Valley Queen Cheese Factory, Inc.
Employer · South Dakota, United States
- Employer address
- South Dakota, United States
- Applications on record
- 78
- FY2025 applications
- 2
- FY2026 to 30 June
- 21
- Programmes
- PERM · LCA
- Certified (last three years)
- 100.0%
- Median offered wage
- $62,784
- Most common occupation
- Food Scientists and Technologists
- H-1B dependent (as declared)
- No
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Applications year by year
Valley Queen Cheese Factory, Inc. appears in 78 applications filed with the U.S. Department of Labor between fiscal 2015 and fiscal 2026 (to 30 June). In fiscal 2025 it filed 2.
Applications by fiscal year — Valley Queen Cheese Factory, Inc.
Data table
| FY2015 | 6 |
| FY2016 | 6 |
| FY2017 | 7 |
| FY2018 | 1 |
| FY2019 | 11 |
| FY2020 | 0 |
| FY2021 | 24 |
| FY2022 | 0 |
| FY2023 | 0 |
| FY2024 | 0 |
| FY2025 | 2 |
| FY2026* | 21 |
| Fiscal year | LCA | PERM |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026* | 4 | 17 |
| FY2025 | 1 | 1 |
| FY2024 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2023 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2022 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2021 | 2 | 22 |
| FY2020 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2019 | 1 | 10 |
| FY2018 | 1 | 0 |
| FY2017 | 1 | 6 |
| FY2016 | 6 | 0 |
| FY2015 | 6 | 0 |
Where the jobs are
Worksite of each application as filed (first worksite where several are listed).
Valley Queen Cheese Factory, Inc.: applications by worksite state
Data table
| State | Applications |
|---|---|
| SD | 78 |
- Milbank, SD78
What they hire for and pay
Occupations, job titles and offered wages as stated on the applications.
- Cheese Production Scientist15
- Research and Development Specialist1
- Operations Research Analyst1
- Whey Production Scientist1
- Workflow Automation Analyst1
- Business Analyst - Operations1
- Cheese Production Lead Scientist1
- Systems Engineer1
Offered annual wage, FY2024–FY2026, 10th to 90th percentile
Median $62,784; middle half $59,010 to $83,565 · median prevailing wage $59,010 (marker) · 5 applications.
- Level I5
H-1B petitions decided by USCIS
Approvals and denials of Form I-129 petitions, by USCIS fiscal year. Linked by employer name, state and the last four digits of the tax ID.
Approved H-1B petitions (initial + continuing)
Data table
| FY2015 | 2 |
| FY2016 | 1 |
| FY2017 | 5 |
| FY2019 | 3 |
| FY2020 | 1 |
| FY2021 | 1 |
| FY2022 | 2 |
| Fiscal year | Initial approvals | Initial denials | Continuing approvals | Continuing denials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2022 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| FY2021 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| FY2020 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| FY2019 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2017 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2015 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Law firms on the filings
Firms named as the employer's representative (firm names only).
Among employers in South Dakota
Valley Queen Cheese Factory, Inc. has 78 work visa applications on record (FY2015–FY2026), ranking #20 of 528 sponsoring employers in South Dakota and #14,785 of 168,030 in the United States; that is 0.65% of the applications filed by employers based in South Dakota.
- Rank in South Dakota
- 20 of 528
- Rank in the United States
- 14,785 of 168,030
- Share of South Dakota's applications
- 0.65%
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- 4
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