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IBM Corporation

IBM Corporation sponsors green cards: it filed 177 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 9, 2026. IBM Corporation has 93 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers · 34% of its filings
Main worksite
Armonk, NY · 76% of its filings
Industry
Computer Systems Design and Related Services · NAICS 54151

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Filings

853

#36 of 70,985

Certified

845

2 denied

Approval

99.8%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$154,482

offered, per year

Median days

455

11 faster 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 719 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

93

of 719 tracked cases. The other 626 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed January 12, 2026, 9 months ago.

Where those 93 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
93100%

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 719 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 719, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 21, 2026

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What DOL has done to its cases as a group

  1. October 21 DOL certified 14 of its cases
  2. September 1 DOL certified 11 of its cases
  3. August 30 DOL certified 18 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. IBM Corporation

    median of 87 decisions in the last 90 days

    296 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 30,678 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 80,135 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)
853 published
93 pending
$154,482 median, n=851
Prevailing wage requests
501 published
30 pending
$112,944 median, n=497
H-1B labor condition applications
14,920 published
17 pending
$103,730 median, n=14,912

Its median H-1B wage is $103,730 across 14,912 LCAs, 32.9% lower than its median PERM wage of $154,482 across 851 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 3 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 IBM Corporation, 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: 14,920 LCAs filed by IBM Corporation, 13,833 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

7,585 positions for new employment, 899 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 7,585 · 55%
  • Change of employer 7e 899 · 6%
  • Continuing 7b 992 · 7%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 789 · 6%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 2 · 1%
  • Amended petition 7f 3,575 · 26%

Shares of the 13,833 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 0 · 0%
  • Level II 5,874 · 42%
  • Level III 5,575 · 40%
  • Level IV 2,374 · 17%

Shares of the 13,823 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; 10 of 13,833 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 24, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 13,879 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 14,875. 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 14,872 · E-3 (Australia) 31 · H-1B1 (Chile) 4 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 13. 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

    99.8% of 847 decided PERM cases

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

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    177 filed in the last 12 months

    At the top of the 14,008 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    2,998 certified in the last 24 months

    At the top of the 27,902 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    3.8% of 3,696 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 15% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    69% of 3,696 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

    98.8% of 6,259 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 52% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

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

Approval rate

99.8%ahead of 32%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

455 daysahead of 62%

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 95 sponsors ranked nearest filed between 375 and 6,875 filings.

Their median wait
461 days
This one
455 days

This one sits 6 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 36 of 70,985 by volume: 35 filed at least as many filings, and 70,949 filed no more.

Just above
Akash Management LLC 859 filings
Just below
Citibank, N.A. 825 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 · 286 filings, 34% of everything they file · 100.0% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 605 of 853 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

Computer Systems Design and Related Services

NAICS 54151, 5415 · 853 filings

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 692
  • California 61
  • Texas 49
  • North Carolina 22
  • Massachusetts 12
  • Georgia 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. These 6 states cover 839 of 853 filings.

Where the work is

  • Armonk, NY 652
  • San Jose, CA 56
  • Austin, TX 34
  • Durham, NC 17
  • Yorktown Heights, NY 15
  • New York, NY 14
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 788 of 853 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen, & Loewy, LLP 852 filings · 99.8% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 852 of 853 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The New York Times

    383 cases

  2. The Mercury News

    35 cases

  3. Austin American-Statesman

    19 cases

  4. The News & Observer

    15 cases

  5. The Dallas Morning News

    10 cases

  6. Boston Sunday Globe

    5 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

    491 cases

  2. Job search websites

    491 cases

  3. Local or ethnic newspapers

    491 cases

  4. Radio or TV ads

    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

    0.0%

  3. 60 to 89 days

    0.4%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    2.0%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    6.9%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    91%

  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

4,746 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2023 with 531.

  • 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 84 10 0
FY2009 91 4 6
FY2010 246 7 5
FY2011 180 15 8
FY2012 101 37 2
FY2013 131 38 0
FY2014 193 17 6
FY2015 219 37 4
FY2016 251 11 3
FY2017 213 20 1
FY2018 232 56 5
FY2019 213 2 3
FY2020 172 2 7
FY2021 242 0 0
FY2022 481 1 6
FY2023 526 3 2
FY2024 366 1 5
FY2025 303 0 1
FY2026 176 1 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 2,452. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22286-38576 2023-09-28 certified Offering Manager, NC $115,918
A-21309-68522 2023-09-28 denied Technical Resolution Specialist, NC $69,555
A-22263-24866 2023-09-28 certified Memory Software Development Engineer, TX $72,384
A-22312-53565 2023-09-28 certified Senior Product Manager, NY $237,016
A-22301-47706 2023-09-28 certified Senior Product Manager, NY $237,016
A-22293-42802 2023-09-25 certified Cognitive Engineer Consultant, NY $118,893
A-22311-52829 2023-09-22 certified Test Specialist, LA $41,018
A-22273-31274 2023-09-22 certified Cognitive Engineer Consultant, NY $118,893
The other 17
A-22271-29361 2023-09-22 certified Cognitive Engineer Consultant, NY $118,893
A-22290-40255 2023-09-22 certified Package Solution Consultant, NY $136,427
A-22244-15357 2023-09-22 certified Business Advisor, NY $70,616
A-22290-40393 2023-09-22 certified Senior Product Manager, NY $237,016
A-22231-08576 2023-09-14 certified Delivery Project Executive, NY $69,826
A-22245-16418 2023-09-14 certified Application Architect, NY $145,454
A-22291-41328 2023-09-06 certified Advisory Software Engineer, TX $127,504
A-22287-39337 2023-08-31 certified Application Consultant, NY $79,914
A-22238-12455 2023-08-29 certified Senior Software Architect, TX $50,565
A-22221-02420 2023-08-29 certified Senior Software Developer, CA $168,834
A-22250-17494 2023-08-29 certified IT Specialist, NY $145,454
A-22214-98399 2023-08-29 certified Systems Engineering Professional, NY $136,427
A-22271-29419 2023-08-28 certified Technical Project Manager, NY $118,893
A-22252-18982 2023-08-28 certified Technical Project Manager, NY $118,893
A-22237-11656 2023-08-28 certified Technical Project Manager, NY $118,893
A-22230-07989 2023-08-28 certified Technical Project Manager, NY $118,893
A-22217-00794 2023-08-28 certified Technical Project Manager, NY $118,893

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 1,969
  • China 115
  • Canada 70
  • Brazil 46
  • United Kingdom 19
  • Germany 18

Worker's education

  • Bachelor's 1,327
  • Master's 951
  • Other 134
  • Doctorate 30
  • Associate's 7
  • High School 2

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 2,098
  • L-1 293
  • NOT IN USA 27
  • F-1 4
  • O-1 4
  • H-4 3

Schools

  • JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 91
  • ANNA UNIVERSITY 74
  • VISVESWARAIAH TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, BELGAUM 57
  • OSMANIA UNIVERSITY 56
  • UNIVERSITY OF PUNE 54
  • UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS 44

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 451
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 296
  • ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 290
  • APPLIED COMPUTER SCIENCE 202
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 156
  • INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 104

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, 286 of 853. 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 853 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 36. 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 847 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 21, 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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