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PERM sponsor, #59 of 70,985 by filings

PayPal, Inc.

PayPal, Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 183 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 19, 2026. PayPal, Inc. has 163 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers · 54% of its filings
Main worksite
San Jose, CA · 64% of its filings
Industry
Financial Transactions Processing, Reserve, and Clearinghouse Activities · NAICS 522320

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Filings

581

#59 of 70,985

Certified

573

1 denied

Approval

99.8%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$148,000

offered, per year

Median days

484

18 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 691 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

163

of 691 tracked cases. The other 528 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed July 25, 2025, 14 months ago.

Where those 163 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
16098%

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

RECONSIDERATION APPEALS
32%

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 691 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 691, 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.

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.

Layoff notices filed by PayPal, Inc.

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.

  • August 31, 2026, layoff permanent, 251 employees, Santa Clara County, effective October 30, 2026. California WARN report 2211 N. First Street, San Jose CA 95131

How long it takes

How long their cases are taking

  1. PayPal, Inc.

    median of 33 decisions in the last 90 days

    301 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 29,126 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 80,651 cases, and would be decided around March 15, 2027 (between February 23, 2027 and April 24, 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)
581 published
163 pending
$148,000 median, n=581
Prevailing wage requests
817 published
66 pending
$156,777 median, n=795
H-1B labor condition applications
7,082 published
10 pending
$158,722 median, n=7,073

Its median H-1B wage is $158,722 across 7,073 LCAs, 7.2% higher than its median PERM wage of $148,000 across 581 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 163 pending PERM cases, 3 (1.8%) sit outside DOL's normal queue: 3 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 PayPal, 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: 7,082 LCAs filed by PayPal, Inc., 6,327 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

1,810 positions for new employment, 1,735 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 1,810 · 23%
  • Change of employer 7e 1,735 · 22%
  • Continuing 7b 3,722 · 48%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 4 · 1%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 535 · 7%

Shares of the 7,806 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 154 · 3%
  • Level II 1,345 · 30%
  • Level III 1,509 · 34%
  • Level IV 1,429 · 32%

Shares of the 4,437 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; 1,890 of 6,327 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
Yes
Found a willful violator
No

As answered on its newest LCA, filed June 23, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 1,165 of 6,437 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 7,023. 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 7,023 · E-3 (Australia) 47 · H-1B1 (Chile) 1 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 11. 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 574 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 33% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    182 filed in the last 12 months

    At the top of the 13,949 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    1,725 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

    26% of 1,950 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 77% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    66% of 1,081 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 81% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    98.6% of 2,073 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 50% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

Also on its record

  • Its newest LCA that answered declared it H-1B dependent (decided 2026-06-30).
Position in the field 1,343 sponsors with 30+ decided

Approval rate

99.8%ahead of 33%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

484 daysahead of 22%

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 118 sponsors ranked nearest filed between 302 and 6,875 filings.

Their median wait
462 days
This one
484 days

This one sits 22 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 59 of 70,985 by volume: 58 filed at least as many filings, and 70,926 filed no more.

Just above
MORGAN TRUCK BODY LLC 592 filings
Just below
Health Carousel, LLC 552 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 · 313 filings, 54% of everything they file · 99.7% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 458 of 581 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

Financial Transactions Processing, Reserve, and Clearinghouse Activities

NAICS 522320, 52232 · 575 filings

  • Used Merchandise Retailers 4595106
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

  • California 378
  • Texas 93
  • Arizona 46
  • New York 24
  • Illinois 21
  • Nebraska 13
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 575 of 581 filings.

