🔔 DOL H-2A Places of Employment (FY2026 Q3, quarter-to-date)

Structured H-2A places-of-employment (Addendum B) — placement-level agricultural-employer demand — read directly from the official U.S. Department of Labor Office of Foreign Labor Certification class-A bulk disclosure workbook at https://www.dol.gov/media/H-2A_Addendum_B_Employment_FY2026_Q3.xlsx. One record per non-empty, de-duplicated placement row, carried source-native with the value unmodified.

Output is one h2a_employment_record row per result; billing is pay-per-event, the value event being one h-2a employment record (a $0.02 start fee per run, then $0.02 per h-2a employment record). Source: www.dol.gov.

Who buys this

Buyers usually search for H-2A employers or H-2A visa employers.

• Analysts, researchers and journalists who need H-2A employers as clean rows.
• Risk, insurance and planning teams joining H-2A visa employers to their own data.
• Data teams that want the official source without building a scraper.

📊 Sample Output

Real rows from run XJCfgIpRZ8IdiSfuB on build 0.1.5 (2026-09-19), the same input as the Quick start below — every value is as the source published it (emails masked, long text shortened):

case_number	job_order_number	business_name	place_city	place_state	requested_begin_date
H-300-25184-152191	JO-A-300-25184-152191	ROQUE FRAMS LLC	Zolfo springs	FLORIDA	2025-09-15
H-300-25184-152191	JO-A-300-25184-152191	Juarez Nursery Inc.	Zolfo Springs	FLORIDA	2025-09-10
H-300-25184-152191	JO-A-300-25184-152191	ROQUE FARMS LLC	FORT MEADE	FLORIDA	2025-09-10
H-300-25184-152191	JO-A-300-25184-152191	ROQUE FARMS LLC	Plant city	FLORIDA	2025-09-10
H-300-25184-152191	JO-A-300-25184-152191	ROQUE FARMS LLC	DOVER	FLORIDA	2025-09-15
H-300-25192-170298	JO-A-300-25192-170298	Eastern Agribusiness LLC	AYDEN	NORTH CAROLINA	2025-09-09
H-300-25192-170298	JO-A-300-25192-170298	Eastern Agribusiness LLC	LA GRANGE	NORTH CAROLINA	2025-09-09
H-300-25192-170298	JO-A-300-25192-170298	HAM FARMS	Snow Hill	NORTH CAROLINA	2025-09-09

The run finished with the status message: NORMAL: 50 unique rows (0 duplicates collapsed) from Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:52:46 GMT. billable=50

✅ What you get

Each row is flat JSON with these fields (from the dataset schema and the sample run; a field the source does not publish for a given row is null):

• record_type (string/null) — e.g. h2a_employment_record
• source (string/null) — e.g. h2a-employment-locations
• program (string/null) — e.g. H-2A
• case_number (string/null) — e.g. H-300-25184-152191
• job_order_number (string/null) — e.g. JO-A-300-25184-152191
• business_name (string/null) — e.g. ROQUE FRAMS LLC
• place_city (string/null) — e.g. Zolfo springs
• place_state (string/null) — e.g. FLORIDA
• requested_begin_date (string/null) — e.g. 2025-09-15
• requested_end_date (string/null) — e.g. 2026-06-15
• total_workers (number/string/null) — e.g. 30
• natural_grain (string/null) — e.g. H-300-25184-152191 | JO-A-300-25184-152191 | ROQUE FRAMS LLC | Zolfo springs | F
• record_key (string/null) — e.g. 1eab7055cf271a0d5b349b10f4d373dd
• quarter_to_date (string/null) — e.g. FY2026 Q3
• source_attribution (string/null) — e.g. U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification
• changes_indicated (string/null) — e.g. reformatted from the DOL OFLC disclosure workbook to JSON; values unmodified; al
• third_party_content (string/null) — e.g. none — official U.S. Department of Labor OFLC disclosure data; no third-party ri
• allowlist_note (string/null) — e.g. FIELD CEILING (placement-level): case identifier, job-order identifier, agricult
• employment_note (string/null) — e.g. the H-2A Addendum B PLACES-OF-EMPLOYMENT table — PLACEMENT-LEVEL employer demand
• grain_note (string/null) — e.g. CASE_NUMBER is NOT unique — one H-2A case has many places of employment. The rec
• quarter_to_date_note (string/null) — e.g. FY2026 Q3 QUARTER-TO-DATE living workbook — a moving cut refreshed through the q
• source_url (string/null) — e.g. https://www.dol.gov/media/H-2A_Addendum_B_Employment_FY2026_Q3.xlsx
• release_date (string/null) — e.g. Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:52:46 GMT
• observed_at (string/null) — e.g. 2026-09-19T18:26:39Z
• release_checksum (string/null) — e.g. 1562c35c3a3d000c53b030de8639b820:1786128766.162314
• license (string/null) — e.g. U.S. public domain — a work of the U.S. Government (17 U.S.C. sec.105). U.S. Dep
• attribution (string/null) — e.g. U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification (https://www.dol

