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PERM sponsor, #15,537 of 70,985 by filings

Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc.

Main job
Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers · 33% of its filings
Main worksite
Boston, MA · 100% of its filings
Industry
Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology) · NAICS 541714

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Too few cases for a rate

3 decided filings: too few for an approval rate.

Why

Across every PERM case DOL decided in this window, 3.20% were denied. At that rate a file this size comes back clean most of the time whatever the sponsor did, so a percentage would be a fact about how few cases there are. Telling a clean record apart from the field takes about 117 decided cases.

Filings

3

#15,537 of 70,985

Certified

3

0 denied

Approval

Not shown

withheld: 3 decided

Median wage

$130,000

offered, per year

Median days

477

middle of 3 decided

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 2 cases in the live tracker

Nothing for this sponsor is waiting on a decision. All 2 of their cases in the live tracker are closed.

All 2 of this sponsor's cases in DOL's live status are decided: nothing of theirs is in the queue. Live case tracker, as of October 23, 2026

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What DOL has done to its cases as a group

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How long it takes

How long their cases are taking

  1. Every employer

    median of 31,712 decisions in the same 90 days

    301 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 79,711 cases, and would be decided around March 20, 2027 (between February 28, 2027 and April 29, 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)
3 published
0 pending
3 wages, under the floor
Prevailing wage requests
5 published
0 pending
4 wages, under the floor
H-1B labor condition applications
144 published
0 pending
$110,000 median, n=144

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 Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc., newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.

Wage requests

  • P-100-24248-313817 Senior Director, Creative and Marketing 2024-09-04 · WITHDRAWN
  • P-100-24016-643505 Senior UX Designer 1 $126,776 per year 2024-01-16 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-23338-541478 Organism Engineer 2 $71,490 per year 2023-12-04 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-23325-517560 Bioinformatics Engineer $101,816 per year 2023-11-21 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-23324-514815 Senior Software Engineering Manager $208,520 per year 2023-11-20 · DETERMINATION ISSUED

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: 144 LCAs filed by Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc., 139 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

67 positions for new employment, 22 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 67 · 48%
  • Change of employer 7e 22 · 16%
  • Continuing 7b 25 · 18%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 3 · 2%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 22 · 16%

Shares of the 139 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 32 · 23%
  • Level II 39 · 28%
  • Level III 37 · 27%
  • Level IV 29 · 21%

Shares of the 137 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 139 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 10, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 124 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 144. 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

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.

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

    18 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 81% of the 27,861 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    5.0% of 20 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

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

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

    70% of 20 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 84% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    91.2% of 57 USCIS decisions

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

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

Approval rate

not shownunder 30 decided

0% 100%

Median days to decision

477 daysmiddle of 3 decided, too few to rank

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. This sponsor has 3 decided cases, so its median days is marked but left unranked, and no approval rate is drawn at all.
DOL PERM disclosure files

Against the sponsors ranked nearest

The 120 sponsors ranked nearest filed 3 filings each.

Their median wait
463 days
This one
477 days

This one sits 14 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 15,537 of 70,985 by volume: 15,536 filed at least as many filings, and 55,448 filed no more.

Just above
Ghost Autonomy Inc. 3 filings
Just below
CUPERTINO ELECTRIC INC. 3 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 Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers, 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

Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers

SOC 17-2031.00 · 1 filings, 33% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 3 occupations with the most filings, 3 of 3 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

Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology)

NAICS 541714 · 2 filings

  • Scientific Research and Development Services 54171
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

  • Massachusetts 3
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. This state covers 3 of 3 filings.

Where the work is

  • Boston, MA 3
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. This city covers 3 of 3 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Berry Appleman and Leiden LLP 3 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 3 of 3 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. Boston Sunday Globe

    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. The employer's website

    2 cases

  2. Job search websites

    2 cases

  3. Local or ethnic newspapers

    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

    0.0%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    100%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    0.0%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    0.0%

  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 2018

12 PERM decisions from FY2018 to FY2025, busiest in FY2018 with 3.

  • certified
  • denied
  • withdrawn

Fiscal years, October to September. A year filed under another name is missing, not zero. FY2025 is partial: DOL's newest file runs through June 2026.

Every year as a table
Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn
FY2018 3 0 0
FY2019 0 0 0
FY2020 0 0 0
FY2021 1 0 0
FY2022 2 0 1
FY2023 1 0 1
FY2024 1 0 0
FY2025 2 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

All 9. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-21362-91391 2022-10-31 certified Mammalian Cell Engineer, MA $85,000
A-22164-70604 2022-10-25 withdrawn Senior Fermentation Engineer, MA $125,000
A-21347-85580 2022-06-07 withdrawn Senior Mammalian Cell Engineer, MA $110,000
A-21196-17887 2022-03-21 certified Manager, Commercial Operations and Strategy, MA $150,000
A-21068-59827 2021-10-22 certified Software Solution Engineer, MA $115,000
A-20239-92239 2021-08-05 certified Organism Engineer, MA $100,000
A-18123-70982 2018-08-16 certified Senior Software Engineer, MA $140,000
A-18109-65503 2018-08-02 certified Strain Engineer, MA $76,600
The other 1
A-18096-60102 2018-07-31 certified Strain Engineer, MA $76,600

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 Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers, 1 of 3. 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 3 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 15,537. 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 3 decided cases
That’s a middle of a handful, and it moves entirely with which months those few cases were filed in.
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 MA. 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 23, 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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