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PERM sponsor, #254 of 70,985 by filings

Airbnb, Inc.

Airbnb, Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 59 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 16, 2026. Airbnb, Inc. has 52 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers · 38% of its filings
Main worksite
San Francisco, CA · 86% of its filings
Industry
All Other Travel Arrangement and Reservation Services · NAICS 561599

Waiting on a case with Airbnb, Inc.?

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

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This rate is level with the field

Over 145 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 3.8% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

149

#254 of 70,985

Certified

144

1 denied

Approval

99.3%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$190,000

offered, per year

Median days

403

63 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 168 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

52

of 168 tracked cases. The other 116 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed December 2, 2025, 10 months ago.

Where those 52 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
5198%

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

RFI ISSUED
12%

DOL has asked the employer for more documentation. The deadline is the one printed on the RFI letter, because DOL doesn't publish a standard response window for these.

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 168 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 168, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 19, 2026

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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. Airbnb, Inc.

    median of 6 decisions in the last 90 days

    301 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)
149 published
52 pending
$190,000 median, n=149
Prevailing wage requests
305 published
30 pending
$174,637 median, n=298
H-1B labor condition applications
1,577 published
1 pending
$191,000 median, n=1,575

Its median H-1B wage ($191,000 across 1,575 LCAs) and its median PERM wage ($190,000 across 149 cases) are within 2% of each other.

Of its 52 pending PERM cases, 1 (1.9%) sit outside DOL's normal queue: 1 at RFI. 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; 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 Airbnb, 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: 1,577 LCAs filed by Airbnb, Inc., 1,546 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

199 positions for new employment, 519 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 199 · 13%
  • Change of employer 7e 519 · 34%
  • Continuing 7b 634 · 41%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 1 · 1%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 193 · 12%

Shares of the 1,546 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 55 · 4%
  • Level II 317 · 21%
  • Level III 814 · 53%
  • Level IV 344 · 22%

Shares of the 1,530 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; 16 of 1,546 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 23, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 1,409 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 1,530. 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 1,529 · E-3 (Australia) 33 · H-1B1 (Chile) 4 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 11. 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

    99.3% of 145 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 28% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    59 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 99% of the 13,946 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    388 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

    42% of 441 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 92% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    56% of 441 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 72% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    98.7% of 444 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 51% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

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

Approval rate

99.3%ahead of 28%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

403 daysahead of 88%

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 118 and 196 filings.

Their median wait
469 days
This one
403 days

This one sits 66 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 254 of 70,985 by volume: 253 filed at least as many filings, and 70,731 filed no more.

Just above
OPPORTUNITY OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN, INC. 151 filings
Just below
Delight LI Management LLC 148 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 Software Developers, 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

Software Developers

SOC 15-1252.00 · 56 filings, 38% of everything they file · 100.0% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 89 of 149 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

All Other Travel Arrangement and Reservation Services

NAICS 561599 · 127 filings

  • Other Travel Arrangement and Reservation Services 5615922
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

  • California 128
  • Washington 19
  • New York 2
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 3 states cover 149 of 149 filings.

Where the work is

  • San Francisco, CA 128
  • Seattle, WA 19
  • New York, NY 2
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 3 cities cover 149 of 149 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Higgs, Fletcher, & Mack LLP 149 filings · 99.3% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 149 of 149 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. San Francisco Chronicle

    89 cases

  2. The New York 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. Employee referral programs

    90 cases

  2. Job search websites

    90 cases

  3. Local or ethnic newspapers

    90 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

    83%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    8.9%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    4.4%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    3.3%

  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 2012

1,025 PERM decisions from FY2012 to FY2026, busiest in FY2020 with 180.

  • 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
FY2012 2 0 0
FY2013 1 0 0
FY2014 13 0 0
FY2015 18 1 0
FY2016 67 0 1
FY2017 73 1 1
FY2018 116 0 6
FY2019 150 1 0
FY2020 177 1 2
FY2021 98 0 0
FY2022 74 3 2
FY2023 63 3 2
FY2024 84 1 0
FY2025 45 0 3
FY2026 15 0 1

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 841. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22032-05966 2023-09-28 certified Senior Data Engineer, WA $200,000
A-22011-96425 2023-09-28 certified Software Engineer, CA $172,600
A-22201-91520 2023-09-21 certified Senior Manager, Global IT Support, WA $216,300
A-22217-01182 2023-09-14 certified Operations Engineer, CA $136,053
A-22228-06936 2023-09-13 certified Senior Software Engineer, CA $220,000
A-22202-92613 2023-09-11 certified Senior Software Engineer, Payments, WA $211,500
A-22229-07477 2023-09-08 certified Senior Data Engineer, CA $210,000
A-22013-97844 2023-09-08 certified Software Engineer, CA $154,900
The other 17
A-22217-01038 2023-08-25 certified Product Manager, CA $248,768
A-22201-91677 2023-08-22 certified Senior Software Engineer, WA $220,000
A-22210-97154 2023-08-01 certified Software Engineer, WA $175,000
A-22181-82078 2023-07-26 certified Senior Machine Learning Engineer, WA $210,000
A-22238-12840 2023-07-21 certified Senior Data Scientist, CA $200,000
A-22217-01144 2023-07-18 certified Software Engineer, CA $215,000
A-22182-82517 2023-07-07 certified Staff Software Engineer, WA $250,000
A-22216-00607 2023-06-30 certified Staff Software iOS Engineer, CA $230,000
A-22181-81715 2023-06-12 certified Senior Software Engineer, WA $215,000
A-22153-65037 2023-06-12 certified Android Engineer, CA $180,000
A-21287-58729 2023-06-07 certified Software Engineer, CA $130,000
A-21274-53157 2023-06-07 certified Software Engineer, CA $143,600
A-21259-45555 2023-06-06 certified Software Engineer, CA $130,000
A-22060-17615 2023-05-17 certified Senior Software Engineer, CA $220,000
A-22181-81794 2023-05-12 certified Big Data & Machine Learning Manager, WA $232,039
A-22153-64980 2023-05-12 certified Senior Software Engineer, CA $220,000
A-22061-18180 2023-05-12 certified Software Engineer, WA $180,000

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

  • China 502
  • India 162
  • Canada 44
  • France 15
  • Taiwan 11
  • South Korea 8

Worker's education

  • Master's 566
  • Bachelor's 214
  • Doctorate 41
  • None 17
  • Other 3

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 758
  • F-1 32
  • L-1 25
  • O-1 9
  • TN 9
  • J-1 2

Schools

  • CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY 77
  • COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 35
  • UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 33
  • STANFORD UNIVERSITY 22
  • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 20
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY 17

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 241
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 69
  • ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING 40
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 27
  • SOFTWARE ENGINEERING 27
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 22

Notes on these numbers

What these numbers don't say

5 notes
The wage is the job, not the payer
Their filings are led by Software Developers, 56 of 149. 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 149 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 254. 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 145 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 CA. 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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