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PERM sponsor, #98 of 70,985 by filings

Goldman Sachs Services LLC

Goldman Sachs Services LLC sponsors green cards: it filed 225 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 23, 2026. Goldman Sachs Services LLC has 215 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers · 71% of its filings
Main worksite
New York, NY · 37% of its filings
Industry
Investment Banking and Securities Intermediation · NAICS 52315

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Filings

373

#98 of 70,985

Certified

368

1 denied

Approval

99.7%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$143,000

offered, per year

Median days

496

30 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 598 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

215

of 598 tracked cases. The other 383 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed May 28, 2025, 16 months ago.

Where those 215 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
214100%

A Department of Labor analyst has the application. This is the main queue, and it is where most pending PERM cases sit.

RECONSIDERATION APPEALS
1<1%

The employer has asked the same officer who denied the case to look at it again, within 30 days of the denial. The request can only use documents DOL already had, so new evidence can't be added to fix what the denial was based on.

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 598 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 598, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 24, 2026

Follow Goldman Sachs Services LLC

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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.

  • G-100-26296-320534 Associate, Regulatory Compliance filed 2026-10-23 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26294-313600 Associate, Systems Engineering filed 2026-10-21 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26294-313686 VICE PRESIDENT, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING filed 2026-10-21 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26294-314738 VICE PRESIDENT, SYSTEMS ENGINEERING filed 2026-10-21 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26293-311018 VICE PRESIDENT, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING filed 2026-10-20 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26291-307396 Vice President, Project Management filed 2026-10-18 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26290-307023 VICE PRESIDENT, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING filed 2026-10-17 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26290-307137 Vice President, Data Analytics & Reporting filed 2026-10-17 · ANALYST REVIEW

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. Goldman Sachs Services LLC

    median of 11 decisions in the last 90 days

    301 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 32,341 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 79,663 cases, and would be decided around March 21, 2027 (between March 1, 2027 and April 30, 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)
373 published
215 pending
$143,000 median, n=372
Prevailing wage requests
252 published
11 pending
$119,496 median, n=244
H-1B labor condition applications
4,524 published
5 pending
$130,000 median, n=4,517

Its median H-1B wage is $130,000 across 4,517 LCAs, 9.1% lower than its median PERM wage of $143,000 across 372 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.

Of its 215 pending PERM cases, 1 (0.5%) sit outside DOL's normal queue: 1 under appeal. Where that sits among every employer.

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 Goldman Sachs Services LLC, 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: 4,524 LCAs filed by Goldman Sachs Services LLC, 4,492 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

16,959 positions for new employment, 4,008 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 16,959 · 58%
  • Change of employer 7e 4,008 · 14%
  • Continuing 7b 4,786 · 16%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 58 · 1%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 2 · 1%
  • Amended petition 7f 3,557 · 12%

Shares of the 29,263 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 1,061 · 25%
  • Level II 1,457 · 34%
  • Level III 1,244 · 29%
  • Level IV 498 · 12%

Shares of the 4,260 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; 232 of 4,492 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 23, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 4,275 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 4,518. 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 4,518 · E-3 (Australia) 3 · H-1B1 (Chile) 1 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 2. 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

    99.7% of 369 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 32% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    225 filed in the last 12 months

    At the top of the 14,055 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    1,197 certified in the last 24 months

    At the top of the 27,849 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    13% of 23,971 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 46% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    48% of 1,196 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 63% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    97.7% of 1,208 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 39% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

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

Approval rate

99.7%ahead of 32%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

496 daysahead of 8%

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 236 and 821 filings.

Their median wait
462 days
This one
496 days

This one sits 34 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 98 of 70,985 by volume: 97 filed at least as many filings, and 70,887 filed no more.

Just above
SAVANNAH CHATHAM COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM 375 filings
Just below
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 370 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 · 265 filings, 71% of everything they file · 100.0% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 330 of 373 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

Investment Banking and Securities Intermediation

NAICS 52315 · 310 filings

  • Investment Banking and Securities Dealing 523110, 5231163
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

  • New York 137
  • Texas 121
  • Utah 86
  • New Jersey 25
  • Illinois 4
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 5 states cover 373 of 373 filings.

