If you're looking for an employer that sponsors green cards for the work you do, DOL's records answer it directly. Every PERM application names an occupation code, and DOL publishes the decided ones. Grouped by occupation, they show which employers file for your job, how many, and what they offered.
Where these numbers come from
DOL's PERM disclosure files for fiscal years 2024 to 2026, through June 30, 2026: 373,939 decided cases. Read from this site's occupation pages on October 16, 2026. A case still waiting at DOL isn't in them, so the last step below checks current activity.
Who files for four common jobs
| Occupation (SOC code) | Decided PERM cases | Median offered wage | Employers filing the most |
|---|---|---|---|
| Software Developers (15-1252) | 76,524 | $139,128 | Microsoft 4,310; Oracle America 1,599; JPMorgan Chase 1,137; Wal-Mart Associates 1,031; Apple 1,014; NVIDIA 749 |
| Data Scientists (15-2051) | 6,928 | $136,885 | Microsoft 328; Wal-Mart Associates 220; LinkedIn 113; ByteDance 111; Uber 110; Adobe 77 |
| Mechanical Engineers (17-2141) | 2,992 | $104,832 | Cummins 77; ASML US 69; Rivian 56; KLA 53; Tesla 47; Lucid 39 |
| Accountants and Auditors (13-2011) | 3,686 | $90,979 | Ernst & Young 456; Deloitte Tax 142; PwC 108; KPMG 70; Grant Thornton 68; BDO 44 |
The four rows' own pages: Software Developers, Data Scientists, Mechanical Engineers and Accountants and Auditors. Every occupation with at least one case has its own page under PERM wages by job: 1,410 of them. Each one lists the sponsors and law firms that filed the most, where the jobs are, and the full ladder of offered wages by year and by state.
Reading an occupation page
Match the occupation code as well as the title
Search your job on PERM wages by job. Two codes can carry similar titles, and DOL's files still hold older codes. "Software Developers, Applications" (15-1132) is a retired code, and Google LLC, which filed 1,158 cases under that old code in this window, isn't among the six employers listed for the newer "Software Developers" code. Check both.
Read the sponsor list as volume
The list ranks employers by how many cases they filed under the code. It says who files the most, and big employers lead it because they file the most of everything.
Read the wage as a floor
The median is what employers committed to in federal filings, every experience level and city mixed. Your offer depends on the level and the area: DOL's wage levels and compare my offer narrow it down.
Check who's filing now
Open an employer from the list on PERM employers. Its "Right now" section reads DOL's live record: cases pending today, the newest filings, and wage requests still waiting, which are usually the first step of a new PERM.
The decided record and the live one can differ a lot
The sponsor lists cover cases DOL has already decided. An employer's current activity can look quite different, and its own page shows the live half. On October 16, 2026:
| Employer | PERM cases pending now | Newest PERM filing on record | Wage requests pending now |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Corporation | 598, all on hold since October 8 | September 16, 2026 | 315 |
| Amazon.com Services LLC | 677 | October 15, 2026 | 1,033 |
| Apple Inc. | 259 | October 8, 2026 | 608 |
| Google LLC | 15 | September 25, 2026 | 1,025 |
A large count of pending wage requests beside few new PERMs, as at Google LLC, means the earlier step is busy. It can't say how many of those requests will become PERMs, or under which company name.
Search by job, place and record
Find a sponsor starts from your job. Type it the way you'd say it, and the finder matches it to DOL's occupation code and offers close alternatives. For that job, and a state if you pick one, each employer shows its own PERM filings, approval rate, median offered wage and typical time to a decision. You can filter on those figures, on industry and on cases waiting with DOL now, sort by any column, and open each employer's filings for the job in Find a case. On October 16, 2026, 13,931 sponsors had filed at least one PERM in the last 12 months.
Nobody may charge you to be sponsored
The PERM is the employer's application, and so are its costs. Under 20 CFR 656.12(b), an employer "must not seek or receive payment of any kind" for it, its attorney's fees included, and the rule counts wage deductions, kickbacks and free labor as payment. You may pay for a lawyer of your own, but when one attorney represents both you and the employer, the employer pays. A payment can cost the employer the application, the certification or its right to file (656.12(c)).
So a person who asks you for money to find a sponsor, arrange an offer or file a PERM is asking for what the rule forbids. USCIS warns about job offers sent by email from overseas, "especially if you are asked to pay money to receive a job offer" (Common scams). A real sponsor files under its own name, and every PERM it has filed is on its page here: look it up before you send anything.
Jobs DOL's PERM file barely shows
Registered nurses and physical therapists are on Schedule A, and under 20 CFR 656.15(a) their employers file the labor certification "with the appropriate DHS office, and not with an ETA application processing center." So those cases mostly go straight to USCIS with the I-140, and DOL's PERM files hold only a handful: 9 registered nurse cases in this window.
What this can't tell you
- Whether an employer will sponsor you. That's its decision about one role and one person, and it leaves no public record until a filing exists.
- Which openings an employer has now. DOL's record shows filings, not job ads.
- Why an employer's filings went up or down. Counts and dates are the whole of what the record holds.
