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PERM sponsor, #3,098 of 70,985 by filings

Chevron Corporation

Main job
Marine Engineers and Naval Architects · 20% of its filings
Main worksite
Houston, TX · 40% of its filings
Industry
Oil and Gas Extraction · NAICS 2111

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Too few cases for a rate

15 decided filings: too few for an approval rate.

Why

Across every PERM case DOL decided in this window, 3.20% were denied. At that rate a file this size comes back clean most of the time whatever the sponsor did, so a percentage would be a fact about how few cases there are. Telling a clean record apart from the field takes about 117 decided cases.

Filings

15

#3,098 of 70,985

Certified

15

0 denied

Approval

Not shown

withheld: 15 decided

Median wage

$166,400

offered, per year

Median days

465

1 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 8 cases in the live tracker

Nothing for this sponsor is waiting on a decision. All 8 of their cases in the live tracker are closed.

All 8 of this sponsor's cases in DOL's live status are decided: nothing of theirs is in the queue. Live case tracker, as of October 18, 2026

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What DOL has done to its cases as a group

Nothing employer-wide since this site's record began on August 27, 2026.

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Layoff notices filed by Chevron Corporation

Notices of a mass layoff or closing filed with the state under the WARN Act, as the state printed them, matched to this sponsor by name. What a layoff means for a PERM.

  • July 1, 2026, layoff permanent, 180 employees, Contra Costa County, effective September 1, 2026. California WARN report 5001 Executive Parkway, Suite 200, San Ramon CA 94583

How long it takes

How long their cases are taking

  1. Every employer

    median of 28,615 decisions in the same 90 days

    302 days

None of their cases were decided in the last 90 days, too few for a median of their own. 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)
15 published
0 pending
$166,400 median, n=15
Prevailing wage requests
8 published
0 pending
8 wages, under the floor
H-1B labor condition applications
249 published
0 pending
$171,000 median, n=249

Its median H-1B wage is $171,000 across 249 LCAs, 2.8% higher than its median PERM wage of $166,400 across 15 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 Chevron Corporation, newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.

Wage requests

  • P-100-24030-677320 Senior Flow Assurance Engineer 2 $195,832 per year 2024-01-30 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-24002-608482 Process Engineer $126,630 per year 2024-01-02 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-23347-564214 Senior Production Engineer $179,608 per year 2023-12-13 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-23222-256082 Maintenance Planning Specialist $83,054 per year 2023-08-10 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-23192-180785 Senior Completions Engineer $137,030 per year 2023-07-11 · DETERMINATION ISSUED

All wage requests by this employer

H-1B LCAs

  • I-200-26243-205074 Production Analyst 2026-08-31 · CERTIFIED
  • I-200-26149-961538 Product Owner, Subsurface - Digital Platform Well Testing $170,800 per year 2026-05-29 · CERTIFIED
  • I-200-26141-936584 Sr. Manager, Flow Assurance Systems - Offshore $243,900 per year 2026-05-21 · CERTIFIED
  • I-200-26141-936555 Senior Production Engineer $238,345 per year 2026-05-21 · CERTIFIED
  • I-200-26106-800814 Blending Specialist $183,790 per year 2026-04-16 · CERTIFIED

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: 249 LCAs filed by Chevron Corporation, 241 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

137 positions for new employment, 7 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 137 · 57%
  • Change of employer 7e 7 · 3%
  • Continuing 7b 80 · 33%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 6 · 2%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 11 · 5%

Shares of the 241 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 24 · 10%
  • Level II 54 · 23%
  • Level III 34 · 14%
  • Level IV 127 · 53%

Shares of the 239 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; 2 of 241 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 May 29, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 202 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 216. 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 214 · E-3 (Australia) 33 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 2. 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.

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

    28 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 87% of the 27,916 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    0.0% of 31 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 4% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    87% of 31 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 96% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    97.7% of 43 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 38% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

Position in the field 1,343 sponsors with 30+ decided

Approval rate

not shownunder 30 decided

0% 100%

Median days to decision

465 daysmiddle of 15 decided, too few to rank

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. This sponsor has 15 decided cases, so its median days is marked but left unranked, and no approval rate is drawn at all.
DOL PERM disclosure files

Against the sponsors ranked nearest

The 120 sponsors ranked nearest filed 15 filings each.

Their median wait
464 days
This one
465 days

This one sits 1 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 3,098 of 70,985 by volume: 3,097 filed at least as many filings, and 67,887 filed no more.

