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PERM sponsor, #78 of 70,985 by filings

Optum Services, Inc.

Optum Services, Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 34 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on September 4, 2026. Optum Services, Inc. has 20 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers · 58% of its filings
Main worksite
Eden Prairie, MN · 81% of its filings
Industry
Computer Systems Design Services · NAICS 541512

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Filings

448

#78 of 70,985

Certified

442

2 denied

Approval

99.5%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$120,450

offered, per year

Median days

468

2 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 324 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

20

of 324 tracked cases. The other 304 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed January 30, 2026, 8 months ago.

Where those 20 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
20100%

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 324 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 324, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 19, 2026

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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-100-26247-218715 Senior AI/ML Engineer filed 2026-09-04 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26196-100989 Architect (20012.4002.7) filed 2026-07-15 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26159-994096 Lead AI/ML Engineer filed 2026-06-08 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26159-993934 Senior Manager, Software Engineering filed 2026-06-08 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26154-979205 Associate Director Actuarial Services (20012.6270) filed 2026-06-03 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26154-979122 Principal SDET Automation Engineer (Cloud)– Pharmacy Network filed 2026-06-03 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26154-977342 Senior Manager, Software Engineering (20012.4715.7) filed 2026-06-03 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26141-937215 Director of Card Capabilities (20012.1138) filed 2026-05-21 · 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. Optum Services, Inc.

    median of 17 decisions in the last 90 days

    299 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 28,615 decisions in the same 90 days

    302 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 81,062 cases, and would be decided around March 16, 2027 (between February 24, 2027 and April 25, 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)
448 published
20 pending
$120,450 median, n=447
Prevailing wage requests
434 published
29 pending
$106,579 median, n=433
H-1B labor condition applications
4,095 published
10 pending
$118,102 median, n=4,085

Its median H-1B wage ($118,102 across 4,085 LCAs) and its median PERM wage ($120,450 across 447 cases) are within 2% of each other.

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.

Its newest wage requests and LCAs

Filed by Optum Services, 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: 4,095 LCAs filed by Optum Services, Inc., 4,005 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

433 positions for new employment, 804 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 433 · 11%
  • Change of employer 7e 804 · 20%
  • Continuing 7b 2,323 · 58%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 8 · 1%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 1 · 1%
  • Amended petition 7f 438 · 11%

Shares of the 4,005 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 69 · 2%
  • Level II 920 · 26%
  • Level III 1,418 · 40%
  • Level IV 1,133 · 32%

Shares of the 3,540 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; 465 of 4,005 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 3,778 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 4,065. 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 4,060 · E-3 (Australia) 29 · H-1B1 (Chile) 1 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 5. 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

    99.6% of 444 decided PERM cases

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

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    34 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 98% of the 13,946 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    950 certified in the last 24 months

    At the top of the 27,903 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    5.7% of 1,128 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 22% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    70% of 888 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

    98.9% of 1,321 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 54% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

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

Approval rate

99.5%ahead of 30%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

468 daysahead of 46%

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 269 and 1,527 filings.

Their median wait
461 days
This one
468 days

This one sits 7 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 78 of 70,985 by volume: 77 filed at least as many filings, and 70,907 filed no more.

Just above
Mphasis Corporation 451 filings
Just below
TikTok Inc. 446 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 · 261 filings, 58% of everything they file · 99.6% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 370 of 448 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 Services

NAICS 541512 · 437 filings

  • Direct Health and Medical Insurance Carriers 5241146
  • Computer Systems Design and Related Services 541515
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

  • Minnesota 374
  • Georgia 21
  • Texas 10
  • California 7
  • Connecticut 6
  • North Carolina 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 424 of 448 filings.

