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PERM sponsor, #243 of 70,985 by filings

FACEBOOK, INC.

Main job
Software Developers, Systems Software · 36% of its filings
Main worksite
Menlo Park, CA · 53% of its filings
Industry
Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals · NAICS 51913

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Filings

161

#243 of 70,985

Certified

14

145 denied

Approval

8.8%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$160,580

offered, per year

Median days

1,152

686 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.

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Fewer than five of its PERM cases are pending as of October 19, 2026, and the census that draws this bar starts at five.

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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How long it takes

How long their cases are taking

  1. Every employer

    median of 29,126 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 80,651 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)
161 published
no live read
$160,580 median, n=161
Prevailing wage requests
1 published
0 pending
1 wage, under the floor
H-1B labor condition applications
11,752 published
0 pending
$169,000 median, n=11,739

Its median H-1B wage is $169,000 across 11,739 LCAs, 5.2% higher than its median PERM wage of $160,580 across 161 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 FACEBOOK, 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: 11,752 LCAs filed by FACEBOOK, INC., 11,200 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

11,912 positions for new employment, 4,672 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 11,912 · 57%
  • Change of employer 7e 4,672 · 22%
  • Continuing 7b 2,885 · 14%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 114 · 1%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 7 · 1%
  • Amended petition 7f 1,487 · 7%

Shares of the 21,067 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 45 · 1%
  • Level II 1,097 · 11%
  • Level III 3,880 · 37%
  • Level IV 5,425 · 52%

Shares of the 10,447 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; 753 of 11,200 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
Yes
Found a willful violator
No

As answered on its newest LCA, filed December 16, 2021. Declared H-1B-dependent on 9,126 of 9,130 LCAs, and a willful violator on 17 of 11,250. 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 11,242 · E-3 (Australia) 371 · H-1B1 (Chile) 46 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 93. 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

    8.8% of 159 decided PERM cases

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

Also on its record

  • Its newest LCA that answered declared it H-1B dependent (decided 2022-08-03).
  • It declared itself a willful violator on 17 LCAs.
Position in the field 1,343 sponsors with 30+ decided

Approval rate

8.8%ahead of 0.7%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

1152 daysahead of 0.0%

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 123 and 209 filings.

Their median wait
469 days
This one
1,152 days

This one sits 683 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 243 of 70,985 by volume: 242 filed at least as many filings, and 70,742 filed no more.

Just above
athenahealth, Inc. 161 filings
Just below
Government Employees Insurance Company (GEICO) 160 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, Systems Software, 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, Systems Software

SOC 15-1133 · 58 filings, 36% of everything they file · 13.8% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 119 of 161 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

Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals

NAICS 51913 · 119 filings

  • Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services 51821039
  • Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (Census group 518) 5181123
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

  • California 112
  • Washington 22
  • New York 14
  • Texas 10
  • District of Columbia 2
  • Oregon 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 6 states cover 161 of 161 filings.

Where the work is

  • Menlo Park, CA 85
  • New York, NY 14
  • Austin, TX 10
  • Bellevue, WA 10
  • San Francisco, CA 10
  • Fremont, CA 8
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 137 of 161 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Berry Appleman Leiden LLP 120 filings · 7.6% approved
  2. Ogletree Deakins 34 filings · 11.8% approved
  3. Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak Stewart, P.C. 7 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 161 of 161 filings, 100% of the total.

History

Year by year since 2008

10,256 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2024, busiest in FY2023 with 2,046.

  • certified
  • denied
  • withdrawn

Fiscal years, October to September. A year filed under another name is missing, not zero. FY2024 is partial: DOL's newest file runs through June 2026.

Every year as a table
Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn
FY2008 5 0 0
FY2009 3 0 0
FY2010 14 0 0
FY2011 59 2 0
FY2012 80 2 3
FY2013 81 10 4
FY2014 249 0 7
FY2015 389 0 26
FY2016 715 4 9
FY2017 677 2 13
FY2018 1,430 1 12
FY2019 1,466 0 15
FY2020 1,536 0 11
FY2021 214 3 103
FY2022 277 5 622
FY2023 1,510 134 402
FY2024 14 145 2

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 9,161. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-20212-83144 2023-09-28 denied Research Scientist, CA $147,182
A-21274-52876 2023-09-27 certified ASIC Engineer, CA $191,070
A-21288-59286 2023-09-27 certified Test Reliability Engineer - Network Hardware, CA $155,000
A-21266-48857 2023-09-27 certified Digital Design Engineer, CA $150,480
A-21264-47709 2023-09-27 certified Hardware Systems Engineer, CA $192,509
A-21251-41311 2023-09-27 certified Product Specialist, NY $154,440
A-21175-07203 2023-09-27 certified Data Scientist, NY $160,000
A-21288-59059 2023-09-27 certified Technical Quality Specialist, CA $123,000
The other 17
A-21286-58128 2023-09-27 certified Technical Program Manager, CA $165,000
A-21281-56179 2023-09-27 certified Data Engineer, CA $120,931
A-21271-51069 2023-09-27 certified Technical Program Manager, CA $187,210
A-21267-49397 2023-09-27 certified Technical Program Manager, Storage Hardware, CA $165,815
A-21246-39776 2023-09-27 certified Data Engineer, TX $174,000
A-21280-55393 2023-09-27 certified Product Design Prototyper, WA $174,000
A-21278-54240 2023-09-27 certified Software Engineer, CA $180,931
A-21272-51850 2023-09-27 certified Software Engineer, CA $160,931
A-21272-51814 2023-09-27 certified Software Engineer, CA $120,931
A-21272-51580 2023-09-27 certified Software Engineer, CA $120,931
A-21271-51307 2023-09-27 certified Software Engineer, CA $160,931
A-21271-51295 2023-09-27 certified Software Engineer, CA $120,931
A-21271-51289 2023-09-27 certified Software Engineer, CA $156,616
A-21271-51200 2023-09-27 certified Software Engineer, CA $156,616
A-21271-51130 2023-09-27 certified Software Engineer, CA $160,931
A-21271-51016 2023-09-27 certified Software Engineer, CA $160,931
A-21267-49817 2023-09-27 certified Enterprise Systems Engineer, CA $156,955

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

  • China 3,906
  • India 2,939
  • Canada 536
  • Taiwan 174
  • Australia 110
  • Brazil 101

Worker's education

  • Master's 6,066
  • Bachelor's 2,178
  • Doctorate 729
  • None 182
  • Other 6

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 7,292
  • F-1 976
  • L-1 493
  • TN 175
  • E-3 69
  • O-1 61

Schools

  • CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY 546
  • UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 349
  • COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 267
  • UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO 185
  • STANFORD UNIVERSITY 176
  • CORNELL UNIVERSITY 169

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 2,965
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 977
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 534
  • ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING 342
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 254
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING 181

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 entry 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 #243 counts this page's cases only.

5 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 Software Developers, Systems Software, 58 of 161. 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 161 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 243. 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 159 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 CA. 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

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.

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