Updated
PERM sponsor, #87 of 70,985 by filings
Charles Schwab & Company, Inc.
Charles Schwab & Company, Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 109 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 8, 2026. Charles Schwab & Company, Inc. has 81 PERM cases waiting with DOL.
- Main job
- Software Developers · 66% of its filings
- Main worksite
- Westlake, TX · 48% of its filings
- Industry
- Investment Banking and Securities Intermediation · NAICS 52315
Waiting on a case with Charles Schwab & Company, Inc.?
- When it'll likely be decided
- An email when DOL moves it
Filings
412
#87 of 70,985
Certified
399
2 denied
Approval
99.5%
field 96.8%
Median wage
$139,464
offered, per year
Median days
475
9 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.
Waiting on a decision
81
of 540 tracked cases. The other 459 have been decided.
The oldest one still waiting was filed May 9, 2025, 17 months ago.
Where those 81 are standing
- ANALYST REVIEW
- 8099%
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.
Follow Charles Schwab & Company, Inc.
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
- September 23 DOL certified 20 of its cases
Its newest filings
Filed since DOL's last quarterly file, so the wage and law firm aren't published yet.
- G-100-26281-288122 Sr Specialist - Data Engineering (011439.001945) filed 2026-10-08 · ANALYST REVIEW
- G-100-26281-288191 Manager, Software Development & Engineering(011439.001325) filed 2026-10-08 · ANALYST REVIEW
- G-100-26281-288215 Sr Manager, Data Engineering Senior (011439.000629) filed 2026-10-08 · ANALYST REVIEW
- G-100-26281-288260 Manager, Risk Analytics/Modeling (011439.001598) filed 2026-10-08 · ANALYST REVIEW
- G-100-26281-288301 Specialist, SW Development & Engineering (011439.001816) filed 2026-10-08 · ANALYST REVIEW
- G-100-26278-279811 Manager, Software Development & Engineering (011439.001378) filed 2026-10-05 · ANALYST REVIEW
- G-100-26278-280511 Sr Manager, SW Development & Eng'g Sr(011439.001995) filed 2026-10-05 · ANALYST REVIEW
- G-100-26278-280601 Sr Manager, SW Development & Eng'g Sr (011439.002060)** filed 2026-10-05 · ANALYST REVIEW
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
- 282 days
Charles Schwab & Company, Inc.
median of 29 decisions in the last 90 days
- 302 days
Every employer
median of 30,133 decisions in the same 90 days
20 days shorter than everyone's over this window. 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 80,340 cases, and would be decided around March 19, 2027 (between February 27, 2027 and April 28, 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)
- 412 published
- 81 pending
- $139,464 median, n=412
- Prevailing wage requests
- 509 published
- 27 pending
- $139,464 median, n=492
- H-1B labor condition applications
- 3,360 published
- 2 pending
- $140,000 median, n=3,359
Its median H-1B wage ($140,000 across 3,359 LCAs) and its median PERM wage ($139,464 across 412 cases) are within 2% of each other.
Of its 81 pending PERM cases, 1 (1.2%) 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 4 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 Charles Schwab & Company, Inc., newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.
Wage requests
- P-100-26281-288013 Sr. Mgr, Business Systems Analysis Sr (011439.001950) 2026-10-08 · IN PROCESS
- P-100-26272-267161 Sr Mgr, SW Development & Engineering Sr (011439.001515) 2026-09-29 · IN PROCESS
- P-100-26272-266917 Sr Manager, Data Engineering Senior (011439.002044) 2026-09-29 · IN PROCESS
- P-100-26272-266899 Sr Specialist, SW Development & Engineering (011439.002200) 2026-09-29 · IN PROCESS
- P-100-26272-266863 Manager, Software Development & Engineering (011439.002027) 2026-09-29 · IN PROCESS
H-1B LCAs
- I-200-26293-312746 Sr Manager, Software Development & Engineering Lea 2026-10-20 · IN PROCESS
- I-200-26289-305711 Sr. Specialist - Software Development & Engineering 2026-10-16 · IN PROCESS
- I-200-26286-295975 Sr. Manager, Software Development & Engineering Sr. 2026-10-13 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-26286-295965 Sr. Manager, Software Development & Engineering Lead (PL) 2026-10-13 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-26286-295954 Director, Digital Product Management (PL) 2026-10-13 · CERTIFIED
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: 3,360 LCAs filed by Charles Schwab & Company, Inc., 3,299 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.
