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PERM sponsor, #166 of 70,985 by filings

Amgen Inc.

Amgen Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 9 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on September 15, 2026. Amgen Inc. has 5 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers · 18% of its filings
Main worksite
Thousand Oaks, CA · 64% of its filings
Industry
Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences · NAICS 54171

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Filings

226

#166 of 70,985

Certified

217

0 denied

Approval

100.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$116,160

offered, per year

Median days

473

7 slower 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 201 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

5

of 201 tracked cases. The other 196 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed January 26, 2026, 8 months ago.

Where those 5 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
5100%

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 201 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 201, 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.

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. Amgen Inc.

    median of 7 decisions in the last 90 days

    303 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 29,263 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 80,773 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)
226 published
5 pending
$116,160 median, n=226
Prevailing wage requests
427 published
29 pending
$113,880 median, n=400
H-1B labor condition applications
3,174 published
6 pending
$124,000 median, n=3,173

Its median H-1B wage is $124,000 across 3,173 LCAs, 6.7% higher than its median PERM wage of $116,160 across 226 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, 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 Amgen 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: 3,174 LCAs filed by Amgen Inc., 3,090 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

1,375 positions for new employment, 439 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 1,375 · 44%
  • Change of employer 7e 439 · 14%
  • Continuing 7b 555 · 18%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 409 · 13%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 318 · 10%

Shares of the 3,090 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 474 · 16%
  • Level II 1,019 · 34%
  • Level III 898 · 30%
  • Level IV 649 · 21%

Shares of the 3,040 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; 50 of 3,090 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 22, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 3,023 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 3,145. 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 3,143 · E-3 (Australia) 26 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 5. 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

    100.0% of 217 decided PERM cases

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

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    9 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 89% of the 13,965 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    724 certified in the last 24 months

    At the top of the 27,903 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    9.7% of 837 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 36% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    48% of 813 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 64% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    99.5% of 822 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 59% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

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

473 daysahead of 38%

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 174 and 340 filings.

Their median wait
461 days
This one
473 days

This one sits 12 days behind 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 166 of 70,985 by volume: 165 filed at least as many filings, and 70,819 filed no more.

Just above
Home Depot Management Company LLC 226 filings
Just below
United Methodist Homes & Services 226 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 · 41 filings, 18% of everything they file · 100.0% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 108 of 226 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

Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences

NAICS 54171 · 226 filings

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 151
  • Florida 47
  • Rhode Island 14
  • Massachusetts 11
  • Ohio 2
  • North Carolina 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 6 states cover 226 of 226 filings.

Where the work is

  • Thousand Oaks, CA 144
  • Tampa, FL 47
  • West Greenwich, RI 14
  • Cambridge, MA 11
  • South San Francisco, CA 6
  • New Albany, OH 2
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 224 of 226 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Berry Appleman & Leiden LLP 226 filings · 100.0% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 226 of 226 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. Los Angeles Times

    102 cases

  2. Tampa Bay Times

    34 cases

  3. Providence Journal

    11 cases

  4. The Boston Globe

    9 cases

  5. San Francisco Chronicle

    4 cases

  6. The Columbus Dispatch

    2 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. Job search websites

    163 cases

  2. Local or ethnic newspapers

    163 cases

  3. Trade or professional organizations

    163 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

    3.7%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    5.5%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    10%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    80%

  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

1,060 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2022 with 134.

  • 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 25 2 0
FY2009 18 0 2
FY2010 103 0 0
FY2011 52 0 0
FY2012 19 0 0
FY2013 13 0 0
FY2014 28 0 0
FY2015 32 1 4
FY2016 52 0 1
FY2017 47 0 2
FY2018 71 0 0
FY2019 33 0 0
FY2020 41 0 1
FY2021 82 0 6
FY2022 126 0 8
FY2023 60 1 4
FY2024 62 0 6
FY2025 54 0 3
FY2026 101 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 535. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22238-12808 2023-09-25 certified Sr Data Engineer, CA $127,851
A-22031-05364 2023-09-12 certified Sr Associate IS Engineer, FL $82,636
A-22230-08172 2023-09-06 certified Biostatistics Manager, CA $70,117
A-22230-08129 2023-09-06 certified Biostatistics Manager, CA $70,117
A-22235-10653 2023-09-05 certified Senior Associate IS Engineer, FL $89,124
A-22195-88749 2023-09-05 certified Project Manager, CA $127,296
A-22207-95160 2023-09-01 certified Senior Associate Quality Assurance, RI $87,045
A-23110-30570 2023-08-18 withdrawn Process Development Associate Scientist, CA $86,149
The other 17
A-22202-92785 2023-08-17 certified Senior Automation Engineer, CA $143,049
A-22195-88882 2023-08-17 certified Sr Data Engineer, FL $114,368
A-22202-92773 2023-08-15 certified Data Engineer, FL $87,979
A-22140-58442 2023-08-03 certified Sr Associate IS Prog Analyst, FL $114,079
A-22207-95059 2023-07-31 certified Senior Data Scientist, CA $179,269
A-22189-85536 2023-07-27 certified Sr. Associate, Strategic Planning & Ops, CA $95,106
A-22195-88820 2023-07-12 certified Sr Associate IS Bus Sys Analyst, FL $84,689
A-21337-81328 2023-06-30 certified Finance Manager, CA $113,456
A-22091-34452 2023-06-21 certified Process Development Associate, CA $68,478
A-22207-95197 2023-06-01 withdrawn Project Manager, CA $134,436
A-22158-67340 2023-05-24 certified Data Scientist, MA $137,607
A-22104-40692 2023-05-24 certified Data Engineer, FL $95,729
A-22132-54586 2023-05-24 certified Pharmacovigilance Operations Senior Manager, CA $146,076
A-22119-48046 2023-05-22 certified Senior Associate Information Systems Engineer, FL $90,204
A-22158-67396 2023-05-16 certified Supply Chain Manager, CA $131,250
A-22146-61961 2023-05-11 certified Data Scientist, CA $126,133
A-22122-48988 2023-05-11 certified Senior Manager Information Systems, CA $187,824

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 310
  • China 75
  • Canada 27
  • United Kingdom 16
  • Brazil 10
  • Turkey 9

Worker's education

  • Master's 333
  • Doctorate 94
  • Bachelor's 92
  • Other 15
  • Associate's 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 425
  • F-1 43
  • L-1 39
  • TN 9
  • NOT IN USA 5
  • O-1 5

Schools

  • UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 45
  • UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA 19
  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY 17
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY 12
  • KECK GRADUATE INSTITUTE 8
  • KECK GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF APPLIED LIFE SCIENCES 8

Fields of study

  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 46
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 28
  • CHEMISTRY 25
  • CHEMICAL ENGINEERING 18
  • BIOSTATISTICS 17
  • BIOTECHNOLOGY 16

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. 1 other spelling of this name was folded into this page and its cases are counted here. Nothing else in the file starts the same way.

What these numbers don't say

5 notes
The wage is the job, not the payer
Their filings are led by Software Developers, 41 of 226. 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 226 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 166. 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 217 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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