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PERM sponsor, #301 of 70,985 by filings

F5, Inc.

F5, Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 11 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on September 9, 2026. F5, Inc. has 11 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers · 52% of its filings
Main worksite
Seattle, WA · 60% of its filings
Industry
Other Computer Related Services · NAICS 541519

Waiting on a case with F5, Inc.?

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This rate is level with the field

Over 124 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 4.4% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

124

#301 of 70,985

Certified

123

1 denied

Approval

99.2%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$163,862

offered, per year

Median days

466

at the field median

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 131 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

11

of 131 tracked cases. The other 120 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed May 22, 2026, 4 months ago.

Where those 11 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
11100%

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 131 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 131, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 19, 2026

Follow F5, 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

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.

Layoff notices filed by F5, Inc.

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.

  • August 12, 2025, layoff, permanent, 106 employees, Seattle and Liberty Lake, effective October 15, 2025. Washington WARN report

How long it takes

How long their cases are taking

  1. Every employer

    median of 29,263 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 80,773 cases, and would be decided around March 16, 2027 (between February 24, 2027 and April 25, 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)
124 published
11 pending
$163,862 median, n=124
Prevailing wage requests
141 published
8 pending
$137,259 median, n=141
H-1B labor condition applications
812 published
3 pending
$161,655 median, n=812

Its median H-1B wage ($161,655 across 812 LCAs) and its median PERM wage ($163,862 across 124 cases) are within 2% of each other.

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; 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 F5, 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: 812 LCAs filed by F5, Inc., 766 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

211 positions for new employment, 172 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 211 · 28%
  • Change of employer 7e 172 · 22%
  • Continuing 7b 277 · 36%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 33 · 4%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 3 · 1%
  • Amended petition 7f 75 · 10%

Shares of the 766 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 85 · 12%
  • Level II 260 · 36%
  • Level III 292 · 41%
  • Level IV 79 · 11%

Shares of the 716 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; 50 of 766 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 18, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 806 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 806. 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 806 · E-3 (Australia) 5 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 1. 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

    99.2% of 124 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 27% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    11 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 91% of the 13,965 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    272 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 99% of the 27,903 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    20% of 303 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

    57% of 273 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 72% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    99.1% of 317 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 55% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

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

Approval rate

99.2%ahead of 27%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

466 daysahead of 48%

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 102 and 161 filings.

Their median wait
471 days
This one
466 days

This one sits 5 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 301 of 70,985 by volume: 300 filed at least as many filings, and 70,684 filed no more.

Just above
Pacific Investment Management Company LLC 124 filings
Just below
SPOTIFY USA, INC. 124 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 · 64 filings, 52% of everything they file · 100.0% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 99 of 124 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

Other Computer Related Services

NAICS 541519 · 121 filings

  • Telephone Apparatus Manufacturing 3342103
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 75
  • California 47
  • Colorado 1
  • Massachusetts 1
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 4 states cover 124 of 124 filings.

Where the work is

  • Seattle, WA 75
  • San Jose, CA 47
  • Billerica, MA 1
  • Louisville, CO 1
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 4 cities cover 124 of 124 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Erickson Immigration Group 123 filings · 99.2% approved
  2. Cowan Miller Lederman 1 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 124 of 124 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Seattle Times

    73 cases

  2. San Francisco Chronicle

    40 cases

  3. Boston Sunday Globe

    1 cases

  4. The Denver Post

    1 cases

  5. San Francisco Chorinicle

    1 cases

  6. San Francisoo Chronicle

    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

    116 cases

  2. Local or ethnic newspapers

    116 cases

  3. Campus placement offices

    83 cases

  4. The employer's website

    33 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

    37%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    32%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    28%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    3.4%

  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 2022

157 PERM decisions from FY2022 to FY2026, busiest in FY2025 with 82.

  • 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
FY2022 3 0 0
FY2023 28 0 2
FY2024 7 1 0
FY2025 82 0 0
FY2026 34 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 33. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22264-25389 2023-09-08 certified Senior Solutions Engineer, CA $185,723
A-22265-26425 2023-09-08 certified Senior Manager, Product Development, CA $206,000
A-22279-34839 2023-09-06 certified Senior Manager, Consulting (Solutions Architect), CA $240,000
A-22280-35937 2023-09-05 certified Principal Software Engineer, CA $240,000
A-22242-14190 2023-08-31 certified Software Engineer III, WA $139,961
A-22271-29934 2023-08-29 certified Software Development Engineer III, WA $127,500
A-22280-35616 2023-08-29 certified Manager, Engineering, CA $205,000
A-22243-14722 2023-08-28 certified Software Engineer II, WA $139,961
The other 17
A-22271-30034 2023-08-23 certified Software Engineer III, WA $142,546
A-22250-17904 2023-08-17 certified Senior Systems Administrator, WA $120,461
A-21361-90824 2023-08-17 certified Senior Software Engineer, WA $164,800
A-22222-03872 2023-07-05 certified Senior Tax Analyst, WA $102,086
A-22221-02813 2023-06-20 certified Security Engineer, CA $124,051
A-22134-55357 2023-06-16 certified Principal Software Engineer, WA $190,550
A-22132-54324 2023-06-16 certified GRC Analyst, WA $140,000
A-22132-54552 2023-06-16 certified Sr. Technical Account Manager - GS, WA $150,800
A-22132-54385 2023-03-21 withdrawn Sr. Technical Account Manager - GS, WA $160,006
A-22126-51791 2023-02-27 certified Sr Scrum Master, WA $140,000
A-22132-54128 2023-02-01 certified Software Engineer III, WA $144,340
A-22012-96904 2023-01-26 certified Software Engineer – Solution Lead, CA $212,000
A-22026-03279 2023-01-24 certified Consultant I, NY $130,000
A-22123-49654 2023-01-24 certified Business Systems Analyst, WA $116,775
A-22116-46371 2023-01-20 certified Senior Scrum Master, WA $129,780
A-22110-43739 2023-01-18 certified Software Engineer I, WA $119,350
A-22010-95635 2023-01-17 certified Software Engineer III, WA $166,720

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 26
  • China 3
  • Mexico 1
  • Philippines 1
  • Sudan 1
  • United Kingdom 1

Worker's education

  • Master's 23
  • Bachelor's 8
  • Doctorate 1
  • High School 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 29
  • L-1 3
  • TN 1

Schools

  • SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY 2
  • ACHARYA NAGARJUNA UNIVERSITY 1
  • ANNA UNIVERSITY 1
  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY 1
  • BHARATHIAR UNIVERSITY 1
  • CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, EAST BAY 1

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 10
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 3
  • ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 3
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 2
  • INFORMATION SYSTEMS 2
  • ACCOUNTING 1

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, 64 of 124. 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 124 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 301. 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 124 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 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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