New hires and transfers
286 positions for new employment, 1,253 moving here from another employer.
- New employment 7a 286 · 8%
- Change of employer 7e 1,253 · 37%
- Continuing 7b 1,633 · 48%
- Change in previous employment 7c 1 · 1%
- Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
- Amended petition 7f 202 · 6%
Shares of the 3,375 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 57 · 2%
- Level II 427 · 13%
- Level III 1,084 · 34%
- Level IV 1,655 · 51%
Shares of the 3,223 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 3,299 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 29, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 3,139 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 3,333. 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 3,332 · E-3 (Australia) 28. 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.
How it compares with other sponsors
Each figure ranked only among sponsors with enough cases for it to mean something. No single score: they measure different things.
PERM approval rate
99.5% of 401 decided PERM cases
Higher than 29% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.
PERM filings in the last 12 months
109 filed in the last 12 months
Higher than 99% of the 13,995 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.
H-1B LCAs certified in the last 24 months
902 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
19% of 1,071 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026
Higher than 62% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.
Share of H-1B LCAs at wage level III or IV
90% of 1,010 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026
Higher than 97% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.
USCIS H-1B approval rate, last 3 fiscal years
99.1% of 1,281 USCIS decisions
Higher than 56% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.
Approval rate
99.5%ahead of 29%
Median days to decision
475 daysahead of 36%
Each bar counts sponsors at that value. More
Against the sponsors ranked nearest
The 120 sponsors ranked nearest filed between 258 and 1,091 filings.
- Their median wait
- 462 days
- This one
- 475 days
This one sits 13 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 87 of 70,985 by volume: 86 filed at least as many filings, and 70,898 filed no more.
- Just above
- Visa Technology & Operations LLC 416 filings
- Just below
- Charter Communications, Inc. 408 filings
Sponsors filing at the same rate
Ranked either side of this one: they file about as many PERM cases.
- #86 Visa Technology & Operations LLC 416 filings · 1 denied
- #88 Charter Communications, Inc. 408 filings · 3 denied
- #85 Sapphire Software Solutions, Inc. 424 filings · 2 denied
- #89 DFS Corporate Services LLC 408 filings · none denied
- #84 Lucid USA, Inc. 424 filings · 2 denied
- #90 PECO FOODS, INC 399 filings · none denied
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
SOC 15-1252.00 · 271 filings, 66% of everything they file · 99.6% approved
- Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 15-1253.0038
- Computer Systems Analysts 15-1211.0018
- Software Quality Assurance Engineers and Testers 15-119911
- Information Security Analysts 15-1212.009
- Project Management Specialists 13-1082.009
How this is counted
These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 356 of 412 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
Investment Banking and Securities Intermediation
NAICS 52315, 523150 · 198 filings
- Investment Banking and Securities Dealing 523110, 52311140
- Securities and Commodity Contracts Intermediation and Brokerage 523173
- Commercial Banking 5221101
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
- Texas 327
- Colorado 28
- Illinois 12
- California 11
- North Carolina 9
- Arizona 8
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 395 of 412 filings.
Where the work is
- Westlake, TX 196
- Austin, TX 130
- Lone Tree, CO 27
- Chicago, IL 12
- San Francisco, CA 9
- Phoenix, AZ 8
How this is counted
The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 382 of 412 filings.
Who files for them
- Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. 272 filings · 100.0% approved
- FRAGOMEN, DEL REY, BERNSEN & LOEWY, LLP 76 filings · 97.4% approved
- Ogletree Deakins 54 filings · 100.0% approved
- Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. 1 filings
How this is counted
The law firm named on the application. 403 of 412 filings, 98% of the total.
Newspapers it advertised in
- 165 cases
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
- 98 cases
Austin American-Statesman
- 24 cases
The Denver Post
- 9 cases
Chicago Tribune
- 6 cases
San Francisco Chronicle
- 5 cases
The Herald-Sun
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
- 342 cases
Job search websites
- 341 cases
The employer's website
- 228 cases
Employee referral programs
- 114 cases
Local or ethnic newspapers
- 1 cases
Job fairs
- 1 cases
Private employment firms
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
- 0.0%
Under 30 days
- 0.0%
30 to 59 days
- 23%
60 to 89 days
- 35%
90 to 119 days
- 18%
120 to 149 days
- 23%
150 to 180 days
- 0.0%
Over 180 days
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.