✅ What you get

• record_type (string/null) — e.g. h2a_employment_record
• source (string/null) — e.g. h2a-employment-locations
• program (string/null) — e.g. H-2A
• case_number (string/null) — e.g. H-300-25184-152191
• job_order_number (string/null) — e.g. JO-A-300-25184-152191
• business_name (string/null) — e.g. ROQUE FRAMS LLC
• place_city (string/null) — e.g. Zolfo springs
• place_state (string/null) — e.g. FLORIDA
• requested_begin_date (string/null) — e.g. 2025-09-15
• requested_end_date (string/null) — e.g. 2026-06-15
• total_workers (number/string/null) — e.g. 30
• natural_grain (string/null) — e.g. H-300-25184-152191 | JO-A-300-25184-152191 | ROQUE FRAMS LLC | Zolfo springs | F
• record_key (string/null) — e.g. 1eab7055cf271a0d5b349b10f4d373dd
• quarter_to_date (string/null) — e.g. FY2026 Q3
• source_attribution (string/null) — e.g. U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification
• changes_indicated (string/null) — e.g. reformatted from the DOL OFLC disclosure workbook to JSON; values unmodified; al
• third_party_content (string/null) — e.g. none — official U.S. Department of Labor OFLC disclosure data; no third-party ri
• allowlist_note (string/null) — e.g. FIELD CEILING (placement-level): case identifier, job-order identifier, agricult
• employment_note (string/null) — e.g. the H-2A Addendum B PLACES-OF-EMPLOYMENT table — PLACEMENT-LEVEL employer demand
• grain_note (string/null) — e.g. CASE_NUMBER is NOT unique — one H-2A case has many places of employment. The rec
• quarter_to_date_note (string/null) — e.g. FY2026 Q3 QUARTER-TO-DATE living workbook — a moving cut refreshed through the q
• source_url (string/null) — e.g. https://www.dol.gov/media/H-2A_Addendum_B_Employment_FY2026_Q3.xlsx
• release_date (string/null) — e.g. Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:52:46 GMT
• observed_at (string/null) — e.g. 2026-09-19T18:16:34Z
• release_checksum (string/null) — e.g. 1562c35c3a3d000c53b030de8639b820:1786128766.162314
• license (string/null) — e.g. U.S. public domain — a work of the U.S. Government (17 U.S.C. sec.105). U.S. Dep
• attribution (string/null) — e.g. U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification (https://www.dol

What a record is

One h2a_employment_record per place-of-employment placement: the case identifier (case_number), the job-order identifier (job_order_number), the agricultural business (business_name), the place of employment city + state (place_city, place_state), the requested begin / end dates (requested_begin_date, requested_end_date), and the total workers (total_workers) requested at that placement.

The field ceiling — placement facts only

This is a placement addendum, so the field ceiling is deliberately tight: case identifier, job-order identifier, agricultural business, place-of-employment city + state (coarse geography), requested begin / end dates, and total workers only. Every street address, postal code, and free-text additional-place-of-employment information column is dropped at ingest and never emitted — the code only ever copies the allow-listed columns. This is verified by an offline test that feeds a row carrying street/postal/free-text values and asserts none reach output, plus a live leak check on the real file.

⚙️ Sample inputs

1. Quick start — the Store example (this is what the sample above came from)

{
  "maxRecords": 10
}

The sample run charged exactly: 2 × $0.02 apify-actor-start + 50 × $0.02 h2a_employment_record = $1.04 on the Free tier — every delivered row was billed. If you leave maxRecords out, the run delivers at most 50 rows (the schema default); pass a number up to 200000 for a bigger export. An explicit value is always honoured up to that maximum.

2. A smaller, narrowed run

{
  "maxRecords": 5
}

Caps the run at 5 rows — about $0.12 on the Free tier ($0.02 start + 5 × $0.02).

3. A full-size run

{
  "maxRecords": 5000
}

Up to 5000 rows — about $100.02 on the Free tier ($0.02 start + 5000 × $0.02) if the source has that many; maxRecords goes up to 200000.

