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PERM sponsor, #1,735 of 70,985 by filings

Kohler Company

Kohler Company sponsors green cards: it filed 7 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on June 15, 2026. Kohler Company has 3 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers · 16% of its filings
Main worksite
Kohler, WI · 84% of its filings
Industry
Pottery, Ceramics, and Plumbing Fixture Manufacturing · NAICS 32711

Waiting on a case with Kohler Company?

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

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Too few cases for a rate

24 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

25

#1,735 of 70,985

Certified

24

0 denied

Approval

Not shown

withheld: 24 decided

Median wage

$101,150

offered, per year

Median days

480

14 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 28 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

3

of 28 tracked cases. The other 25 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed January 28, 2026, 8 months ago.

Where those 3 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
3100%

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 28 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 28, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 23, 2026

Follow Kohler Company

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.

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.

Layoff notices filed by Kohler Company

Notices of a mass layoff or closing filed with the state under the WARN Act, as the state printed them, matched to this sponsor by name. What a layoff means for a PERM.

  • April 16, 2024, 93 employees, Brown, effective June 14, 2024. Texas WARN report Brownwood
  • April 8, 2019, 223 employees, Brown, effective June 10, 2019. Texas WARN report Brownwood

How long it takes

How long their cases are taking

  1. Every employer

    median of 32,219 decisions in the same 90 days

    301 days

Only 3 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 79,592 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, and its seasonal H-2A, H-2B and CW-1 work, one line each.

PERM (green card)
25 published
3 pending
$101,150 median, n=25
Prevailing wage requests
59 published
0 pending
$100,776 median, n=58
H-1B labor condition applications
302 published
0 pending
$96,300 median, n=302
H-2A, H-2B and CW-1 (seasonal work)
11 published
6 pending
$18.00 an hour, median, n=11

Its median H-1B wage is $96,300 across 302 LCAs, 4.8% lower than its median PERM wage of $101,150 across 25 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. Seasonal wages stay hourly, as DOL's H-2A, H-2B and CW-1 files quote them: a job lasting a season, annualised over a full year, would describe pay nobody earns. DOL certified 112 workers across these filings.

Its newest wage requests and LCAs

Filed by Kohler Company, newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.

Wage requests

  • P-100-26163-009548 Manufacturing Engineer II 2026-06-12 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-26146-947810 Senior Demand Planner 2026-05-26 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-26083-725900 Materials Control Manager - AFO $148,678 per year 2026-03-24 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-26044-639716 Manufacturing Engineer II $102,627 per year 2026-02-13 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-26015-562775 Manager - Retail Design Studio $101,712 per year 2026-01-15 · 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: 302 LCAs filed by Kohler Company, 285 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

105 positions for new employment, 44 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 105 · 37%
  • Change of employer 7e 44 · 15%
  • Continuing 7b 89 · 31%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 14 · 5%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 34 · 12%

Shares of the 285 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 17 · 6%
  • Level II 71 · 26%
  • Level III 65 · 24%
  • Level IV 121 · 44%

Shares of the 274 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; 11 of 285 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 15, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 289 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 302. 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

Seasonal work: H-2A, H-2B and CW-1

Filed by Kohler Company, as DOL's case-status service shows them.

All H-2A, H-2B and CW-1 filings by this employer

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 filings in the last 12 months

    7 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 86% of the 14,051 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    57 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 94% of the 27,861 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    11% of 64 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 41% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    70% of 60 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

    100.0% of 83 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 80% 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

480 daysmiddle of 24 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 24 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 between 24 and 26 filings.

Their median wait
462 days
This one
480 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 1,735 of 70,985 by volume: 1,734 filed at least as many filings, and 69,250 filed no more.

Just above
Astute Solutions LLC 25 filings
Just below
Sensata Technologies, Inc. 25 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 · 4 filings, 16% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 16 of 25 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

Pottery, Ceramics, and Plumbing Fixture Manufacturing

NAICS 32711 · 20 filings

  • Pottery, Ceramics, and Plumbing Fixture Manufacturing (Census group 32711) 3271115
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

  • Wisconsin 24
  • Tennessee 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 2 states cover 25 of 25 filings.

