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PERM sponsor, #387 of 70,985 by filings

Abbott Laboratories

Abbott Laboratories sponsors green cards: it filed 21 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 13, 2026. Abbott Laboratories has 18 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Computer Systems Analysts · 16% of its filings
Main worksite
Abbott Park, IL · 36% of its filings
Industry
Pharmaceutical and Medicine Manufacturing · NAICS 3254

Waiting on a case with Abbott Laboratories?

  • When it'll likely be decided
  • An email when DOL moves it

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This rate is level with the field

Over 90 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 6.0% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

94

#387 of 70,985

Certified

89

1 denied

Approval

98.9%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$120,400

offered, per year

Median days

452

14 faster than the field

Right now

DOL's live record of its cases, read every day, and what it has done to them as a group.

In the queue right now 107 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

18

of 107 tracked cases. The other 89 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed March 19, 2025, 19 months ago.

Where those 18 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
1794%

A Department of Labor analyst has the application. This is the main queue, and it is where most pending PERM cases sit.

RECONSIDERATION APPEALS
16%

The employer has asked the same officer who denied the case to look at it again, within 30 days of the denial. The request can only use documents DOL already had, so new evidence can't be added to fix what the denial was based on.

None of this changes one case's wait: DOL works one national line. Where DOL is working now is the figure that does.

From DOL's live status of 107 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 107, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 21, 2026

Follow Abbott Laboratories

An email when DOL moves its cases as a group: five or more on or off hold in a day, or a batch decided well above its usual pace.

What DOL has done to its cases as a group

Nothing employer-wide since this site's record began on August 27, 2026.

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Its newest filings

Filed since DOL's last quarterly file, so the wage and law firm aren't published yet.

The 8 newest. Every filing by this employer is in the case search, live and published together.

Source: DOL's own case-status service, flag.dol.gov, where any of these numbers can be looked up. A filing shows there soon after it's made, months before DOL's quarterly files.

How long it takes

How long their cases are taking

  1. Every employer

    median of 30,678 decisions in the same 90 days

    301 days

Only 4 of their cases were decided in the last 90 days, too few for a median of their own. Filing to decision, over decisions we watched DOL make; withdrawals left out.

Filed today: a new case joins the same line as anyone's, behind 80,135 cases, and would be decided around March 20, 2027 (between February 28, 2027 and April 29, 2027). Estimate another date

Every program

Across DOL's programs

The wage request, the PERM and the H-1B labor condition application, one line each.

PERM (green card)
94 published
18 pending
$120,400 median, n=94
Prevailing wage requests
96 published
18 pending
$118,518 median, n=95
H-1B labor condition applications
594 published
1 pending
$113,000 median, n=594

Its median H-1B wage is $113,000 across 594 LCAs, 6.1% lower than its median PERM wage of $120,400 across 94 cases. Different forms, different years and different jobs sit behind the two medians, so this is a gap in what was filed, not a finding.

Of its 18 pending PERM cases, 1 (5.6%) sit outside DOL's normal queue: 1 under appeal. Where that sits among every employer.

Every case across these programs is in the search.

How these are counted

Medians are of the published rows with a usable wage, annualised from whatever unit the filing quoted, and withheld under 10 wages. DOL publishes no employer number, so filings are matched by the employer's legal name, read under the 2 spellings DOL's files use for it; another employer with the same legal name would be counted here too. The PERM is the green-card step; the wage request comes months before it, and the LCA is the separate form for an H-1B. DOL publishes each in its own file, and its live record shows what is still open.

Its newest wage requests and LCAs

Filed by Abbott Laboratories, newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.

Wage requests

All wage requests by this employer

H-1B LCAs

All H-1B LCAs by this employer

Source: DOL's own case-status service, flag.dol.gov, where any of these numbers can be looked up. A filing shows there soon after it's made, months before DOL's quarterly files.

What its H-1B LCAs were for

From DOL's quarterly LCA files: 594 LCAs filed by Abbott Laboratories, 577 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

93 positions for new employment, 170 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 93 · 16%
  • Change of employer 7e 170 · 29%
  • Continuing 7b 110 · 19%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 98 · 17%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 106 · 18%

Shares of the 577 worker positions requested. These are positions on certified LCAs, not people hired: DOL certifies an LCA before any petition, and many are never used.

