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PERM sponsor, #148 of 70,985 by filings

CVS Pharmacy, Inc.

CVS Pharmacy, Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 109 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 15, 2026. CVS Pharmacy, Inc. has 9 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers · 62% of its filings
Main worksite
Woonsocket, RI · 60% of its filings
Industry
Pharmacies and Drug Stores · NAICS 446110

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Filings

258

#148 of 70,985

Certified

251

0 denied

Approval

100.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$129,605

offered, per year

Median days

483

17 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 321 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

9

of 321 tracked cases. The other 312 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed December 16, 2025, 10 months ago.

Where those 9 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
9100%

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 321 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 321, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 19, 2026

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What DOL has done to its cases as a group

  1. September 25 DOL certified 20 of its cases
  2. September 24 DOL certified 10 of its cases
  3. September 22 DOL certified 15 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. CVS Pharmacy, Inc.

    median of 99 decisions in the last 90 days

    289 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 28,776 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 80,916 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)
258 published
9 pending
$129,605 median, n=258
Prevailing wage requests
434 published
75 pending
$118,102 median, n=430
H-1B labor condition applications
2,362 published
5 pending
$133,754 median, n=2,360

Its median H-1B wage is $133,754 across 2,360 LCAs, 3.2% higher than its median PERM wage of $129,605 across 258 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 CVS Pharmacy, 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: 2,362 LCAs filed by CVS Pharmacy, Inc., 2,343 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

124 positions for new employment, 914 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 124 · 5%
  • Change of employer 7e 914 · 39%
  • Continuing 7b 953 · 41%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 109 · 5%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 256 · 11%

Shares of the 2,352 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 84 · 4%
  • Level II 484 · 21%
  • Level III 708 · 31%
  • Level IV 1,020 · 44%

Shares of the 2,296 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; 47 of 2,343 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 1 of 2,229 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 2,351. 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 2,351 · E-3 (Australia) 11. 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 251 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 67% 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 13,949 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    569 certified in the last 24 months

    At the top of the 27,903 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    15% of 680 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 52% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    74% of 674 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 88% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    99.4% of 827 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 58% 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

483 daysahead of 24%

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 185 and 408 filings.

Their median wait
462 days
This one
483 days

This one sits 21 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 148 of 70,985 by volume: 147 filed at least as many filings, and 70,837 filed no more.

Just above
Cigna-Evernorth Services Inc. 258 filings
Just below
T-Mobile USA, Inc. 255 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 · 159 filings, 62% of everything they file · 100.0% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 217 of 258 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

Pharmacies and Drug Stores

NAICS 446110, 44611 · 163 filings

  • Pharmacies and Drug Retailers 45611, 45611085
  • Pharmaceutical and Medicine Manufacturing 325419
  • Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services 5192901
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

  • Rhode Island 157
  • Texas 31
  • Arizona 23
  • Illinois 21
  • New Jersey 7
  • Massachusetts 6
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 245 of 258 filings.

Where the work is

  • Woonsocket, RI 155
  • Richardson, TX 26
  • Scottsdale, AZ 22
  • Buffalo Grove, IL 21
  • Florham Park, NJ 7
  • High Point, NC 5
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 236 of 258 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. 257 filings · 100.0% approved
  2. Ogletree, Deakins, Nashlt; Smoak Stewart, P.C. 1 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 258 of 258 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. Providence Journal

    128 cases

  2. The Dallas Morning News

    21 cases

  3. The Arizona Republic

    18 cases

  4. Chicago Tribune

    15 cases

  5. Providence Sunday Journal

    9 cases

  6. The New York Times

    6 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. The employer's website

    210 cases

  2. Job search websites

    210 cases

  3. Employee referral programs

    209 cases

  4. Local or ethnic newspapers

    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

    0.5%

  3. 60 to 89 days

    18%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    20%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    26%

  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 2008

565 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2026 with 172.

  • 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 0 2 0
FY2009 0 0 0
FY2010 0 0 0
FY2011 0 0 0
FY2012 9 0 0
FY2013 4 0 0
FY2014 8 1 1
FY2015 31 0 3
FY2016 77 0 0
FY2017 33 1 0
FY2018 26 1 2
FY2019 15 0 0
FY2020 2 0 0
FY2021 13 0 0
FY2022 22 0 0
FY2023 56 0 0
FY2024 56 0 3
FY2025 24 0 3
FY2026 171 0 1

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 248. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22280-35762 2023-09-22 certified Senior Advisor, Application Development, RI $128,581
A-22291-41682 2023-09-12 certified Sr. Product Manager, MA $153,740
A-22291-41638 2023-09-12 certified Sr. Digital Development Engineer, RI $156,731
A-22269-28277 2023-09-12 certified Sr. Analyst, IT Systems, RI $105,189
A-22276-32252 2023-09-12 certified Sr. Analyst, Application Development, RI $97,598
A-22276-32189 2023-09-12 certified Sr. Digital Development Engineer, TX $130,625
A-22264-25839 2023-09-12 certified Digital Development Engineer, RI $107,641
A-22287-39996 2023-09-11 certified Senior Advisor, Application Development, RI $128,581
The other 17
A-22269-27993 2023-09-06 certified Sr. Analyst, Application Development, IL $125,445
A-22270-29152 2023-09-01 certified Director, Digital Engineering, RI $213,016
A-22276-32563 2023-08-23 certified Digital Dev Engineer, IL $157,000
A-22271-29854 2023-08-15 certified Sr. Digital Development Engineer, AZ $135,456
A-22264-25814 2023-07-31 certified Sr. Manager, Rx Product Development, RI $121,928
A-22243-14668 2023-07-28 certified Senior Manager, Analytics, RI $122,337
A-22243-15218 2023-07-10 certified Digital Sr Dev Engineer, IL $181,081
A-22234-09943 2023-06-15 certified Advisor, Architecture, RI $125,934
A-22229-07662 2023-06-15 certified Digital Development Engineer, IL $129,248
A-22223-04336 2023-06-14 certified Sr. Digital Development Engineer, AZ $135,456
A-22236-11061 2023-06-14 certified Senior Advisor, Architecture, RI $138,029
A-22234-09582 2023-06-13 certified Sr. Analyst, Quality Assurance, RI $87,913
A-22132-54261 2023-06-13 certified Sr. Manager, Quality Assurance, TX $135,200
A-22084-30760 2023-06-13 certified Advisor, Production Support Services, RI $103,000
A-22137-56650 2023-06-13 certified Advisor, Application Development, TX $131,820
A-22132-54445 2023-06-13 certified Advisor, Application Development, TX $130,803
A-22132-54390 2023-06-13 certified Advisor, Application Development, TX $130,803

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 225
  • China 11
  • Canada 2
  • Mexico 2
  • Australia 1
  • Brazil 1

Worker's education

  • Master's 137
  • Bachelor's 110
  • None 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 246

Schools

  • ANNA UNIVERSITY 12
  • UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS 11
  • JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 10
  • OSMANIA UNIVERSITY 7
  • UTTAR PRADESH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY 7
  • ANDHRA UNIVERSITY 4

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 37
  • INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 20
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 17
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING 13
  • COMPUTER APPLICATIONS 12
  • ENGINEERING 11

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, 159 of 258. 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 258 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 148. 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 251 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 RI. 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 19, 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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