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PERM sponsor, #183 of 70,985 by filings

BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.

BlackRock Financial Management, Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 69 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 23, 2026. BlackRock Financial Management, Inc. has 56 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers · 33% of its filings
Main worksite
New York, NY · 49% of its filings
Industry
Portfolio Management · NAICS 523920

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Filings

209

#183 of 70,985

Certified

207

0 denied

Approval

100.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$145,400

offered, per year

Median days

469

3 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 252 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

56

of 252 tracked cases. The other 196 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed November 15, 2024, 23 months ago.

Where those 56 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
5598%

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

RECONSIDERATION APPEALS
12%

The employer has asked the same officer who denied the case to look at it again, within 30 days of the denial. The request can only use documents DOL already had, so new evidence can't be added to fix what the denial was based on.

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 252 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 252, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 24, 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. BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.

    median of 15 decisions in the last 90 days

    300 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 32,341 decisions in the same 90 days

    301 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 79,663 cases, and would be decided around March 21, 2027 (between March 1, 2027 and April 30, 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)
209 published
56 pending
$145,400 median, n=206
Prevailing wage requests
378 published
41 pending
$105,227 median, n=369
H-1B labor condition applications
3,633 published
6 pending
$107,474 median, n=3,627

Its median H-1B wage is $107,474 across 3,627 LCAs, 26.1% lower than its median PERM wage of $145,400 across 206 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.

Of its 56 pending PERM cases, 1 (1.8%) sit outside DOL's normal queue: 1 under appeal. 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, 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 BlackRock Financial Management, 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: 3,633 LCAs filed by BlackRock Financial Management, Inc., 3,528 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

3,095 positions for new employment, 388 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 3,095 · 36%
  • Change of employer 7e 388 · 4%
  • Continuing 7b 4,681 · 54%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 64 · 1%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 486 · 6%

Shares of the 8,711 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 497 · 15%
  • Level II 1,586 · 48%
  • Level III 962 · 29%
  • Level IV 290 · 9%

Shares of the 3,335 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; 193 of 3,528 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 3,373 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 3,600. 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 3,599 · E-3 (Australia) 24 · H-1B1 (Chile) 1 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 9. 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 207 decided PERM cases

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

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    69 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 99% of the 14,055 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    774 certified in the last 24 months

    At the top of the 27,849 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    3.5% of 2,181 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 14% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    44% of 763 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 60% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    98.7% of 830 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

100.0%ahead of 34%, level with 891 more

0% 100%

Median days to decision

469 daysahead of 45%

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 161 and 293 filings.

Their median wait
462 days
This one
469 days

This one sits 7 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 183 of 70,985 by volume: 182 filed at least as many filings, and 70,802 filed no more.

Just above
Omnipotent Brands ESO, LLC 210 filings
Just below
RESER'S FINE FOODS, INC. 209 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 · 68 filings, 33% of everything they file · 100.0% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 163 of 209 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

Portfolio Management

NAICS 523920, 52392 · 134 filings

  • Portfolio Management and Investment Advice 52394071
  • Trusts, Estates, and Agency Accounts 525920, 525924
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

  • New York 107
  • Georgia 38
  • California 27
  • Delaware 22
  • New Jersey 8
  • Washington 4
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 206 of 209 filings.

Where the work is

  • New York, NY 103
  • Atlanta, GA 38
  • San Francisco, CA 25
  • Wilmington, DE 22
  • Princeton, NJ 8
  • Seattle, WA 4
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 200 of 209 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. 145 filings · 100.0% approved
  2. Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP 49 filings · 100.0% approved
  3. Ogletree Deakins 15 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 209 of 209 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The New York Times

    84 cases

  2. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

    29 cases

  3. San Francisco Chronicle

    17 cases

  4. The Philadelphia Inquirer

    13 cases

  5. The Times of Trenton

    5 cases

  6. Wilmington News Journal

    3 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. The employer's website

    162 cases

  2. Local or ethnic newspapers

    160 cases

  3. Job search websites

    155 cases

  4. Radio or TV ads

    8 cases

  5. Trade or professional organizations

    3 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

    5.6%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    20%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    8.0%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    66%

  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

731 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2021 with 115.