What each box on the form means
  • New employment (7a). Starting with a new employer.
  • Change of employer (7e). Moving here from another employer, keeping the visa classification already held.
  • Continuing (7b). Staying with the same employer.
  • Change in previous employment (7c). Same employer, no material change to the job duties.
  • Concurrent employment (7d). Adding this employer while keeping another.
  • Amended petition (7f). Same employer, with a material change to the job duties.

Form ETA-9035, Section B, Item 7, in DOL's words from its LCA record layout. One LCA can tick several boxes.

Wage level it chose

  • Level I 57 · 10%
  • Level II 299 · 52%
  • Level III 142 · 25%
  • Level IV 79 · 14%

Shares of the 577 certified LCAs that named an OES level. The form asks for the level only when the employer set the wage from the OES survey itself; 0 of 577 used another source, such as a DOL wage determination or another survey. Level I is entry, Level IV fully competent.

What it declared on Section H

H-1B-dependent
No
Found a willful violator
No

As answered on its newest LCA, filed June 12, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 528 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 583. Both are the employer's own answers.

What the two answers mean

H-1B-dependent (20 CFR 655.736(a)): 25 or fewer full-time-equivalent employees in the US and more than 7 H-1B workers; 26 to 50 and more than 12; or 51 or more, with H-1B workers equal to at least 15% of them.

Willful violator (655.736(f)): DOL or the Justice Department found a willful failure or a misrepresentation of a material fact in the five years before the LCA was filed.

Either one adds two promises to the employer's LCAs: not to displace US workers, and to recruit US workers before hiring H-1B workers (655.738, 655.739). They don't apply to an LCA used only for exempt workers, paid at least $60,000 a year or holding a related master's degree (655.737). The rule on eCFR

Visas these LCAs support: H-1B 582 · E-3 (Australia) 6 · H-1B1 (Chile) 2 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 4. E-3 and H-1B1 use the same LCA as the H-1B.

Against other sponsors

Where it sits among 70,985 sponsors. The full ranking sorts every column.

Each figure ranked only among sponsors with enough cases for it to mean something. No single score: they measure different things.

  • PERM approval rate

    98.9% of 90 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 25% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    21 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 96% of the 14,008 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

  • H-1B LCAs certified in the last 24 months

    152 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 98% of the 27,902 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    20% of 178 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 66% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

  • Share of H-1B LCAs at wage level III or IV

    52% of 178 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 68% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

  • USCIS H-1B approval rate, last 3 fiscal years

    99.0% of 199 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 55% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

Position in the field 1,343 sponsors with 30+ decided

Approval rate

98.9%ahead of 25%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

452 daysahead of 64%

5d 1152d
Each bar counts sponsors at that value. More
Each bar counts sponsors at that value. Sponsors with fewer than 30 decided cases are left out of the population rather than plotted, because a rate over a handful of cases lands wherever the handful landed. The line marks this one.
DOL PERM disclosure files

Against the sponsors ranked nearest

The 120 sponsors ranked nearest filed between 81 and 111 filings.

Their median wait
471 days
This one
452 days

This one sits 19 days ahead of them.

Why no approval rate

A band is a slice of the volume ranking rather than a population picked for having enough decided cases, so a band rate would be solid at the top of the list and noise at the bottom, under one heading.

Where this sits in the ranking

Ranked 387 of 70,985 by volume: 386 filed at least as many filings, and 70,598 filed no more.

Just above
Qualtrics, LLC 95 filings
Just below
LYFT, INC. 94 filings

Sponsors filing at the same rate

Ranked either side of this one: they file about as many PERM cases.

Sponsors hiring for the same work

The employers filing the most PERM cases for Computer Systems Analysts, the occupation this sponsor files for most.

What they file, and where

A rank says how much. It says nothing about what the work is, which is the part a job offer from this sponsor turns on.

What the jobs are

Computer Systems Analysts

SOC 15-1211.00 · 15 filings, 16% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 49 of 94 cases between them. The occupation on a PERM is the SOC code on the form, which is the job as DOL classifies it rather than the job title on the offer. DOL still accepts two SOC vintages, so one job can appear twice under two codes; the code is printed for exactly that reason.

