In 2009, US employers submitted 311,972 H1-B Visa applications(inclulding renew, transfer and non-cap). 22, 416 of them were denied or withdrawn.
During the same period, Department of Labor made decisions on 33,165 employment based Green Card applications(PERM). This number is only about half of the 2008 number.
The good news is, 23,309 employers who have never filed H1b visa or employment based green card applications started doing so in 2009!
The default setting reports the data between 2001 and 2010. To see the figures of 2009, please click "Since 2009" on the top of each report.