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PERM sponsor, #392 of 70,985 by filings

AbbVie Inc.

AbbVie Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 44 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 13, 2026. AbbVie Inc. has 27 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Computer Systems Analysts · 25% of its filings
Main worksite
North Chicago, IL · 62% of its filings
Industry
Pharmaceutical and Medicine Manufacturing · NAICS 32541

Waiting on a case with AbbVie Inc.?

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This rate is level with the field

Over 91 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

93

#392 of 70,985

Certified

90

1 denied

Approval

98.9%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$132,825

offered, per year

Median days

448

18 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 144 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

27

of 144 tracked cases. The other 117 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed January 5, 2026, 9 months ago.

Where those 27 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
27100%

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

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 144 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 144, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 19, 2026

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What DOL has done to its cases as a group

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Its newest filings

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

  • G-100-26286-297853 Senior Manager, Statistics (Oncology) filed 2026-10-13 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26268-260779 Engineer, Technology I filed 2026-09-25 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26258-235128 ETL/Data Architect filed 2026-09-15 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26258-235220 Senior Architect, Technology I filed 2026-09-15 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26258-235286 Associate Business Systems Consultant – Data & Analytics filed 2026-09-15 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26246-214077 Project Manager CTIS, Trial Disclosure (Drugs & Devices) filed 2026-09-03 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26237-192427 Study Project Manager (Medical Affairs/Immunology/Oncology) filed 2026-08-25 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26233-186028 Scientist I (Biologics Drug Product Development) filed 2026-08-21 · ANALYST REVIEW

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. AbbVie Inc.

    median of 18 decisions in the last 90 days

    289 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 28,615 decisions in the same 90 days

    302 days

About the same as everyone: DOL works one national line in filing order. 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 81,062 cases, and would be decided around March 16, 2027 (between February 24, 2027 and April 25, 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)
93 published
27 pending
$132,825 median, n=92
Prevailing wage requests
205 published
12 pending
$119,829 median, n=203
H-1B labor condition applications
1,345 published
1 pending
$133,837 median, n=1,345

Its median H-1B wage ($133,837 across 1,345 LCAs) and its median PERM wage ($132,825 across 92 cases) are within 2% of each other.

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; 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 AbbVie Inc., 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: 1,345 LCAs filed by AbbVie Inc., 1,286 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

280 positions for new employment, 344 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 280 · 22%
  • Change of employer 7e 344 · 27%
  • Continuing 7b 188 · 15%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 148 · 12%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 326 · 25%

Shares of the 1,286 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 28 · 2%
  • Level II 492 · 38%
  • Level III 397 · 31%
  • Level IV 368 · 29%

Shares of the 1,285 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; 1 of 1,286 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 18, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 1,246 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 1,320. 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 1,319 · E-3 (Australia) 19 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 7. 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 91 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 26% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    44 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 98% of the 13,946 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    381 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 99% of the 27,903 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    11% of 425 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 41% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    78% of 425 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 91% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    99.2% of 498 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 57% 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 26%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

448 daysahead of 68%

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
470 days
This one
448 days

This one sits 22 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 392 of 70,985 by volume: 391 filed at least as many filings, and 70,593 filed no more.

Just above
The Pennsylvania State University 93 filings
Just below
Cumberland County Hospital System. Inc 93 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 · 23 filings, 25% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 49 of 93 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 32541, 3254 · 77 filings

  • Pharmaceutical Preparation Manufacturing 32541210
  • Chemical Manufacturing 3256
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 76
  • California 12
  • New Jersey 4
  • 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 4 states cover 93 of 93 filings.