History
Year by year since 2008
880 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2026 with 218.
- 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 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2009 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2010 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2011 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2012 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2013 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2014 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2015 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2016 | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2017 | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2018 | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2019 | 41 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2020 | 14 | 1 | 0 |
| FY2021 | 126 | 1 | 0 |
| FY2022 | 110 | 8 | 2 |
| FY2023 | 82 | 1 | 1 |
| FY2024 | 68 | 2 | 6 |
| FY2025 | 114 | 0 | 4 |
| FY2026 | 217 | 0 | 1 |
Decided in FY2016 to FY2023
The 25 most recent of 433. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.
| Case | Decided | Outcome | Job | Offered wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A-22228-06313 | 2023-09-26 | certified | Sr. Staff, Software Applications Engineer, TX | $133,120 |
| A-22298-45349 | 2023-09-21 | certified | Software Developer Senior, TX | $128,646 |
| A-22223-04051 | 2023-09-15 | certified | Software Developer Senior, TX | $145,000 |
| A-22242-13957 | 2023-08-29 | certified | Senior Specialist - Software Development & Engineering, TX | $117,000 |
| A-22192-85805 | 2023-08-25 | certified | Software Developer Senior, TX | $153,005 |
| A-22241-13176 | 2023-08-21 | certified | Software Engineer, TX | $125,000 |
| A-22202-92150 | 2023-08-21 | certified | Software Developer Senior, CO | $148,500 |
| A-22241-13165 | 2023-08-21 | certified | Sr. Staff - Software Development and Engineering, CO | $106,746 |
The other 17
| A-22236-10880 | 2023-08-21 | certified | Senior Lead – Software Development & Engineering, TX | $117,000 |
| A-22215-99135 | 2023-08-21 | certified | Risk Analyzer/Modeler, CO | $136,500 |
| A-22217-00723 | 2023-08-21 | certified | Finance Manager, TX | $105,000 |
| A-22202-92128 | 2023-08-18 | certified | Sr. Specialist - Software Development & Engineering, TX | $120,775 |
| A-22215-99121 | 2023-08-18 | certified | Risk Analyzer/Modeler, CO | $120,750 |
| A-22217-00761 | 2023-08-09 | certified | Software Developer, TX | $141,000 |
| A-22202-92064 | 2023-07-26 | certified | Software Developer Senior, TX | $141,400 |
| A-22236-10854 | 2023-07-26 | certified | Software Developer IV, TX | $147,830 |
| A-22161-69558 | 2023-07-25 | certified | Software Development Engineer, TX | $120,982 |
| A-22217-00793 | 2023-07-17 | certified | Sr. Java Developer, TX | $160,000 |
| A-22202-92137 | 2023-07-17 | certified | Sr. Staff, Software Applications Engineer, TX | $133,120 |
| A-21301-64635 | 2023-07-17 | certified | Software Developer Senior, TX | $128,646 |
| A-22185-82864 | 2023-07-14 | certified | Software Developer III, NC | $131,851 |
| A-22198-89679 | 2023-07-10 | certified | Specialist - Software Development & Engineering, TX | $106,952 |
| A-22192-86589 | 2023-07-10 | certified | Software Developer III, CO | $124,675 |
| A-22184-82848 | 2023-07-10 | certified | Security Analyst, AZ | $130,295 |
| A-22208-95331 | 2023-07-03 | certified | Network Engineer, AZ | $115,502 |
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 409
- China 9
- Canada 7
- Australia 2
- Mexico 2
- Pakistan 2
Worker's education
- Bachelor's 224
- Master's 202
- Other 4
- Doctorate 3
Visa held when filed
- H-1B 424
- E-3 2
- TN 2
- E-2 1
- F-1 1
- H-1A 1
Schools
- JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 32
- OSMANIA UNIVERSITY 15
- ANNA UNIVERSITY 12
- JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD 12
- UNIVERSITY OF PUNE 11
- ANDHRA UNIVERSITY 8
Fields of study
- COMPUTER SCIENCE 61
- COMPUTER ENGINEERING 48
- ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 42
- INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 36
- COMPUTER APPLICATIONS 26
- APPLIED COMPUTER SCIENCE 16
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, 271 of 412. 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 412 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 87. 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 401 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 TX. 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.