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PERM sponsor, #1,217 of 70,985 by filings

ALTAIR ENGINEERING, INC.

Main job
Sales Engineers · 18% of its filings
Main worksite
Troy, MI · 65% of its filings
Industry
Engineering Services · NAICS 541330

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This rate is level with the field

Over 34 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 10.2% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

34

#1,217 of 70,985

Certified

34

0 denied

Approval

100.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$104,000

offered, per year

Median days

425

41 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 27 cases in the live tracker

Nothing for this sponsor is waiting on a decision. All 27 of their cases in the live tracker are closed.

All 27 of this sponsor's cases in DOL's live status are decided: nothing of theirs is in the queue. Live case tracker, as of October 21, 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.

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

None 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)
34 published
0 pending
$104,000 median, n=34
Prevailing wage requests
24 published
0 pending
$89,419 median, n=24
H-1B labor condition applications
324 published
0 pending
$95,160 median, n=324

Its median H-1B wage is $95,160 across 324 LCAs, 8.5% lower than its median PERM wage of $104,000 across 34 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.

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 ALTAIR ENGINEERING, INC., newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.

Wage requests

  • P-100-25305-356280 Senior Application Engineer - Sim Lab $93,642 per year 2025-11-01 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-25261-317747 Director, Enterprise Computing $125,715 per year 2025-09-18 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-25118-910262 Sr. Application Engineer $93,642 per year 2025-04-28 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-25055-718240 Senior Solution Architect – Data Analytics & AI $103,813 per year 2025-02-24 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-25011-612493 Technical Specialist $137,883 per year 2025-01-11 · DETERMINATION ISSUED

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: 324 LCAs filed by ALTAIR ENGINEERING, INC., 283 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

60 positions for new employment, 33 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 60 · 21%
  • Change of employer 7e 33 · 12%
  • Continuing 7b 130 · 46%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 17 · 6%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 43 · 15%

Shares of the 283 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 96 · 34%
  • Level II 114 · 41%
  • Level III 60 · 21%
  • Level IV 10 · 4%

Shares of the 280 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; 3 of 283 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
Yes
Found a willful violator
No

As answered on its newest LCA, filed November 24, 2025. Declared H-1B-dependent on 282 of 301 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 324. 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

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

    100.0% of 34 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 67% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

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

    38 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 90% of the 27,902 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    0.0% of 54 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 4% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    33% of 54 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 51% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    100.0% of 87 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 80% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

Also on its record

  • Its newest LCA that answered declared it H-1B dependent (decided 2025-12-02).
Position in the field 1,343 sponsors with 30+ decided

Approval rate

100.0%ahead of 34%, level with 891 more

0% 100%

Median days to decision

425 daysahead of 79%

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 33 and 36 filings.

Their median wait
465 days
This one
425 days

This one sits 40 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 1,217 of 70,985 by volume: 1,216 filed at least as many filings, and 69,768 filed no more.

Just above
VEN SOLUTIONS LLC 34 filings
Just below
Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. 34 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 Sales Engineers, 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

Sales Engineers

SOC 41-9031.00 · 6 filings, 18% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 23 of 34 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

Engineering Services

NAICS 541330, 54133 · 30 filings

  • Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services 54134
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

  • Michigan 22
  • California 9
  • Texas 2
  • Arizona 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 34 of 34 filings.

Where the work is

  • Troy, MI 22
  • Irvine, CA 6
  • Sunnyvale, CA 3
  • Austin, TX 1
  • Houston, TX 1
  • Phoenix, AZ 1
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 34 of 34 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Law Office of Leila Freijy PLLC 34 filings · 100.0% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 34 of 34 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. Detroit Free Press

    14 cases

  2. The Orange County Register

    3 cases

  3. San Francisco Chronicle

    3 cases

  4. The Arizona Republic

    1 cases

  5. 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

    22 cases

  2. The employer's website

    22 cases

  3. Job search websites

    22 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

    77%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    14%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    4.5%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    4.5%

  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

207 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2017 with 24.

  • 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 5 0 0
FY2009 7 1 0
FY2010 4 1 0
FY2011 6 1 1
FY2012 5 2 0
FY2013 8 0 0
FY2014 6 0 1
FY2015 7 0 0
FY2016 19 1 0
FY2017 24 0 0
FY2018 11 0 0
FY2019 8 0 0
FY2020 11 0 0
FY2021 14 0 0
FY2022 16 0 0
FY2023 14 0 0
FY2024 15 0 0
FY2025 15 0 0
FY2026 4 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 118. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22315-56214 2023-09-26 certified Technical Director, MI $130,800
A-22271-29571 2023-08-25 certified Technical Account Manager, CA $120,000
A-22243-15102 2023-06-26 certified Program Manager, MI $97,261
A-22228-06552 2023-05-12 certified Senior Technical Specialist, CA $100,600
A-22152-64638 2023-03-22 certified Technical Specialist, MI $80,163
A-22122-48830 2023-02-06 certified Digital Product Designer, CA $91,943
A-22117-46632 2023-02-06 certified Application Engineer, TX $85,946
A-22109-42897 2023-01-17 certified Engineering Data Scientist, MI $90,000
The other 17
A-22102-39641 2023-01-12 certified Application Engineer, MI $84,032
A-22098-37926 2023-01-09 certified Software Developer, MI $90,480
A-22045-11003 2022-11-17 certified Program Manager – Plotting and Reporting, MI $127,837
A-22043-10830 2022-11-02 certified Application Engineer, MA $89,502
A-22035-07740 2022-10-14 certified CAE Validation Engineer, MI $87,838
A-22043-10827 2022-10-12 certified Project Manager, SWAT, MI $112,507
A-22010-96093 2022-08-30 certified Senior Software Engineer, MI $87,600
A-22010-96042 2022-08-30 certified Software Developer (Fullstack), MI $86,149
A-22010-96010 2022-08-30 certified Senior GUI Developer/Software Engineer, TX $90,000
A-22005-94266 2022-08-29 certified Senior Application Engineer, MI $83,700
A-21351-87955 2022-08-15 certified Data Scientist/Product Manager, MI $94,950
A-21347-85422 2022-07-25 certified Electronics Engineer, CA $123,600
A-21347-85732 2022-07-25 certified Software Development Manager, MI $121,056
A-21308-68245 2022-06-21 certified Account Manager - Enterprise Accounts, MI $119,933
A-21302-65711 2022-05-26 certified Lead Software Engineer, MI $111,093
A-21302-65685 2022-05-09 certified Senior Application Engineer, MI $91,000
A-21273-52291 2022-04-04 certified Technical Manager - Electromagnetics, AZ $116,875

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 77
  • China 17
  • Brazil 3
  • Libya 2
  • Mexico 2
  • South Africa 2

Worker's education

  • Master's 79
  • Bachelor's 26
  • Doctorate 12
  • High School 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 77
  • L-1 32
  • F-1 4
  • E-3 1
  • L-2 1
  • NOT IN USA 1

Schools

  • CLEMSON UNIVERSITY 5
  • VISVESWARAIAH TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 5
  • UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI 4
  • UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 4
  • WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY 4
  • BEIHANG UNIVERSITY 3

Fields of study

  • MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 46
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 14
  • AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING 5
  • AEROSPACE ENGINEERING 4
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING 3
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 3

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 2 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 #1,217 counts this page's cases only.

34 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 Sales Engineers, 6 of 34. 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 34 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 1,217. 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 34 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 MI. 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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