Where the work is

  • Eden Prairie, MN 364
  • Alpharetta, GA 21
  • Basking Ridge, NJ 6
  • Hartford, CT 6
  • Minnetonka, MN 5
  • Raleigh, NC 5
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 407 of 448 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Berry Appleman & Leiden LLP 448 filings · 99.5% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 448 of 448 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. Star Tribune

    224 cases

  2. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

    21 cases

  3. The Minnesota Star Tribune

    5 cases

  4. The Star-Ledger

    5 cases

  5. Hartford Courant

    4 cases

  6. Austin American-Statesman

    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. Job search websites

    279 cases

  2. Local or ethnic newspapers

    274 cases

  3. Trade or professional organizations

    146 cases

  4. The employer's website

    139 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

    0.4%

  3. 60 to 89 days

    9.7%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    18%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    20%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    51%

  7. Over 180 days

    0.4%
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

1,245 PERM decisions from FY2014 to FY2026, busiest in FY2025 with 181.

  • 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 5 0 2
FY2015 16 0 6
FY2016 86 0 3
FY2017 38 0 1
FY2018 65 0 1
FY2019 101 0 0
FY2020 91 1 0
FY2021 60 0 0
FY2022 147 0 0
FY2023 171 1 2
FY2024 170 0 3
FY2025 180 0 1
FY2026 92 2 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 768. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22286-38807 2023-09-27 certified Data Engineer, MN $130,998
A-22287-39760 2023-09-27 certified Principal Data Engineer, NJ $163,758
A-22305-49812 2023-09-22 certified Software Engineer, MN $99,999
A-22234-09775 2023-09-21 certified Data Engineer, MN $152,189
A-22237-11950 2023-09-20 certified Healthcare Economics Consultant, MN $81,619
A-22272-30275 2023-09-18 certified Data Engineer, MN $150,000
A-22280-35819 2023-09-18 certified Software Engineer, MN $124,603
A-22280-35806 2023-09-18 certified Software Engineer, MN $92,290
The other 17
A-22238-12647 2023-09-14 certified Software Engineer, CA $150,000
A-22252-19035 2023-09-14 certified Software Engineer, MN $99,999
A-22252-18955 2023-09-14 certified Software Engineer, MN $124,603
A-22251-18348 2023-09-14 certified Systems Management Analyst, MN $122,000
A-22270-28825 2023-09-12 certified Software Engineer, MN $110,000
A-22280-35875 2023-09-08 certified Software Engineer, MN $101,419
A-22144-60349 2023-09-07 certified Quality Engineer, MN $125,000
A-22272-30867 2023-09-05 certified Data Scientist, MN $90,000
A-22262-23758 2023-09-05 certified Data Quality Analyst/ Business Consultant, MN $105,310
A-22252-18990 2023-08-30 certified Software Engineer, MN $130,998
A-22252-19112 2023-08-30 certified Data Engineer, TX $157,144
A-22251-18544 2023-08-29 certified Software Engineer, MN $92,290
A-22222-03532 2023-08-25 certified Software Engineer, MN $130,998
A-22241-13659 2023-08-25 certified Quality Engineer, MN $125,000
A-22194-87995 2023-08-25 certified Software Engineer, CA $99,999
A-22270-28882 2023-08-23 certified Manager, Software Engineering, MN $134,846
A-22245-16385 2023-08-17 certified Capability Analyst, MN $110,926

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 725
  • China 17
  • Nepal 7
  • Canada 4
  • Mexico 3
  • Bangladesh 2

Worker's education

  • Master's 425
  • Bachelor's 326
  • None 14
  • Doctorate 3

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 721
  • L-1 21
  • H-4 7
  • PAROLEE 6
  • NOT IN USA 5
  • F-1 3

Schools

  • JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 54
  • ANNA UNIVERSITY 22
  • UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS 20
  • UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL MISSOURI 17
  • OSMANIA UNIVERSITY 16
  • ANDHRA UNIVERSITY 15

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 200
  • ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING 56
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 51
  • INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 40
  • APPLIED COMPUTER SCIENCE 39
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 36

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 4 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 #78 counts this page's cases only.

8 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, 261 of 448. 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 448 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 78. 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 444 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 MN. 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 19, 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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