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PERM sponsor, #514 of 70,985 by filings

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 7 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on September 29, 2026. Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. has 6 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers · 34% of its filings
Main worksite
Chicago, IL · 82% of its filings
Industry
Securities and Commodity Exchanges · NAICS 523210

Waiting on a case with Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.?

  • When it'll likely be decided
  • An email when DOL moves it

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This rate is level with the field

Over 66 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 10.4% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

71

#514 of 70,985

Certified

64

2 denied

Approval

97.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$123,000

offered, per year

Median days

450

16 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 86 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

6

of 86 tracked cases. The other 80 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed January 30, 2026, 8 months ago.

Where those 6 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
6100%

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 86 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 86, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 25, 2026

Follow Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.

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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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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. Every employer

    median of 32,343 decisions in the same 90 days

    301 days

Only 2 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 79,966 cases, and would be decided around March 23, 2027 (between March 3, 2027 and May 2, 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)
71 published
6 pending
$123,000 median, n=71
Prevailing wage requests
57 published
2 pending
$126,755 median, n=56
H-1B labor condition applications
470 published
1 pending
$115,000 median, n=470

Its median H-1B wage is $115,000 across 470 LCAs, 6.5% lower than its median PERM wage of $123,000 across 71 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 Chicago Mercantile Exchange 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: 470 LCAs filed by Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc., 460 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

109 positions for new employment, 94 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 109 · 24%
  • Change of employer 7e 94 · 20%
  • Continuing 7b 182 · 40%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 46 · 10%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 30 · 7%

Shares of the 460 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 21 · 5%
  • Level II 139 · 30%
  • Level III 156 · 34%
  • Level IV 144 · 31%

Shares of the 460 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; 0 of 460 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 445 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 468. 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 468 · E-3 (Australia) 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.

  • PERM approval rate

    97.0% of 66 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 14% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    7 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 86% of the 14,049 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    123 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 97% of the 27,833 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    12% of 139 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 42% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    66% of 139 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 81% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    96.2% of 185 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 23% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

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

Approval rate

97.0%ahead of 14%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

450 daysahead of 67%

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 66 and 80 filings.

Their median wait
458 days
This one
450 days

This one sits 8 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 514 of 70,985 by volume: 513 filed at least as many filings, and 70,471 filed no more.

Just above
Paragon Community Services LLC 72 filings
Just below
Genentech, Inc. 71 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 · 24 filings, 34% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 55 of 71 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

Securities and Commodity Exchanges

NAICS 523210, 52321 · 71 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

  • Illinois 58
  • New York 13
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 2 states cover 71 of 71 filings.

Where the work is

  • Chicago, IL 58
  • New York, NY 13
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 2 cities cover 71 of 71 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Vialto Partners LLP 71 filings · 97.0% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 71 of 71 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. Chicago Tribune

    43 cases

  2. The New York Times

    12 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

    55 cases

  2. Job search websites

    55 cases

  3. Local or ethnic newspapers

    55 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

    9.1%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    25%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    31%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    35%

  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 2011

223 PERM decisions from FY2011 to FY2026, busiest in FY2026 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
FY2011 5 0 0
FY2012 8 0 0
FY2013 0 0 0
FY2014 11 0 1
FY2015 7 0 0
FY2016 21 0 1
FY2017 11 0 0
FY2018 21 0 2
FY2019 9 0 0
FY2020 15 0 1
FY2021 26 0 0
FY2022 3 0 0
FY2023 10 0 0
FY2024 19 0 1
FY2025 15 0 2
FY2026 30 2 2

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 120. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22286-38712 2023-09-08 certified Senior Security Engineer, IL $133,600
A-22264-25513 2023-08-30 certified Sr. Quantitative Risk Management Associate, IL $105,000
A-22125-51031 2023-07-27 certified Senior Software Engineer, IL $125,445
A-22200-90987 2023-05-17 certified Senior Software Engineer, IL $125,445
A-22175-78098 2023-04-19 certified Senior Software Engineer, IL $125,445
A-22186-83446 2023-04-14 certified Senior Software Engineer, IL $125,445
A-22161-69729 2023-04-14 certified Senior Software Engineer, IL $125,445
A-22193-86991 2023-04-05 certified Senior Software Engineer, IL $125,445
The other 17
A-22098-37911 2023-02-10 certified Senior Software Engineer, IL $125,445
A-22098-37907 2023-02-10 certified Senior Software Engineer, IL $125,445
A-21288-59143 2022-08-29 certified Sr. Regulatory Data Scientist, IL $101,295
A-21293-61089 2022-08-29 certified Lead Software Engineer, IL $137,000
A-21204-21740 2022-01-28 certified Software Engineer III, IL $98,389
A-20238-91684 2021-08-19 certified Senior Software Engineer, IL $128,000
A-20238-91678 2021-07-01 certified Sr. QA Analyst, IL $116,000
A-20197-76457 2021-06-17 certified Lead Configuration Engineer, IL $121,500
A-20212-82804 2021-05-25 certified Lead Engineer - IAM, IL $130,000
A-20246-94883 2021-05-20 certified Director Software Engineering, IL $160,000
A-20241-93147 2021-05-20 certified Lead Systems Engineer, IL $121,500
A-20134-53694 2021-05-13 certified Lead Software Engineer in Test, IL $130,000
A-20107-43612 2021-05-12 certified Corporate Accounting Manager, IL $101,000
A-20142-56940 2021-04-16 certified Sr. Quantitative Risk Management Associate, IL $100,000
A-20104-42091 2021-04-15 certified Online Marketing Analyst, IL $75,600
A-20142-56941 2021-04-13 certified Sr. Quantitative Risk Management Associate, IL $100,000
A-20141-56926 2021-04-13 certified Sr. Quantitative Risk Management Associate, IL $100,000

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 77
  • China 31
  • United Kingdom 3
  • France 1
  • Ireland 1
  • Israel 1

Worker's education

  • Master's 76
  • Bachelor's 42
  • Doctorate 2

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 108
  • L-1 7
  • NOT IN USA 2
  • F-1 1
  • TN 1

Schools

  • ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 16
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 12
  • UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS 5
  • ACHARYA NAGARJUNA UNIVERSITY 3
  • JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 3
  • OSMANIA UNIVERSITY 3

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 15
  • FINANCIAL MATHEMATICS 15
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 13
  • FINANCE 9
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 6
  • APPLIED COMPUTER SCIENCE 5

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, 24 of 71. 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 71 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 514. 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 66 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 IL. 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 25, 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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