Just above
Penske Logistics LLC 15 filings
Just below
C.C.M.S. 15 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 Marine Engineers and Naval Architects, 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

Marine Engineers and Naval Architects

SOC 17-2121 · 3 filings, 20% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 9 of 15 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

Oil and Gas Extraction

NAICS 2111, 211 · 14 filings

  • Oil and Gas Extraction (Census group 2111) 2111111
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 8
  • California 4
  • Colorado 3
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 3 states cover 15 of 15 filings.

Where the work is

  • Houston, TX 6
  • Bakersfield, CA 2
  • Denver, CO 2
  • Midland, TX 2
  • El Segundo, CA 1
  • Greeley, CO 1
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 14 of 15 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Berry Appleman & Leiden LLP 15 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 15 of 15 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Bakersfield Californian

    2 cases

  2. The Denver Post

    2 cases

  3. Houston Chronicle

    2 cases

  4. Greeley Tribune

    1 cases

  5. Los Angeles Times

    1 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

    8 cases

  2. Local or ethnic newspapers

    8 cases

  3. Trade or professional organizations

    8 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

    38%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    38%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    0.0%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    25%

  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

175 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2010 with 34.

  • 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 22 0 0
FY2009 10 0 0
FY2010 33 1 0
FY2011 11 1 2
FY2012 17 1 0
FY2013 15 1 0
FY2014 9 0 0
FY2015 17 0 0
FY2016 1 0 0
FY2017 0 0 0
FY2018 0 0 0
FY2019 6 0 0
FY2020 5 0 0
FY2021 2 0 0
FY2022 2 0 0
FY2023 3 0 1
FY2024 7 0 0
FY2025 5 0 0
FY2026 3 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

All 20. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22263-24614 2023-08-22 certified Process Risk Advisor, TX $240,800
A-22257-21476 2023-08-03 certified Reliability Engineer, CA $152,400
A-22343-71202 2023-04-04 withdrawn Senior Business Analyst, TX $230,000
A-22020-00701 2023-01-23 certified Mid-Continent Business Unit Operations Support Manager, TX $277,700
A-21307-67743 2022-06-30 certified Procurement Operations Supervisor, MS $174,200
A-21204-21862 2022-01-28 certified Drilling and Completions Engineering Manager, CA $223,100
A-20219-85508 2021-04-08 certified General Counsel, Americas, Shipping & Pipeline, TX $366,600
A-20230-88882 2021-04-02 certified Waterflood Optimization Engineer, TX $163,300
The other 12
A-20099-40740 2020-09-28 certified Deputy Project Director, TX $253,400
A-20098-40348 2020-09-25 certified Central Engineering Team Lead/Alkylation Sr Process Engineer, CA $144,200
A-20057-23847 2020-07-06 certified Corporate Affairs Manager, Chevron Pipeline & Power, TX $159,300
A-19308-78828 2020-04-14 certified Technical Team Leader, Planning, Statistics and Decision Support, CA $148,000
A-19221-42314 2019-12-09 certified Senior Planning Analyst, CA $179,000
A-19172-21755 2019-09-20 certified Subsea GIS Analyst, TX $136,000
A-19127-01990 2019-09-10 certified Distillates Trader, Products, TX $109,899
A-19114-96950 2019-07-25 certified Staff Technical Service Engineer, CA $179,600
A-19109-95255 2019-07-15 certified Planning Analyst, TX $207,700
A-19064-79090 2019-05-30 certified Reservoir Simulation Engineer, TX $172,900
A-19004-58859 2019-05-01 certified AEO Technology Development Engineer, CA $134,500
A-14202-90705 2015-10-01 certified Production Engineer, TX $129,900

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

  • Canada 4
  • United Kingdom 3
  • India 2
  • Pakistan 2
  • Bangladesh 1
  • France 1

Worker's education

  • Master's 10
  • Bachelor's 7
  • Doctorate 2
  • Other 1

Visa held when filed

  • L-1 13
  • H-1B 5
  • TN 1

Schools

  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY 1
  • EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 1
  • FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY 1
  • HO CHI MINH CITY UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY 1
  • INSTITUT NATIONAL DES SCIENCES APPLIQUÉES DE ROUEN 1
  • ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY 1

Fields of study

  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 6
  • CHEMICAL ENGINEERING 4
  • PETROLEUM ENGINEERING 3
  • CHEMICAL AND MATERIALS ENGINEERING 1
  • CHEMISTRY ENGINEERING 1
  • ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES 1

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 3 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 #3,098 counts this page's cases only.

3 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 Marine Engineers and Naval Architects, 3 of 15. 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 15 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 3,098. 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 15 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 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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