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PERM sponsor, #327 of 70,985 by filings

Costco Wholesale Corporation

Costco Wholesale Corporation sponsors green cards: it filed 33 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 23, 2026. Costco Wholesale Corporation has 26 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers · 55% of its filings
Main worksite
Issaquah, WA · 98% of its filings
Industry
Warehouse Clubs and Supercenters · NAICS 452311

Waiting on a case with Costco Wholesale Corporation?

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

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This rate is level with the field

Over 108 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 3.4% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

111

#327 of 70,985

Certified

108

0 denied

Approval

100.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$141,000

offered, per year

Median days

476

10 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 149 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

26

of 149 tracked cases. The other 123 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed January 7, 2026, 9 months ago.

Where those 26 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
26100%

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 149 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 149, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 25, 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. Costco Wholesale Corporation

    median of 7 decisions in the last 90 days

    301 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 32,343 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 79,966 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)
111 published
26 pending
$141,000 median, n=111
Prevailing wage requests
160 published
7 pending
$110,635 median, n=158
H-1B labor condition applications
695 published
3 pending
$145,000 median, n=694

Its median H-1B wage is $145,000 across 694 LCAs, 2.8% higher than its median PERM wage of $141,000 across 111 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 Costco Wholesale Corporation, 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: 695 LCAs filed by Costco Wholesale Corporation, 644 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

39 positions for new employment, 308 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 39 · 6%
  • Change of employer 7e 308 · 44%
  • Continuing 7b 112 · 16%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 184 · 26%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 55 · 8%

Shares of the 698 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 75 · 12%
  • Level II 372 · 58%
  • Level III 148 · 23%
  • Level IV 47 · 7%

Shares of the 642 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 644 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 22, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 656 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 690. 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 690 · E-3 (Australia) 5. 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 108 decided PERM cases

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

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    33 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 98% of the 14,049 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    206 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 98% of the 27,833 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    20% of 239 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 66% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    29% of 237 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 47% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    100.0% of 290 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 80% 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

476 daysahead of 34%

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 94 and 142 filings.

Their median wait
471 days
This one
476 days

This one sits 5 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 327 of 70,985 by volume: 326 filed at least as many filings, and 70,658 filed no more.

Just above
Delta Air Lines, Inc. 112 filings
Just below
MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY 111 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 · 61 filings, 55% of everything they file · 100.0% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 93 of 111 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

Warehouse Clubs and Supercenters

NAICS 452311, 455211 · 99 filings

  • General Merchandise Stores (Census group 452) 4529107
  • General Merchandise Stores, including Warehouse Clubs and Supercenters 452315
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

  • Washington 109
  • Illinois 2
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 111 of 111 filings.

Where the work is

  • Issaquah, WA 109
  • Schaumburg, IL 2
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 2 cities cover 111 of 111 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Fisher & Phillips LLP 108 filings · 100.0% approved
  2. MacDonald Hoague & Bayless 2 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 110 of 111 filings, 99% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Seattle Times

    102 cases

  2. Chicago Tribune

    2 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

    104 cases

  2. Local or ethnic newspapers

    104 cases

  3. Radio or TV ads

    102 cases

  4. The employer's website

    2 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

    48%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    40%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    5.8%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    5.8%

  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

245 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2026 with 50.

  • 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 2 1 0
FY2009 0 0 0
FY2010 1 0 0
FY2011 0 0 0
FY2012 1 0 0
FY2013 4 0 0
FY2014 1 0 0
FY2015 4 0 0
FY2016 7 0 0
FY2017 9 1 0
FY2018 4 0 2
FY2019 0 0 0
FY2020 4 0 0
FY2021 47 0 0
FY2022 37 0 1
FY2023 8 0 0
FY2024 11 0 1
FY2025 47 0 2
FY2026 50 0 0

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-22216-00358 2023-05-16 certified Quality Engineer, WA $130,000
A-22199-89791 2023-05-02 certified Quality Engineer, WA $110,000
A-22131-53546 2023-04-06 certified Full Stack Engineer, WA $175,000
A-22159-68390 2023-03-27 certified Full Stack Engineer, WA $150,000
A-22145-61039 2023-03-06 certified Full Stack Engineer, WA $125,000
A-22145-60966 2023-03-06 certified SAP Functional Analyst, WA $150,000
A-22110-43313 2023-01-23 certified Full Stack Engineer, WA $119,350
A-22111-43998 2023-01-18 certified Quality Engineer, WA $140,000
The other 17
A-22024-01685 2022-09-20 certified Quality Engineer, WA $140,920
A-21292-60192 2022-09-13 certified Software Developer, WA $113,000
A-21292-60136 2022-09-13 certified Java Application Developer – eCommerce, WA $110,000
A-21271-51259 2022-09-13 certified SAP Security Analyst, WA $154,700
A-21306-66676 2022-06-21 certified SAP Basis Tools Administrator, WA $140,920
A-21251-41086 2022-06-09 certified Functional Analyst – eCommerce SAP EWM Fulfillment, WA $135,600
A-21320-73614 2022-06-08 certified Quality Engineer, WA $118,000
A-21320-73721 2022-06-08 certified Manhattan Associates WMi Configuration Developer, WA $142,000
A-21291-59945 2022-05-26 certified IBM Sterling OMS - Developer, WA $125,000
A-21215-26221 2022-05-16 certified Java Software Developer, WA $105,000
A-21305-66377 2022-05-05 withdrawn SAP Hana Basis Administrator, WA $147,000
A-21194-16226 2022-04-04 certified BPM Application Admin Analyst, WA $125,000
A-21174-05918 2022-04-04 certified International SAP Functional Analyst, WA $110,000
A-21174-05916 2022-04-04 certified Application Integration Developer, WA $127,500
A-21134-86869 2022-04-04 certified Software Developer, WA $105,000
A-21187-12455 2022-04-04 certified Software Developer, WA $118,000
A-21134-86847 2022-03-15 certified Software Developer (BI), WA $107,200

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 118
  • Canada 1
  • Ireland 1

Worker's education

  • None 87
  • Bachelor's 26
  • Master's 7

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 120

Schools

  • COCHIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 4
  • BHARATHIAR UNIVERSITY 2
  • NAGARJUNA UNIVERSITY 2
  • RAJIV GANDHI PROUDYOGIKI VISHWAVIDYALAYA, BHOPAL 2
  • VISVESWARAIAH TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, BELGAUM 2
  • ANNA UNIVERSITY CHENNAI 1

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 5
  • ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 4
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING 3
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 3
  • COMMERCE 2
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 2

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, 61 of 111. 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 111 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 327. 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 108 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 WA. 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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