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PERM sponsor, #375 of 70,985 by filings

Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc.

Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 44 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 21, 2026. Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc. has 61 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Civil Engineers · 38% of its filings
Main worksite
Atlanta, GA · 11% of its filings
Industry
Nonresidential Building Construction · NAICS 2362

Waiting on a case with Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc.?

  • When it'll likely be decided
  • An email when DOL moves it

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This rate is level with the field

Over 93 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 7.5% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

98

#375 of 70,985

Certified

91

2 denied

Approval

97.8%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$96,408

offered, per year

Median days

482

16 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 180 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

61

of 180 tracked cases. The other 119 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed September 13, 2024, 25 months ago.

Where those 61 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
4269%

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

BALCA APPEALS
1423%

The case is with the Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals, a panel of DOL administrative law judges. They review the record the officer already had, so it's legal argument rather than a fresh chance to put in evidence.

RECONSIDERATION APPEALS
58%

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 180 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 180, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 22, 2026

Follow Jacobs Engineering Group, 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.

  • G-100-26294-312959 Senior Project Manager - Senior Biosolids Technologist filed 2026-10-21 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26294-313010 Electrical Engineering Professional Associate filed 2026-10-21 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26294-315482 Architectural Professional Associate Level filed 2026-10-21 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26290-307154 Civil Engineering Professional Intermediate Level filed 2026-10-17 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26290-307172 Construction Management Professional Intermediate filed 2026-10-17 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26287-298809 Construction Management Professional Intermediate filed 2026-10-14 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26278-279664 Fire Protection Engineer filed 2026-10-05 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26272-268496 Design Architecture Professional Intermediate filed 2026-09-29 · 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. Every employer

    median of 31,092 decisions in the same 90 days

    301 days

Only 2 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 79,915 cases, and would be decided around March 19, 2027 (between February 27, 2027 and April 28, 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)
98 published
61 pending
$96,408 median, n=98
Prevailing wage requests
233 published
28 pending
$104,541 median, n=231
H-1B labor condition applications
930 published
1 pending
$92,201 median, n=929

Its median H-1B wage is $92,201 across 929 LCAs, 4.4% lower than its median PERM wage of $96,408 across 98 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 61 pending PERM cases, 19 (31%) sit outside DOL's normal queue: 19 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 Jacobs Engineering Group, 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: 930 LCAs filed by Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc., 901 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

411 positions for new employment, 157 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 411 · 46%
  • Change of employer 7e 157 · 17%
  • Continuing 7b 103 · 11%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 163 · 18%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 67 · 7%

Shares of the 901 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 352 · 41%
  • Level II 260 · 30%
  • Level III 108 · 13%
  • Level IV 142 · 16%

Shares of the 862 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; 39 of 901 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 820 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 861. 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 857 · E-3 (Australia) 67 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 6. 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

    97.9% of 93 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 18% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    44 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 98% of the 14,017 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    370 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 99% of the 27,873 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    12% of 399 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 44% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    31% of 396 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 49% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    99.1% of 322 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 56% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

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

Approval rate

97.8%ahead of 18%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

482 daysahead of 25%

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 83 and 117 filings.

Their median wait
464 days
This one
482 days

This one sits 18 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 375 of 70,985 by volume: 374 filed at least as many filings, and 70,610 filed no more.

Just above
Saylor Management Group, Inc. 99 filings
Just below
Motorola Solutions, Inc. 98 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 Civil 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

Civil Engineers

SOC 17-2051.00 · 37 filings, 38% of everything they file · 97.3% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 74 of 98 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

Nonresidential Building Construction

NAICS 2362 · 67 filings

  • Commercial and Institutional Building Construction 2362230
  • Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction 2379901
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

  • Texas 24
  • California 11
  • Georgia 11
  • Florida 7
  • Oregon 7
  • Ohio 6
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 66 of 98 filings.