  • 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 1 0 0
FY2009 4 0 0
FY2010 17 0 0
FY2011 16 0 0
FY2012 15 1 0
FY2013 12 0 0
FY2014 15 0 1
FY2015 18 1 0
FY2016 16 0 0
FY2017 19 0 0
FY2018 26 0 0
FY2019 60 0 0
FY2020 46 0 0
FY2021 115 0 0
FY2022 74 0 1
FY2023 64 0 0
FY2024 47 0 0
FY2025 86 0 2
FY2026 74 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 421. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22279-34739 2023-09-08 certified Vice President, Financial Modelling Content Area, NY $177,500
A-22147-62084 2023-08-29 certified Vice President, Head of Analytics for Securities Lending, Global Lending & Liqui, NY $222,500
A-22217-00781 2023-08-22 certified Vice President, Financial Planning & Analysis, NJ $162,000
A-22258-21810 2023-08-18 certified Associate, Application Engineer, GA $130,000
A-22244-15307 2023-08-17 certified Associate, Core Portfolio Management, NY $147,500
A-22202-92089 2023-06-29 certified Vice President, Quant Research, Multi-Asset Strategies and Solutions, NY $185,000
A-22237-11589 2023-06-21 certified Associate, Technology Project Manager, NY $140,000
A-22207-94556 2023-06-13 certified Associate, Global Fixed Income Responsible Investing, NY $165,000
The other 17
A-22164-70457 2023-05-18 certified Associate, Software Engineer, Applications, NY $144,500
A-22192-85877 2023-05-16 certified Associate, Software Engineer, Applications, NY $129,600
A-22217-00748 2023-05-15 certified Associate, Application Engineer, NY $150,000
A-22145-60609 2023-05-11 certified Vice President, Software Engineering, GA $185,000
A-22146-62016 2023-05-11 certified Associate, Application Engineering, CA $167,710
A-22101-38695 2023-05-03 certified Vice President, Software Engineering, DE $159,300
A-22113-45134 2023-05-03 certified Director, NY $237,016
A-22188-84378 2023-04-28 certified Associate, Data & AI - Data Ops Engineering, NY $170,000
A-22109-42558 2023-04-28 certified Associate, Data Operations, NY $97,375
A-22125-50826 2023-04-27 certified Associate, Software Engineer, Applications, NY $135,000
A-22125-50749 2023-04-27 certified Vice President, Portfolio Management Investment Systems, Aladdin Product Group, NY $186,300
A-22192-85842 2023-04-25 certified Vice President, Privileged System Administration, DE $152,500
A-22158-67170 2023-04-25 certified Vice President, APG Product Engineering, GA $162,500
A-22157-66440 2023-04-25 certified Vice President, GA $155,000
A-22168-74002 2023-04-24 certified Associate, Project Management, NY $129,600
A-22166-72033 2023-04-24 certified Associate, Product Strategist, NY $165,000
A-22153-64679 2023-04-14 certified Associate, Software Engineer, Applications, CA $150,000

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 227
  • China 88
  • Canada 18
  • United Kingdom 16
  • South Korea 12
  • Australia 4

Worker's education

  • Master's 222
  • Bachelor's 184
  • Doctorate 9
  • Other 5
  • High School 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 379
  • L-1 37
  • NOT IN USA 2
  • TN 2

Schools

  • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 22
  • COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 21
  • CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY 11
  • DREXEL UNIVERSITY 9
  • UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA 9
  • CORNELL UNIVERSITY 8

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 55
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 48
  • FINANCE 24
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 21
  • FINANCIAL ENGINEERING 21
  • ECONOMICS 19

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 7 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 #183 counts this page's cases only.

62 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 Software Developers, 68 of 209. 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 209 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 183. 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 207 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 NY. 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 24, 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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