The industry they declared

Pharmaceutical and Medicine Manufacturing

NAICS 3254, 32541 · 79 filings

  • Pharmaceutical Preparation Manufacturing 32541215
How this is counted

The NAICS code the employer entered on the form, with the Census Bureau's title for it. DOL publishes the code alone, and an employer can file under more than one.

Where the jobs are

  • Illinois 67
  • Texas 18
  • California 5
  • Ohio 3
  • Massachusetts 1
How this is counted

The worksite state on the application, which is where the job is and not where the company is headquartered. Volume by state across everyone is on the state map. These 5 states cover 94 of 94 filings.

Where the work is

  • Abbott Park, IL 34
  • Waukegan, IL 17
  • Irving, TX 15
  • Lake Forest, IL 11
  • Santa Clara, CA 4
  • Austin, TX 3
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 84 of 94 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Hussain Bendersky and Liston LLC 94 filings · 98.9% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 94 of 94 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. Chicago Sun-Times

    55 cases

  2. The Dallas Morning News

    11 cases

  3. The Columbus Dispatch

    3 cases

  4. San Francisco Chronicle

    3 cases

  5. Austin American-Statesmen

    2 cases

  6. Austin American-Statesman

    1 cases
How this is counted

The newspaper or professional journal named for each case's two print ads, one count per paper per case, however the filer spelled it.

Additional steps it used

  1. Employee referral programs

    77 cases

  2. Job search websites

    77 cases

  3. Local or ethnic newspapers

    77 cases
How this is counted

The steps a professional job needs beyond the job order and the ads, by the number of cases that name each.

How long before filing it began

  1. Under 30 days

    0.0%

  2. 30 to 59 days

    0.0%

  3. 60 to 89 days

    47%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    21%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    9.1%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    23%

  7. Over 180 days

    0.0%
How this is counted

Days from the first recruitment step to the filing. 20 C.F.R. § 656.17(e) puts the job order and ads 30 to 180 days before filing.

Where every PERM employer recruits

History

Year by year since 2008

595 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2010 with 63.

  • certified
  • denied
  • withdrawn

Fiscal years, October to September. A year filed under another name is missing, not zero. FY2026 is partial: DOL's newest file runs through June 2026.

Every year as a table
Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn
FY2008 40 2 1
FY2009 21 0 0
FY2010 61 1 1
FY2011 17 2 1
FY2012 35 7 4
FY2013 39 8 2
FY2014 14 2 5
FY2015 28 1 2
FY2016 27 3 0
FY2017 26 2 1
FY2018 23 0 0
FY2019 18 0 1
FY2020 25 0 0
FY2021 40 0 0
FY2022 22 1 1
FY2023 12 0 5
FY2024 17 0 3
FY2025 41 0 0
FY2026 31 1 1

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 207. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22252-19028 2023-08-21 certified SAP Security Technical Lead, IL $128,000
A-23034-97450 2023-08-14 withdrawn Director, Strategic Initiatives, IL $220,000
A-22249-17291 2023-06-30 certified Systems Support Engineer, IL $122,000
A-22174-77396 2023-05-12 certified DevOps Engineer - Application Development Engineer, IL $105,000
A-22200-90609 2023-05-10 certified Associate Architect, IL $115,000
A-22174-77122 2023-03-20 certified Design-to-Cost Engineer, IL $107,500
A-23059-06566 2023-03-07 withdrawn Senior Design/Product Development Engineer, IL $134,500
A-22144-60324 2023-03-01 certified Senior Systems Analyst - EDI, MN $130,000
The other 17
A-22361-79467 2023-01-26 withdrawn Training and Customer Loyalty Manager, TX $110,000
A-22280-35515 2023-01-26 withdrawn Senior Product Manager, Global Strategic Marketing, IL $142,875
A-22089-33113 2023-01-18 certified Data Engineer, IL $75,000
A-22082-29763 2023-01-10 certified Senior Software Engineer, IL $126,000
A-22090-33923 2023-01-09 certified Senior Global Service Professional - Global Service Technical Operations, TX $107,000
A-22223-04494 2022-12-02 withdrawn Senior Quality Assurance Specialist, Non-Product Software Validation, TX $114,250
A-22042-10595 2022-12-01 certified System Engineer, CA $138,300
A-22035-07510 2022-10-06 certified Capital Equipment Strategic Pricing & Contract Senior Analyst, TX $85,000
A-22020-00511 2022-10-04 certified Senior SAP Developer, MN $125,798
A-22003-92900 2022-08-29 certified Senior Software Test Engineer, CA $120,000
A-21335-79996 2022-08-17 certified Software Engineer, TX $111,200
A-21323-75797 2022-08-01 certified Regulatory Affairs Specialist, OH $70,000
A-21279-54881 2022-07-25 certified Associate Architect, IL $120,000
A-22153-65346 2022-07-07 withdrawn Senior Software Engineer, TX $128,500
A-21314-71278 2022-06-03 certified Manager, Global Service Performance Operations, IL $110,000
A-21287-58704 2022-05-19 certified Software Engineer, IL $73,000
A-21274-53071 2022-05-16 certified Senior Software Engineer, TX $120,000

