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PERM sponsor, #63 of 70,985 by filings

Applied Materials, Inc.

Applied Materials, Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 154 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 16, 2026. Applied Materials, Inc. has 124 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Industrial Engineers · 11% of its filings
Main worksite
Santa Clara, CA · 53% of its filings
Industry
Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing · NAICS 33441

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Filings

533

#63 of 70,985

Certified

519

1 denied

Approval

99.8%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$131,305

offered, per year

Median days

455

11 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 601 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

124

of 601 tracked cases. The other 477 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed December 1, 2025, 10 months ago.

Where those 124 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
124100%

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 601 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 601, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 18, 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. Applied Materials, Inc.

    median of 29 decisions in the last 90 days

    303 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 80,983 cases, and would be decided around March 15, 2027 (between February 23, 2027 and April 24, 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)
533 published
124 pending
$131,305 median, n=531
Prevailing wage requests
1,321 published
88 pending
$131,328 median, n=1,256
H-1B labor condition applications
2,991 published
19 pending
$138,226 median, n=2,988

Its median H-1B wage is $138,226 across 2,988 LCAs, 5.3% higher than its median PERM wage of $131,305 across 531 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 Applied Materials, 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: 2,991 LCAs filed by Applied Materials, Inc., 2,955 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

4,796 positions for new employment, 4,054 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 4,796 · 34%
  • Change of employer 7e 4,054 · 29%
  • Continuing 7b 4,197 · 30%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 24 · 1%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 7 · 1%
  • Amended petition 7f 902 · 6%

Shares of the 13,978 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 88 · 4%
  • Level II 495 · 23%
  • Level III 907 · 41%
  • Level IV 700 · 32%

Shares of the 2,190 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; 765 of 2,955 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 2,715 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 2,980. 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 2,980 · E-3 (Australia) 5 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 6. 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

    99.8% of 520 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 33% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    154 filed in the last 12 months

    At the top of the 13,942 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    891 certified in the last 24 months

    At the top of the 27,916 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    21% of 3,176 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 68% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    74% of 688 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 88% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    99.0% of 1,358 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

99.8%ahead of 33%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

455 daysahead of 62%

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 293 and 2,849 filings.

Their median wait
462 days
This one
455 days

This one sits 7 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 63 of 70,985 by volume: 62 filed at least as many filings, and 70,922 filed no more.

Just above
RIVIAN AUTOMOTIVE, LLC 538 filings
Just below
NATURE'S WAY FARMS, LLC 530 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 Industrial 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

Industrial Engineers

SOC 17-2112.00 · 57 filings, 11% of everything they file · 100.0% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 214 of 533 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

Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing

NAICS 33441, 3344 · 533 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 336
  • Texas 118
  • Arizona 28
  • Oregon 24
  • Massachusetts 14
  • Virginia 5
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 525 of 533 filings.

Where the work is

  • Santa Clara, CA 285
  • Austin, TX 115
  • Sunnyvale, CA 49
  • Hillsboro, OR 22
  • Gloucester, MA 14
  • Phoenix, AZ 14
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 499 of 533 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Tafapolsky & Smith LLP 530 filings · 99.8% approved
  2. Tafapolsky Smith Mehlman LLP 1 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 531 of 533 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Mercury News

    224 cases

  2. Austin American-Statesman

    88 cases

  3. The Arizona Republic

    24 cases

  4. The Oregonian

    21 cases

  5. Boston Sunday Globe

    9 cases

  6. The Mercury News Group

    9 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

    400 cases

  2. Job search websites

    400 cases

  3. Local or ethnic newspapers

    400 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

    0.5%

  3. 60 to 89 days

    40%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    35%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    13%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    12%

  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

1,593 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2025 with 244.

  • 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 35 0 0
FY2009 25 3 2
FY2010 29 2 1
FY2011 22 4 0
FY2012 63 3 1
FY2013 26 3 2
FY2014 42 3 1
FY2015 54 3 6
FY2016 77 1 0
FY2017 66 2 1
FY2018 104 2 1
FY2019 74 0 3
FY2020 81 1 1
FY2021 130 0 0
FY2022 89 0 1
FY2023 92 0 4
FY2024 148 0 4
FY2025 235 1 8
FY2026 136 0 1

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 730. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22314-55819 2023-09-28 certified Process Engineer, CA $134,514
A-22294-43849 2023-09-28 certified Tech Proj/Prog Mgmt Analyst, TX $175,056
A-22279-35148 2023-09-27 certified Financial Analyst, CA $114,507
A-22279-34694 2023-09-25 certified Customer Quality Engineer, TX $124,560
A-22293-43393 2023-09-25 certified Software Engineer (Technical Support), TX $112,362
A-22243-15050 2023-09-25 certified Manager, Technical Program Management, CA $165,005
A-22300-47399 2023-09-21 certified Process Engineer, CA $126,915
A-22279-34891 2023-09-11 certified Supplier Engineer (Manufacturing), CA $135,000
The other 17
A-22265-26647 2023-08-30 certified Process Engineer, CA $109,379
A-22230-08532 2023-08-29 certified Mechanical Engineer, CA $144,913
A-22273-31792 2023-08-28 certified Process Support Engineer, ID $93,787
A-22251-18636 2023-08-28 certified IT Application Solution Management Engineer, TX $130,000
A-22272-30791 2023-08-25 certified Process Engineer, CA $134,680
A-22255-20071 2023-08-24 certified Application Engineer, CA $145,184
A-22252-19334 2023-08-24 certified Non-Technical Project/Program Management Engineer, CA $121,776
A-22258-22185 2023-08-18 certified Mechanical Engineer, CA $113,465
A-22258-22356 2023-08-17 certified Process Engineer, CA $164,780
A-22217-01279 2023-08-08 certified Global Product Support (GPS) Engineer, CA $129,781
A-22259-23236 2023-08-04 certified Process Engineer, CA $140,400
A-22145-60918 2023-08-02 certified Design Engineer, CA $204,500
A-22243-15214 2023-08-02 certified Software Engineer, CA $158,640
A-22216-00357 2023-08-02 certified Financial Analyst, TX $100,706
A-22259-23146 2023-08-01 certified Business Management Operations Analyst, CA $136,365
A-22259-23220 2023-07-31 certified Technical Program Manager, CA $175,000
A-22216-00562 2023-07-17 certified Account Technologist, CA $145,618

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 356
  • China 121
  • South Korea 68
  • Taiwan 62
  • Israel 30
  • Japan 20

Worker's education

  • Master's 359
  • Bachelor's 222
  • Doctorate 118
  • Other 14
  • Associate's 8
  • None 7

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 522
  • L-1 196
  • O-1 3
  • TN 3
  • L-2 2
  • NOT IN USA 2

Schools

  • SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY 27
  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY 18
  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY 15
  • BANGALORE UNIVERSITY 10
  • ANNA UNIVERSITY 9
  • STANFORD UNIVERSITY 9

Fields of study

  • MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 94
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 48
  • ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 44
  • MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING 44
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 35
  • CHEMICAL ENGINEERING 30

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 Industrial Engineers, 57 of 533. 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 533 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 63. 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 520 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 18, 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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