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PERM sponsor, #38 of 70,985 by filings

ByteDance Inc.

ByteDance Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 307 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 20, 2026. ByteDance Inc. has 188 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers · 49% of its filings
Main worksite
San Jose, CA · 56% of its filings
Industry
Software Publishers · NAICS 51321

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Filings

821

#38 of 70,985

Certified

675

0 denied

Approval

100.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$169,541

offered, per year

Median days

443

23 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 1,138 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

188

of 1,138 tracked cases. The other 950 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed January 31, 2025, 20 months ago.

Where those 188 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
18799%

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

RECONSIDERATION APPEALS
11%

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 1,138 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 1,138, never against the lifetime filings above. 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

  1. October 6 DOL certified 22 of its cases
  2. October 5 DOL certified 16 of its cases
  3. September 5 DOL certified 21 of its cases
  4. September 4 DOL certified 26 of its cases
  5. September 2 DOL certified 12 of its cases

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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. ByteDance Inc.

    median of 105 decisions in the last 90 days

    295 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 30,289 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 80,222 cases, and would be decided around March 18, 2027 (between February 26, 2027 and April 27, 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)
821 published
188 pending
$169,541 median, n=820
Prevailing wage requests
680 published
37 pending
$149,365 median, n=667
H-1B labor condition applications
5,081 published
4 pending
$198,000 median, n=5,080

Its median H-1B wage is $198,000 across 5,080 LCAs, 17% higher than its median PERM wage of $169,541 across 820 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 188 pending PERM cases, 1 (0.5%) 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; 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 ByteDance 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: 5,081 LCAs filed by ByteDance Inc., 4,914 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

3,110 positions for new employment, 1,833 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 3,110 · 51%
  • Change of employer 7e 1,833 · 30%
  • Continuing 7b 830 · 14%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 42 · 1%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 273 · 4%

Shares of the 6,086 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 869 · 18%
  • Level II 1,275 · 26%
  • Level III 1,063 · 22%
  • Level IV 1,631 · 34%

Shares of the 4,838 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; 76 of 4,914 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 June 23, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 4,750 of 4,751 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 4,959. 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 4,958 · E-3 (Australia) 80 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 43. 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 675 decided PERM cases

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

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    307 filed in the last 12 months

    At the top of the 13,997 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    1,807 certified in the last 24 months

    At the top of the 27,902 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    14% of 3,193 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 48% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    49% of 1,981 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 65% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    98.6% of 2,399 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 50% 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 2026-06-30).
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

443 daysahead of 71%

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 97 sponsors ranked nearest filed between 373 and 6,875 filings.

Their median wait
461 days
This one
443 days

This one sits 18 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 38 of 70,985 by volume: 37 filed at least as many filings, and 70,947 filed no more.

Just above
Citibank, N.A. 825 filings
Just below
Accenture LLP 789 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 · 399 filings, 49% of everything they file · 100.0% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 613 of 821 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

Software Publishers

NAICS 51321, 513210 · 586 filings

  • Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals 519130173
  • Computer Systems Design and Related Services 5415162
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 575
  • Washington 203
  • New York 35
  • Texas 6
  • District of Columbia 1
  • Virginia 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 821 of 821 filings.

Where the work is

  • San Jose, CA 458
  • Bellevue, WA 203
  • Mountain View, CA 86
  • New York, NY 34
  • Culver City, CA 23
  • San Francisco, CA 8
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 812 of 821 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Farrell LLP 816 filings · 100.0% approved
  2. CHUN FRUTO LAW CORPORATION 5 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 821 of 821 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Mercury News

    428 cases

  2. The Seattle Times

    186 cases

  3. The New York Times

    34 cases

  4. Los Angeles Times

    19 cases

  5. San Francisco Chronicle

    8 cases

  6. Austin American-Statesman

    4 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. Local or ethnic newspapers

    679 cases

  2. Radio or TV ads

    679 cases

  3. The employer's website

    678 cases

  4. Job search websites

    1 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

    1.8%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    25%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    34%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    39%

  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 2019

1,063 PERM decisions from FY2019 to FY2026, busiest in FY2026 with 392.

  • 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
FY2019 2 0 0
FY2020 4 0 0
FY2021 24 0 4
FY2022 85 0 5
FY2023 113 1 4
FY2024 171 0 10
FY2025 157 0 91
FY2026 347 0 45

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 242. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22291-41689 2023-09-21 certified Production System Engineer, Tech Services, Infrastructure SRE, CA $180,000
A-22297-44965 2023-09-21 certified Site Reliability Engineer, Tech Services, Monetization Tech, CA $194,681
A-22286-39302 2023-09-05 certified Software Engineer, Product RD & Infrastructure, Quality, Engineering, CA $225,000
A-22287-40013 2023-09-05 certified Operations Manager, CA $110,100
A-22291-41384 2023-08-28 withdrawn Regional Product Policy Lead, Trust and Safety, Product Policy, Latin America, CA $235,518
A-22116-46518 2023-06-02 certified E-Commerce PMM, NY $64,085
A-22112-44962 2023-06-02 certified Performance and Capacity Engineer, CA $156,000
A-22084-31099 2023-06-02 certified Software Engineer, Machine Learning, WA $167,790
The other 17
A-22215-99447 2023-05-18 certified Program Manager (Supply Chain), VA $145,000
A-22157-66896 2023-05-17 certified Technical Product Specialist, TX $192,600
A-22126-51665 2023-05-12 certified HR Specialist, CA $85,000
A-22200-91199 2023-05-11 certified Research Scientist in Multimodal Machine Learning, CA $235,000
A-22196-89442 2023-05-11 certified Software Engineer, TikTok Brand Ads, CA $185,000
A-22154-65999 2023-04-25 certified Product Operation Manager, CA $210,000
A-22196-89416 2023-04-13 certified HR Specialist, CA $85,000
A-22159-68572 2023-04-03 certified Senior Manager, Label Licensing & Partnerships - LATAM, FL $225,000
A-22236-11414 2023-03-23 withdrawn Tech Lead Engineer – Central Product Platform, CA $240,000
A-22054-15311 2023-03-22 certified Software Engineer, TikTok I, CA $132,000
A-22178-79003 2023-03-21 certified Research Scientist III, CA $204,992
A-22172-75942 2023-03-16 certified Performance and Capacity Engineer, CA $156,000
A-22157-67088 2023-03-13 certified Tech Lead, TikTok Ads Vertical Solutions, CA $297,000
A-22157-66955 2023-03-13 certified Senior Software Engineer, Ads Infrastructure, CA $180,000
A-22157-66801 2023-03-13 certified Backend Software Engineer, CA $150,000
A-22153-65205 2023-03-13 certified Software Engineer, Machine Learning and Algorithm Design, CA $130,894
A-22152-64635 2023-03-13 certified Software Engineer, CRM, CA $175,000

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 208
  • India 20
  • Canada 3
  • Singapore 3
  • Australia 1
  • Brazil 1

Worker's education

  • Master's 200
  • Bachelor's 23
  • Doctorate 18
  • None 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 233
  • L-2 2
  • O-1 2
  • TN 2
  • E-3 1

Schools

  • CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY 29
  • COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 16
  • UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 9
  • UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANACHAMPAIGN 8
  • CORNELL UNIVERSITY 7
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 7

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 69
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 17
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 11
  • ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING 10
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 8
  • COMPUTATIONAL DATA SCIENCE 7

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, 399 of 821. 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 821 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 38. 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 675 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 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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