Who they sponsored, FY2016 to FY2023

From DOL's old form; the form in use since mid-2023 doesn't carry them. Top six of each.

Country of citizenship

  • India 124
  • China 23
  • Canada 11
  • Mexico 6
  • Brazil 5
  • Colombia 4

Worker's education

  • Master's 120
  • Bachelor's 75
  • Doctorate 6
  • Other 5
  • None 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 161
  • L-1 36
  • F-1 3
  • TN 3
  • PAROLEE 2
  • H-4 1

Schools

  • UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 6
  • UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON 6
  • INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY 3
  • MADURAI KAMARAJ UNIVERSITY 3
  • SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY 3
  • UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS 3

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 23
  • BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING 20
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 18
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 9
  • INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING 8
  • MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 6

Notes on these numbers

What this rank counts, and what it doesn't

DOL prints the name that went on the form, so one sponsor can appear under several. The 7 entries below start the same way and were not merged, because the difference between them is more than a mistyped letter. Some may be the same sponsor; some are a different one. Rank #387 counts this page's cases only.

54 filings sit on those pages rather than this one. The methodology has the rule that decides which spellings merge.

What these numbers don't say

5 notes
The wage is the job, not the payer
Their filings are led by Computer Systems Analysts, 15 of 94. The median offered wage moves almost entirely with what roles they file. A software developer and a poultry cutter are different numbers wherever they are filed, so this figure is not plotted against the field and no percentile is given for it: that comparison would rank occupation mix and call it pay. Wages by occupation are on the wages page.
Volume doesn’t change the wait
DOL works a single national queue, oldest first, whoever filed the case, so these 94 filings bought no priority: a company with four thousand waits exactly as long as one with three.
The name is a legal entity
DOL prints whatever went on the form, and here that name ranks 387. A group that files through several subsidiaries appears as several rows, and one that files everything through a parent appears once, so a rank is a rank among printed names rather than among companies.
A median over 90 decided cases
The queue is national and first in, first out, so this figure follows when the cases were filed as much as it follows the sponsor.
Two sources, and they do not add up
The filing counts come from DOL's disclosure files, where every row already carries a decision date, so nothing pending is in them. The queue figures come from a live per-case tracker with its own coverage and its own as-of date. Subtracting one from the other gives a number that means nothing. The worksite on most of these is IL. Where the queue stands overall is on the processing times page.

The window these figures cover: DOL's PERM disclosure files for fiscal years 2024 to 2026, through the third quarter of 2026, 373,939 decided cases. Nothing pending is counted here. How each figure is built

Case data: DOL quarterly disclosure files (flag.dol.gov) · data through Jun 30, 2026 · quarterly

Employers and firms: Derived from DOL's disclosure files · data through Jun 30, 2026 · rebuilt with each quarterly load

Per-case statuses: flag.dol.gov/recaptcha/caseStatus (DOL, direct) · data through Oct 21, 2026 · daily

What each source includes

Case data: Decided PERM cases only. A case still waiting isn't in here, so counts and durations describe finished cases.

Employers and firms: Employers, law firms and occupations ranked from decided cases only.

Per-case statuses: Every PERM case DOL indexes, pending included. No wage, law firm or worksite: DOL reveals those only when a case is published.

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