Where the work is

  • Kohler, WI 21
  • Sheboygan, WI 3
  • Union City, TN 1
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 3 cities cover 25 of 25 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Berry Appleman & Leiden LLP 25 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 25 of 25 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

    19 cases

  2. Jackson Sun

    1 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. Campus placement offices

    20 cases

  2. The employer's website

    20 cases

  3. Local or ethnic newspapers

    20 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

    15%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    35%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    10%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    40%

  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 2009

126 PERM decisions from FY2009 to FY2026, busiest in FY2018 with 14.

  • 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
FY2009 6 0 0
FY2010 5 1 0
FY2011 6 0 0
FY2012 6 0 0
FY2013 1 0 0
FY2014 7 0 0
FY2015 3 0 0
FY2016 9 0 0
FY2017 6 0 0
FY2018 14 0 0
FY2019 4 0 1
FY2020 5 0 0
FY2021 3 0 0
FY2022 9 0 2
FY2023 12 0 1
FY2024 5 0 0
FY2025 11 0 0
FY2026 8 0 1

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 66. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22255-20004 2023-09-06 certified Sr. Developer, Digital Analytics, IL $125,445
A-22256-20604 2023-08-25 certified Senior Project Engineer- Quality, WI $53,539
A-22223-04531 2023-08-24 certified Senior Developer-Digital Experience, WI $97,718
A-22098-38396 2023-08-10 certified Staff Analyst – Tooling, AL $86,216
A-22098-38400 2023-08-10 certified Manager – Manufacturing Engineering, Coatings and Waste-Water Treatment (WWT), WI $126,173
A-22242-14278 2023-07-21 certified Sr. Project Quality Engineer, WI $85,634
A-22168-74069 2023-06-06 certified Staff Project Leader – OEM, WI $90,355
A-22131-53568 2023-04-06 certified Director - IT, Data & Analytics, WI $166,275
The other 17
A-22055-15723 2023-03-30 certified Systems Architect - Production Planning, WI $97,718
A-22313-54502 2023-02-06 withdrawn Senior Industrial Designer, WI $72,322
A-22070-24184 2023-01-09 certified Manager – International Customer Service, Western Hemisphere, WI $107,515
A-22046-12027 2022-12-07 certified Project Engineer, AR $111,800
A-22028-04321 2022-11-15 certified Staff Engineer, WI $88,317
A-22098-38426 2022-08-29 withdrawn Architect-Salesforce Release Manager, WI $102,440
A-21313-70518 2022-08-22 certified Industrial Designer, WI $41,662
A-21341-82876 2022-08-09 certified Project Engineer - Automation, GV, WI $77,002
A-21251-41185 2022-04-27 certified Global Vitreous Capital Project Engineer, WI $63,773
A-21253-42708 2022-04-27 certified Sr. Project Engineer-Finishes, WI $100,901
A-21256-43474 2022-04-04 certified SAP Systems Architect, WI $94,806
A-21217-27624 2022-03-21 certified Manager - IT Enterprise Architecture Office, WI $162,718
A-21200-19370 2022-03-15 certified Senior Staff Engineer, Manufacturing Engineering, Plastics Bathing, WI $84,510
A-21299-63677 2022-03-09 withdrawn Channel Manager- Analytics & Lead Generation, WI $146,723
A-21231-33996 2022-02-09 certified Sales Manager, Engineered Solutions, WI $110,739
A-21145-91795 2021-11-22 certified Sr Systems Architect-Digital Development, WI $81,453
A-21048-53087 2021-08-04 certified Staff Engineer - Assembly & Automation, WI $106,454

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 47
  • Mexico 5
  • Brazil 4
  • China 3
  • Bangladesh 1
  • Canada 1

Worker's education

  • Master's 42
  • Bachelor's 22
  • Doctorate 1
  • Other 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 59
  • L-1 6
  • TN 1

Schools

  • MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 5
  • BRADLEY UNIVERSITY 3
  • AUBURN UNIVERSITY 2
  • BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE 2
  • CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY 2
  • IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY 2

Fields of study

  • MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 18
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 4
  • INFORMATION SYSTEMS 4
  • ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING 3
  • CHEMICAL ENGINEERING 2
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 2

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 #1,735 counts this page's cases only.

1 filing 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, 4 of 25. 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 25 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 1,735. 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 24 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 WI. 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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