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PERM sponsor, #1,177 of 70,985 by filings

PEPSICO, INC.

PEPSICO, INC. sponsors green cards: it filed 12 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on September 8, 2026. PEPSICO, INC. has 11 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Computer and Information Systems Managers · 17% of its filings
Main worksite
Plano, TX · 57% of its filings
Industry
Soft Drink Manufacturing · NAICS 312111

Waiting on a case with PEPSICO, INC.?

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This rate is level with the field

Over 35 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 9.9% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

35

#1,177 of 70,985

Certified

35

0 denied

Approval

100.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$139,464

offered, per year

Median days

473

7 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 46 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

11

of 46 tracked cases. The other 35 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed March 31, 2025, 18 months ago.

Where those 11 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
1091%

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

RECONSIDERATION APPEALS
19%

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 46 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 46, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 18, 2026

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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.

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 28,615 decisions in the same 90 days

    302 days

Only 4 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 80,983 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)
35 published
11 pending
$139,464 median, n=35
Prevailing wage requests
64 published
2 pending
$153,317 median, n=62
H-1B labor condition applications
351 published
0 pending
$132,704 median, n=350

Its median H-1B wage is $132,704 across 350 LCAs, 4.8% lower than its median PERM wage of $139,464 across 35 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 11 pending PERM cases, 1 (9.1%) sit outside DOL's normal queue: 1 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 PEPSICO, 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: 351 LCAs filed by PEPSICO, INC., 347 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

123 positions for new employment, 76 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 123 · 35%
  • Change of employer 7e 76 · 22%
  • Continuing 7b 105 · 30%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 8 · 2%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 36 · 10%

Shares of the 347 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 14 · 4%
  • Level II 151 · 44%
  • Level III 83 · 24%
  • Level IV 96 · 28%

Shares of the 344 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; 3 of 347 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 318 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 340. 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 340 · E-3 (Australia) 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

    100.0% of 35 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 67% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    12 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 92% of the 13,942 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    80 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 96% of the 27,916 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    3.2% of 94 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 13% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    65% of 93 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 80% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    100.0% of 102 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

100.0%ahead of 34%, level with 891 more

0% 100%

Median days to decision

473 daysahead of 38%

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 33 and 37 filings.

Their median wait
464 days
This one
473 days

This one sits 9 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 1,177 of 70,985 by volume: 1,176 filed at least as many filings, and 69,808 filed no more.

Just above
MedStar Medical Group II, LLC 35 filings
Just below
Johnson & Johnson Services, Inc. 35 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 Computer and Information Systems Managers, 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

Computer and Information Systems Managers

SOC 11-3021.00 · 6 filings, 17% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 18 of 35 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

Soft Drink Manufacturing

NAICS 312111 · 35 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

  • Texas 20
  • New York 10
  • California 2
  • Illinois 2
  • Arkansas 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 5 states cover 35 of 35 filings.

Where the work is

  • Plano, TX 20
  • Purchase, NY 6
  • New York, NY 3
  • Chicago, IL 2
  • Palo Alto, CA 2
  • Rogers, AR 1
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 34 of 35 filings.

Who files for them

  1. FRAGOMEN, DEL REY, BERNSEN &LOEWY, LLP 35 filings · 100.0% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 35 of 35 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Dallas Morning News

    16 cases

  2. The New York Times

    5 cases

  3. Chicago Tribune

    2 cases

  4. San Francisco Chronicle

    2 cases

  5. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette NW

    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. The employer's website

    26 cases

  2. Job search websites

    26 cases

  3. Local or ethnic newspapers

    26 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

    0.0%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    23%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    27%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    50%

  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

151 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2013 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
FY2008 6 0 0
FY2009 5 0 0
FY2010 8 1 0
FY2011 3 1 1
FY2012 6 0 3
FY2013 11 1 2
FY2014 8 0 1
FY2015 8 0 0
FY2016 8 0 0
FY2017 4 2 0
FY2018 4 0 1
FY2019 2 0 0
FY2020 4 0 0
FY2021 5 0 1
FY2022 9 0 0
FY2023 9 0 2
FY2024 10 0 0
FY2025 13 0 0
FY2026 12 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 51. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22170-74509 2023-09-14 certified Info Security Manager, TX $135,866
A-22147-62108 2023-06-29 withdrawn R&D Eng Principal Engineer, TX $111,900
A-22147-62151 2023-06-16 certified Digital Agriculture and New Ventures IT Director, NY $118,893
A-22025-02250 2023-03-22 certified R&D FSRA Principal Scientist, NY $114,280
A-22059-16766 2023-02-13 certified eCommerce Principal Data Scientist, NY $125,000
A-22042-10429 2023-02-13 certified eCommerce Data Products and Infrastructure Engineering Head, CA $276,328
A-22018-98998 2023-02-01 certified Senior Manager – IT Strategy, TX $163,810
A-22012-97383 2023-01-13 withdrawn R&D Senior Manager, R&D Data Governance & Data Exchange, NY $165,610
The other 17
A-21354-88734 2022-10-28 certified eCommerce Sales Strategy Manager, NY $130,000
A-22006-94303 2022-10-27 certified eCommerce Data Engineer, CA $184,080
A-22019-99520 2022-10-03 certified Finance Senior Manager, NY $170,331
A-20027-11499 2022-08-25 certified Director, Platforms & Academic Partnerships, NY $200,054
A-21319-72880 2022-07-19 certified eCommerce Product Lead, NY $237,016
A-19338-90433 2022-04-27 certified Global Procurement Director, NY $178,464
A-20307-15337 2022-04-12 certified IT Strategy & Transformation Sr. Specialist, TX $113,027
A-20309-16475 2022-04-04 certified eCommerce Product Catalog Product Manager / eCommerce Data Analyst, CA $101,338
A-21215-26237 2022-02-04 certified eCommerce Data Engineer, CA $120,578
A-20027-11506 2021-12-22 certified R&D Engineering Associate Manager, NY $89,898
A-20357-35798 2021-12-22 certified Manager, Total Rewards, NY $105,300
A-21131-84634 2021-11-01 certified Commercialization Senior Manager, NY $144,040
A-20191-74262 2021-09-22 certified Communication Director-Global Brand Protection/Digital Reputation & Issues Manag, TX $149,906
A-19248-53444 2021-08-17 withdrawn Analytics Insights Senior Manager, TX $113,027
A-19239-49591 2021-06-28 certified Senior Commercialization Manager, NY $96,600
A-19333-89048 2021-06-03 certified Global Insights Director, Brand Equity, IL $161,138
A-20063-25688 2021-05-24 certified eCommerce Data Engineer, CA $113,797

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 26
  • Canada 9
  • China 3
  • Mexico 3
  • Italy 2
  • United Kingdom 2

Worker's education

  • Master's 25
  • Bachelor's 23
  • Doctorate 1
  • None 1
  • Other 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 40
  • L-1 8
  • E-3 1
  • NOT IN USA 1
  • TN 1

Schools

  • OSMANIA UNIVERSITY 2
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH 2
  • UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO 2
  • VISVESWARAIAH TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, BELGAUM 2
  • ANNA UNIVERSITY 1
  • CLEMSON UNIVERSITY 1

Fields of study

  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 8
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 3
  • ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 3
  • MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 3
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 2
  • FOOD SCIENCE 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 #1,177 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 Computer and Information Systems Managers, 6 of 35. 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 35 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 1,177. 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 35 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 18, 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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