4. A filtered run

{
  "maxRecords": 10,
  "fieldMatch": {
    "business_name": "ROQUE FRAMS LLC"
  }
}

Keeps only rows whose business_name contains ROQUE FRAMS LLC (a value from the sample run above), matched case-insensitively after the source is read and before the maxRecords cap, so the cap counts matches and only delivered matches are billed. searchText does the same across every column. Zero matches end the run as EMPTY_SELECTION with no row charged — if the source has moved on since that sample run, pick a value you see in your own first run. The source is still read in full — this narrows what you receive and pay for, not what the source serves.

🧾 JSON sample record

One real record from run XJCfgIpRZ8IdiSfuB, exactly as it lands in the dataset (emails masked, long text shortened):

{
  "record_type": "h2a_employment_record",
  "source": "h2a-employment-locations",
  "program": "H-2A",
  "case_number": "H-300-25184-152191",
  "job_order_number": "JO-A-300-25184-152191",
  "business_name": "ROQUE FRAMS LLC",
  "place_city": "Zolfo springs",
  "place_state": "FLORIDA",
  "requested_begin_date": "2025-09-15",
  "requested_end_date": "2026-06-15",
  "total_workers": 30,
  "natural_grain": "H-300-25184-152191 | JO-A-300-25184-152191 | ROQUE FRAMS LLC | Zolfo springs | FLORIDA | 2025-09-15 | 2026-06-15 | 30",
  "record_key": "1eab7055cf271a0d5b349b10f4d373dd",
  "quarter_to_date": "FY2026 Q3",
  "source_attribution": "U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification",
  "changes_indicated": "reformatted from the DOL OFLC disclosure workbook to JSON; values unmodified; allow-listed structural columns only",
  "third_party_content": "none — official U.S. Department of Labor OFLC disclosure data; no third-party rights/trademarks/logos",
  "allowlist_note": "FIELD CEILING (placement-level): case identifier, job-order identifier, agricultural business, place-of-employment city + state (coarse) geography, requested begin/end dates and total workers ONLY. Street address, postal code and free-text ",
  "employment_note": "the H-2A Addendum B PLACES-OF-EMPLOYMENT table — PLACEMENT-LEVEL employer demand (where the work is, over which requested dates, for how many workers). This is the WHERE / HOW-MANY placement addendum, NOT the certification decision facts: i",
  "grain_note": "CASE_NUMBER is NOT unique — one H-2A case has many places of employment. The record key is a FULL-ROW MD5 over the emitted natural grain (case, job order, business, city, state, dates, workers); exact-duplicate placement rows collapse and a",
  "quarter_to_date_note": "FY2026 Q3 QUARTER-TO-DATE living workbook — a moving cut refreshed through the quarter, not a final annual file; vintage = source ETag + Last-Modified carried on the run_receipt.",
  "source_url": "https://www.dol.gov/media/H-2A_Addendum_B_Employment_FY2026_Q3.xlsx",
  "release_date": "Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:52:46 GMT",
  "observed_at": "2026-09-19T18:26:39Z",
  "release_checksum": "1562c35c3a3d000c53b030de8639b820:1786128766.162314",
  "license": "U.S. public domain — a work of the U.S. Government (17 U.S.C. sec.105). U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification disclosure data: used, reproduced and distributed without permission and credited to the U.S. Department",
  "attribution": "U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification (https://www.dol.gov/) — public domain"
}

🔧 How it works

Source. The actor reads www.dol.gov — endpoints: https://www.dol.gov, https://www.dol.gov/, https://www.dol.gov/media/, https://www.dol.gov/media/H-2A_Addendum_B_Employment_FY2026_Q3.xlsx. Public pages and feeds only; nothing behind a login.

Transport. Plain HTTPS from the Apify platform, no proxy. robots.txt is read first and a disallowed path is never fetched. Every request carries an identified contact User-Agent. Pacing: CRAWL_DELAY=0.0.

Terminal states. A run ends NORMAL, CAPPED (your cap was reached), PARTIAL (something was withheld and the message says what), GENUINE_EMPTY (the source was read and truly had nothing in scope) or BLOCKED (the source refused or changed shape — the run FAILS loud and bills nothing). A zero-row run is never reported as a silent success.

Charging. Each h-2a employment record is charged at the moment it is pushed (h2a_employment_record); a row that fails to charge is not delivered, so the dataset count always equals the charged count.

🔧 How it works

A full-row key — one case has many places of employment

CASE_NUMBER is not unique: a single H-2A case lists many places of employment (about 10,364 cases across 188,580 placement rows). The record key is a full-row MD5 over the emitted natural grain — case, job order, business, city, state, requested dates and total workers — and exact-duplicate placement rows collapse and are never billed twice. The readable natural_grain is carried alongside the key.