Where the work is

  • New York, NY 137
  • Dallas, TX 117
  • Salt Lake City, UT 86
  • Jersey City, NJ 25
  • Chicago, IL 4
  • Richardson, TX 3
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 372 of 373 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP 373 filings · 99.7% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 373 of 373 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The New York Times

    134 cases

  2. The Dallas Morning News

    118 cases

  3. The Salt Lake Tribune

    80 cases

  4. The Star-Ledger

    23 cases

  5. Chicago Tribune

    4 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. Employee referral programs

    359 cases

  2. The employer's website

    359 cases

  3. Job search websites

    359 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

    0.3%

  3. 60 to 89 days

    35%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    50%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    13%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    1.4%

  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 2014

948 PERM decisions from FY2014 to FY2026, busiest in FY2025 with 206.

  • 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
FY2014 12 0 0
FY2015 41 0 2
FY2016 20 0 0
FY2017 28 0 2
FY2018 58 0 0
FY2019 91 0 1
FY2020 51 0 0
FY2021 34 0 2
FY2022 91 0 1
FY2023 140 0 1
FY2024 14 0 3
FY2025 204 1 1
FY2026 150 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 520. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22189-85059 2023-09-27 certified Vice President, UT $105,000
A-22182-82340 2023-09-27 certified Vice President, UT $168,334
A-22174-77260 2023-09-21 certified Vice President, UT $131,000
A-22186-83039 2023-09-21 certified Associate, NJ $157,477
A-22139-57516 2023-09-21 certified Associate, NY $157,477
A-22188-84348 2023-09-21 certified Vice President, TX $137,987
A-22186-83001 2023-09-21 certified Vice President, UT $132,184
A-22245-16062 2023-09-13 certified Associate, NY $157,477
The other 17
A-22245-16001 2023-09-13 certified Vice President, TX $134,992
A-22186-83036 2023-09-13 certified Associate, NJ $157,477
A-22186-82948 2023-09-13 certified Vice President, NJ $157,477
A-22174-76869 2023-09-13 certified Associate, TX $140,000
A-22168-73761 2023-09-13 certified Associate, NJ $157,477
A-22167-72942 2023-09-13 certified Vice President, UT $132,184
A-22137-56743 2023-09-13 certified Associate, NY $157,477
A-22136-56015 2023-09-13 certified Vice President, NY $157,477
A-22138-56786 2023-09-13 certified Vice President, NY $164,000
A-22168-73641 2023-09-11 certified Vice President, UT $168,334
A-22172-75326 2023-09-06 certified Vice President, UT $132,184
A-22287-39941 2023-09-01 certified Vice President, TX $135,000
A-22277-33394 2023-08-23 certified Vice President, NJ $157,477
A-22186-83038 2023-08-23 certified Vice President, NJ $157,477
A-22181-81395 2023-08-23 certified Vice President, TX $134,992
A-22175-77761 2023-08-23 certified Vice President, NJ $157,477
A-22168-73748 2023-08-23 certified Associate, UT $132,184

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 384
  • China 48
  • Nigeria 13
  • United Kingdom 11
  • Canada 9
  • Mexico 6

Worker's education

  • Master's 291
  • Bachelor's 210
  • Other 17
  • Doctorate 2

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 485
  • L-1 32
  • NOT IN USA 2
  • PAROLEE 1

Schools

  • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 24
  • ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 10
  • STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO 10
  • ANNA UNIVERSITY 9
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS 9
  • UTTAR PRADESH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY 9

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 149
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 65
  • ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 44
  • INFORMATION SYSTEMS 21
  • INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 19
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 17

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 5 entries 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 #98 counts this page's cases only.

764 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, 265 of 373. 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 373 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 98. 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 369 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 NY. 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 24, 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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