The companies sponsoring the most employment-based green cards aren’t the ones most people would guess. Microsoft leads the current window with 4,840 PERM filings, but half of the top ten are food processors, staffing firms and trailer manufacturers, because PERM is how employers of every kind hire permanently when the domestic pipeline can’t fill the role.
Everything below comes from the Department of Labor's own quarterly disclosure files: 259,489 unique decided cases, unioned across quarters and de-duplicated by case number. Nothing is modeled. The live, searchable version of this table covers the top hundred on our employers page.
The top ten sponsors right now
Names appear exactly as DOL prints them, which is why they read as legal entities. A company you know by one name can file under several.
What the list actually says
Tech is the volume leader, not the whole story. Microsoft, Oracle, JPMorgan Chase and NVIDIA all sit in the top eleven, and Software Developers alone account for 57,876 filings, by far the largest occupation. But a beef processor in Georgia, a catfish producer in Mississippi and a trailer plant in Wisconsin each out-file Walmart. Sponsorship concentration follows labor shortage, not industry glamour.
Approval rates run high for everyone. Nearly every top sponsor certifies above 99%. That’s what the process looks like when recruitment is run correctly at scale: PERM denials concentrate in one-off filings with documentation problems, not in the high-volume programs. The visible exception is NVIDIA at 92.8% in this window; the files record the outcome, not the reason, so we won’t guess at one.
A big sponsor isn’t a faster one. DOL works a single national queue, oldest first, whoever filed the case. Your employer's volume says how practiced their process is; your own decision date depends on your filing month, which the decision estimator reads against the live queue.
How to use this if you’re the beneficiary
Search your employer on the full top-100 table. Three things are worth reading off their row: filings (a practiced program), the approval rate (a clean one), and the median days (which will sit near the national median, because the queue is national). If your employer isn’t in the top hundred, that says nothing bad. The field has tens of thousands of sponsors, and most file a handful of cases a year.
How to use this if you’re filing
The medians are the benchmark: the current national median runs around 480 days from filing to decision, and it barely moves by state or by sponsor. The state map and the wages page carry the other two cuts of the same files, and the methodology shows every figure's recipe.