Where the work is

  • North Chicago, IL 58
  • Mettawa, IL 10
  • Irvine, CA 8
  • Vernon Hills, IL 6
  • Florham Park, NJ 4
  • South San Francisco, CA 3
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 89 of 93 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Hussain Bendersky and Liston LLC 78 filings · 98.7% approved
  2. Baker & McKenzie LLP 15 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 93 of 93 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. Chicago Sun-Times

    71 cases

  2. The Orange County Register

    5 cases

  3. Daily Record

    2 cases

  4. Newark Star Ledger

    2 cases

  5. The Boston Globe

    1 cases

  6. Los Angeles Times

    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. Local or ethnic newspapers

    85 cases

  2. Campus placement offices

    84 cases

  3. The employer's website

    52 cases

  4. Job search websites

    33 cases

  5. On-campus recruiting

    1 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

    44%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    22%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    19%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    15%

  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 2013

477 PERM decisions from FY2013 to FY2026, busiest in FY2022 with 67.

  • 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
FY2013 1 0 0
FY2014 17 0 2
FY2015 31 0 1
FY2016 41 0 0
FY2017 22 1 0
FY2018 41 1 2
FY2019 44 1 1
FY2020 38 1 0
FY2021 44 0 0
FY2022 65 0 2
FY2023 27 0 1
FY2024 10 0 2
FY2025 43 0 0
FY2026 37 1 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 332. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22290-40743 2023-09-25 certified Senior Statistical Analyst, IL $120,000
A-22305-49937 2023-09-25 certified Salesforce Technical Architect, IL $140,000
A-22293-43218 2023-09-22 certified Principal Research Scientist I - Data, IL $160,000
A-22291-41603 2023-09-21 certified Global SAP Technical Architect, IL $160,000
A-22262-24023 2023-07-31 certified Systems Design Analyst II, CA $140,000
A-22263-24816 2023-07-31 certified Configuration Manager, IL $140,000
A-22251-18512 2023-07-12 certified Senior Scientist I, IL $110,000
A-22220-02043 2023-05-12 certified Senior Scientist II, PBPK Modeler, IL $135,000
The other 17
A-22209-96376 2023-05-10 certified Senior Engineer, Process Safety, IL $114,500
A-22187-84043 2023-04-28 certified Senior Project Manager, IL $130,000
A-22175-77951 2023-04-25 certified Associate Director, Epidemiology, IL $150,000
A-22171-75018 2023-04-25 certified Senior Financial Auditor, IL $95,000
A-22180-80690 2023-04-21 certified Senior Clinical Pharmacologist, IL $115,000
A-22167-73256 2023-04-21 certified Manager, Customer Data Platform, IL $184,000
A-22157-66754 2023-03-22 certified Technology Engineer II, IL $130,000
A-22166-72466 2023-03-22 certified Senior Financial Auditor, IL $95,000
A-22165-71809 2023-03-14 certified Senior Financial Auditor, IL $95,000
A-22164-70742 2023-03-09 certified Analytical Data Scientist, Senior Scientist I, IL $110,000
A-22164-70859 2023-03-09 certified Senior Statistical Analyst, IL $130,000
A-22165-71629 2023-03-09 certified Endpoint Security Engineer, IL $128,000
A-22091-34406 2023-01-31 certified Senior Scientist, Occupational Toxicology, IL $120,000
A-22102-39603 2023-01-20 certified Data Scientist, Clinical Analytics, IL $116,000
A-22061-18373 2022-12-01 certified Statistical Analyst, IL $105,000
A-22054-15228 2022-12-01 certified Associate Business Systems Consultant, IL $115,000
A-22164-70820 2022-11-28 withdrawn Senior Quantitative System Pharmacologist, IL $125,000

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 194
  • China 64
  • Canada 9
  • Brazil 8
  • Egypt 6
  • Colombia 4

Worker's education

  • Master's 166
  • Bachelor's 84
  • Doctorate 75
  • Other 7

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 287
  • L-1 29
  • O-1 5
  • PAROLEE 3
  • E-3 2
  • E-2 1

Schools

  • UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO 12
  • ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 8
  • JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 6
  • OSMANIA UNIVERSITY 5
  • NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE 4
  • PURDUE UNIVERSITY 4

Fields of study

  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 23
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 15
  • STATISTICS 15
  • BIOSTATISTICS 14
  • CHEMICAL ENGINEERING 12
  • CHEMISTRY 12

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 4 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 #392 counts this page's cases only.

44 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, 23 of 93. 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 93 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 392. 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 91 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 19, 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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