Placement demand — not the certification decision

This is the where / how-many placement addendum (employer demand by location and worker count), not the certification decision facts. The H-2A certification master (h2a-labor-certifications — employer, occupation, SOC, wage, worksite, dates, statuses) is a separate cell; this Addendum-B placement table and that certification master are never conflated. An employment_note records this on every record.

Quarter-to-date — a living workbook, not a final file

This is the FY2026 Q3 quarter-to-date workbook: a moving cut refreshed through the quarter, not a final annual file. A quarter_to_date label rides every record and the run receipt carries the source ETag and Last-Modified as the vintage. The workbook's declared sheet dimension is padded with blank rows; only rows carrying a case_number are data — blank padding is skipped and never billed (non-empty-row law).

Door

Only the official DOL OFLC bulk disclosure workbook on www.dol.gov/media is read (public, logged-out, no API key). No implied DOL affiliation or endorsement.

Source & licence

U.S. public domain — a work of the U.S. Government (17 U.S.C. sec.105). U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification disclosure data: used, reproduced and distributed without permission and credited to the U.S. Department of Labor (https://www.dol.gov/); no implied DOL affiliation or endorsement; third-party rights/trademarks/logos excluded. https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/performance

What is not done. No login, no cookie or CAPTCHA bypass, no private or personal-account data, no browser automation.

💰 Pricing example

Event	Free	Bronze	Silver	Gold
Actor Start (apify-actor-start)	$0.02	$0.02	$0.02	$0.02
H-2A employment record (h2a_employment_record)	$0.02	$0.018	$0.016	$0.0134

Worked at the live Free-tier price:

• 8 h-2a employment records: $0.02 start + 8 × $0.02 = $0.18
• 25 h-2a employment records: $0.02 start + 25 × $0.02 = $0.52
• 50 h-2a employment records: $0.02 start + 50 × $0.02 = $1.02

A run that delivers zero rows charges the $0.02 start fee only. A BLOCKED run (source refused) fails loud and charges no value event. The start fee is charged once per GB of run memory; the default run memory is 4096 MB.

Yield on the sample run: NORMAL: 50 unique rows (0 duplicates collapsed) from Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:52:46 GMT. billable=50. maxRecords is a hard ceiling on what is delivered and billed, never a target.

⚖️ Legal & ToS

This actor reads public, logged-out pages and feeds published by www.dol.gov. It collects only what the source publishes to any visitor, keeps to the source's robots rules (checked on every run), identifies itself with a contact User-Agent, and does not access accounts, private data or anything behind authentication. Use the output in line with the source's terms and your local law; the intended use is B2B research and monitoring.

❓ FAQ

Q: Do I need an API key or a login?
A: No. The source (www.dol.gov) is read logged-out; the input schema has no key field and the actor carries no secrets.

Q: Why did my run return 0 rows?
A: Read the run's status message. GENUINE_EMPTY means the source was read and had nothing in scope for your input; BLOCKED means the source refused and the run failed without billing a value event — retry later or narrow the input. A zero-row run bills the start fee only.

Q: How many rows can one run return?
A: Up to maxRecords (default 50). Raise the cap for a bigger run; you pay per delivered row.

Q: How fresh is the data?
A: Every run reads the source live at run time; nothing is cached between runs. Put it on a schedule for a continuous feed.

Q: What formats can I export?
A: The dataset downloads as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or RSS from the run's Dataset tab or the Apify API, and any run can push to a webhook or integration.

Q: How is this different from the other NexGen Watch actors actors?
A: Same output shape and billing model; this one covers www.dol.gov. The siblings under Related Actors cover the other sources or slices — run several on one schedule for a combined feed.

Q: Are there rate limits?
A: The actor paces itself against the source (CRAWL_DELAY=0.0) and honours its robots rules; there is no per-buyer limit beyond your Apify plan's concurrency.

🆘 Troubleshooting

• Run FAILED with BLOCKED → the source refused the request or changed its page shape → nothing was billed beyond the start fee; retry after a while, and if it persists open an Issue with the run id.
• Status says CAPPED → your cap (maxRecords) was reached → raise it for a bigger run.
• Input validation error on start → a field is outside the schema's allowed values → start from the Quick start block and change one field at a time.
• Run TIMED-OUT → a very wide request on a slow day → raise the run timeout in Run options or narrow the input; what was delivered before the timeout is still in the dataset.

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