Where the work is

  • Atlanta, GA 11
  • Houston, TX 10
  • Austin, TX 6
  • Portland, OR 6
  • San Francisco, CA 6
  • Cincinnati, OH 4
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 43 of 98 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP 97 filings · 97.8% approved
  2. Berry Appleman & Leiden LLP 1 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 98 of 98 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. Houston Chronicle

    10 cases

  2. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

    9 cases

  3. San Francisco Chronicle

    6 cases

  4. Austin American-Statesman

    5 cases

  5. Fort Worth Star-Telegram

    4 cases

  6. The Oregonian

    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. Job search websites

    90 cases

  2. Local or ethnic newspapers

    90 cases

  3. The employer's website

    63 cases

  4. Radio or TV ads

    29 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

    26%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    33%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    36%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    4.4%

  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 2012

260 PERM decisions from FY2012 to FY2026, busiest in FY2026 with 51.

  • 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
FY2012 16 0 0
FY2013 13 1 0
FY2014 19 0 0
FY2015 12 0 0
FY2016 10 1 0
FY2017 7 0 1
FY2018 23 0 0
FY2019 9 0 0
FY2020 5 0 1
FY2021 17 0 4
FY2022 15 0 0
FY2023 8 0 0
FY2024 11 0 3
FY2025 33 0 0
FY2026 47 2 2

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 101. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22229-07092 2023-09-25 certified Urban Planner, GA $61,610
A-22248-16617 2023-08-02 certified Mechanical Engineering Professional Senior, WI $141,279
A-22171-74685 2023-04-21 certified Water Engineer/Project Manager, CA $121,398
A-22174-76913 2023-04-21 certified Electrical Engineer, OR $81,411
A-22034-06762 2023-01-18 certified Electrical Engineering Professional Intermediate, TX $89,586
A-22062-18585 2023-01-12 certified Traffic Engineer, NV $96,658
A-22090-33539 2023-01-11 certified Process Engineering Professional Associate, PA $119,350
A-22032-05709 2022-11-15 certified Project Geotechnical Engineer, CA $140,650
The other 17
A-21322-74856 2022-08-30 certified Project Manager, TX $116,974
A-21322-74889 2022-08-16 certified Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Engineer, FL $93,600
A-21291-59601 2022-08-15 certified PROGRAMMING PROFESSIONAL SENIOR, CO $131,685
A-21312-69383 2022-07-07 certified Resident Engineer, NY $165,000
A-21267-49332 2022-05-16 certified Civil Engineering Professional Entry Level, GA $69,826
A-21214-25593 2022-04-27 certified Civil Engineering Professional Intermediate, TX $78,280
A-21267-49280 2022-04-26 certified Process Engineering Lead, SC $135,000
A-21267-49318 2022-04-13 certified Process Engineering Professional Intermediate, FL $74,825
A-21235-34609 2022-04-13 certified Traffic Engineer, GA $66,503
A-21210-24032 2022-03-10 certified Architectural Professional Intermediate Level, CA $85,160
A-21111-76472 2021-12-10 certified Sr. Instrumentation Controls Engineer, FL $114,720
A-21181-10449 2021-12-08 certified Design Architecture 1, PA $61,898
A-21114-77972 2021-11-05 certified Transportation Planner, VA $68,250
A-21055-55162 2021-11-01 certified Project Architecture Professional Career Level, TX $165,375
A-21078-64286 2021-10-06 certified Electrical Engineering, Professional Associate, TX $128,731
A-20303-14650 2021-09-29 certified DESIGN ARCHITECTURE 1, PA $61,574
A-21078-64249 2021-09-14 certified Mechanical Engineer, TX $80,000

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 48
  • Canada 10
  • China 7
  • United Kingdom 6
  • South Korea 4
  • Australia 3

Worker's education

  • Master's 72
  • Bachelor's 28
  • Doctorate 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 74
  • L-1 17
  • TN 5
  • F-1 3
  • E-3 1
  • NOT IN USA 1

Schools

  • UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA 7
  • LAMAR UNIVERSITY 6
  • CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY 3
  • GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 3
  • ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 3
  • UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY 3

Fields of study

  • CIVIL ENGINEERING 24
  • CHEMICAL ENGINEERING 18
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 8
  • ARCHITECTURE 6
  • MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 6
  • CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING 4

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 8 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 #375 counts this page's cases only.

36 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 Civil Engineers, 37 of 98. 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 98 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 375. 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 93 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 TX. 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 22, 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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