Official source ↗ Filings
15,017
Employers (2026)
496
Median Wage (2026)
$33,946

Context & analysis

Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting employers appear in the PERM record largely for specialized roles such as agronomists, food scientists, and farm-operations managers, rather than seasonal field work, which runs through the separate H-2A program. Filing volume here is modest next to the services sectors, and median offered wages track the technical and managerial occupations that dominate the sector's permanent-residence sponsorship.

Filing volume by fiscal year

Median offered wage by fiscal year

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