Where the work is

  • San Jose, CA 372
  • Austin, TX 92
  • Scottsdale, AZ 45
  • New York, NY 24
  • Chicago, IL 21
  • La Vista, NE 10
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 564 of 581 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Erickson Immigration Group 580 filings · 99.8% approved
  2. Erickson Immigration 1 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 581 of 581 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. San Francisco Chronicle

    326 cases

  2. Austin American-Statesman

    61 cases

  3. The Arizona Republic

    20 cases

  4. The New York Times

    19 cases

  5. Chicago Tribune

    15 cases

  6. Omaha World-Herald

    10 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

    459 cases

  2. The employer's website

    458 cases

  3. Local or ethnic newspapers

    458 cases

  4. Campus placement offices

    1 cases

  5. Employee referral programs

    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

    8.1%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    22%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    23%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    47%

  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

3,327 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2025 with 300.

  • 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 59 1 0
FY2009 37 1 0
FY2010 96 3 0
FY2011 85 2 1
FY2012 122 6 1
FY2013 66 0 2
FY2014 204 1 1
FY2015 167 3 3
FY2016 241 1 7
FY2017 223 1 3
FY2018 233 1 2
FY2019 220 2 4
FY2020 288 3 1
FY2021 160 0 0
FY2022 203 1 8
FY2023 275 1 7
FY2024 129 1 6
FY2025 299 0 1
FY2026 145 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 1,885. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22292-42558 2023-09-28 certified MTS 1, Software Engineer, TX $158,000
A-22306-50607 2023-09-28 certified Software Engineer 3, TX $125,000
A-22264-25863 2023-09-28 certified FX Analyst, TX $108,810
A-22234-09531 2023-09-25 certified Database Engineer 3, CA $154,981
A-22257-21074 2023-09-19 certified Data Engineer 3, CA $184,080
A-22273-31158 2023-09-18 certified MTS 2, Software Engineer, TX $153,953
A-22280-35917 2023-09-14 certified Data Engineer 3, CA $153,801
A-22278-34212 2023-09-14 certified MTS 1, Technical Account Manager, AZ $123,906
The other 17
A-22287-39928 2023-09-08 certified Software Engineer, TX $107,263
A-21294-61678 2023-09-06 certified Software Engineer 1, CA $122,978
A-22250-17927 2023-09-06 certified Business Analytics 3, CA $148,292
A-22256-20713 2023-09-05 certified Senior Data Scientist, Product, CA $125,000
A-22286-39037 2023-09-01 certified Sr. Financial Analyst, NY $122,400
A-22283-36580 2023-08-29 certified Senior Product Manager 1-Technical, TX $138,774
A-22272-31108 2023-08-28 certified MTS 1, Technical Account Manager, AZ $125,000
A-22276-32543 2023-08-24 certified Manager, Tax 2, CA $167,000
A-22235-10713 2023-08-23 certified Network Security Engineer 3, AZ $119,900
A-22270-29245 2023-08-23 certified Senior Integration Engineer, CA $173,000
A-22277-33510 2023-08-23 certified Data Scientist 1, CA $155,000
A-22272-31089 2023-08-23 certified Sr. Product Manager 1, TX $164,656
A-22276-32193 2023-08-22 certified Manager, People Analytics and HR Tech, CA $153,424
A-22088-32625 2023-08-17 certified Software Engineer 2, CA $141,893
A-22081-28794 2023-08-15 certified Solutions Engineer 3, NY $103,960
A-22250-17850 2023-08-02 certified Treasury Analyst 4, TX $125,000
A-22210-97257 2023-07-31 certified Sales Operations Analyst, CA $157,000

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 1,474
  • China 242
  • Canada 16
  • Israel 15
  • Brazil 11
  • Guatemala 9

Worker's education

  • Master's 1,219
  • Bachelor's 628
  • Doctorate 19
  • None 16
  • Associate's 1
  • High School 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 1,674
  • L-1 182
  • F-1 8
  • H-4 5
  • TN 5
  • O-1 3

Schools

  • ANNA UNIVERSITY 81
  • SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY 74
  • UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 58
  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY 43
  • JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 42
  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY 40

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 440
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 142
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 115
  • SOFTWARE ENGINEERING 93
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING 80
  • INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 69

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 #59 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 Software Developers, 313 of 581. 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 581 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 59. 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 574 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 CA. 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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