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PERM sponsor, #735 of 70,985 by filings

PIONEER CONSULTING LLC

PIONEER CONSULTING LLC sponsors green cards: it filed 4 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on September 29, 2026. PIONEER CONSULTING LLC has 2 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers · 76% of its filings
Main worksite
West Des Moines, IA · 83% of its filings
Industry
Custom Computer Programming Services · NAICS 541511

Waiting on a case with PIONEER CONSULTING LLC?

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Filings

54

#735 of 70,985

Certified

45

4 denied

Approval

91.8%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$85,467

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 52 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

2

of 52 tracked cases. The other 50 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed September 27, 2023, 36 months ago.

Where those 2 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
150%

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

BALCA APPEALS
150%

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.

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 52 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 52, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 24, 2026

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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.

How long it takes

How long their cases are taking

  1. Every employer

    median of 32,341 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 79,928 cases, and would be decided around March 24, 2027 (between March 4, 2027 and May 3, 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)
54 published
2 pending
$85,467 median, n=54
Prevailing wage requests
14 published
0 pending
$86,590 median, n=14
H-1B labor condition applications
566 published
1 pending
$96,866 median, n=566

Its median H-1B wage is $96,866 across 566 LCAs, 13% higher than its median PERM wage of $85,467 across 54 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; 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 PIONEER CONSULTING LLC, newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.

Wage requests

  • P-100-25328-431884 Computer Programmer $78,936 per year 2025-11-24 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-25328-431876 Computer Programmer $78,936 per year 2025-11-24 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-25328-431869 Software Developer / Analyst $81,994 per year 2025-11-24 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-25328-431866 Software Developer / Analyst $100,838 per year 2025-11-24 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-25328-431862 Software Developer / Analyst $100,838 per year 2025-11-24 · 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: 566 LCAs filed by PIONEER CONSULTING LLC, 560 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

158 positions for new employment, 62 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 158 · 28%
  • Change of employer 7e 62 · 11%
  • Continuing 7b 56 · 10%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 96 · 17%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 188 · 34%

Shares of the 560 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 72 · 13%
  • Level II 474 · 85%
  • Level III 8 · 1%
  • Level IV 2 · 1%

Shares of the 556 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; 4 of 560 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 476 of 476 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 566. 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

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

    91.8% of 49 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 6% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    4 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 75% of the 14,057 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    96 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 97% of the 27,849 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    5.9% of 118 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 23% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    2.6% of 114 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 11% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    100.0% of 135 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 80% 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

91.8%ahead of 6%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

480 daysahead of 29%

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 50 and 57 filings.

Their median wait
465 days
This one
480 days

This one sits 15 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 735 of 70,985 by volume: 734 filed at least as many filings, and 70,250 filed no more.

Just above
Indiana Mills and Manufacturing, Inc 54 filings
Just below
TomTreyCo, Inc. 54 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 · 41 filings, 76% of everything they file · 94.9% approved

How this is counted

These are the 2 occupations with the most filings, 50 of 54 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

Custom Computer Programming Services

NAICS 541511 · 54 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

  • Iowa 45
  • New Jersey 9
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 54 of 54 filings.

Where the work is

  • West Des Moines, IA 45
  • East Windsor, NJ 5
  • Cranbury, NJ 4
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 3 cities cover 54 of 54 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Immlaws 54 filings · 91.8% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 54 of 54 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. Des Moines Register

    39 cases

  2. IOWA STATE DAILY

    5 cases

  3. The Des Moines Registe

    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

    45 cases

  2. Job search websites

    45 cases

  3. On-campus recruiting

    45 cases

  4. Campus placement offices

    5 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

    2.2%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    38%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    58%

  7. Over 180 days

    2.2%
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 2021

109 PERM decisions from FY2021 to FY2026, busiest in FY2025 with 36.

  • 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
FY2021 21 0 0
FY2022 22 0 0
FY2023 0 12 0
FY2024 8 2 3
FY2025 33 1 2
FY2026 4 1 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 55. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22218-01409 2023-08-03 denied Software Developer/Analyst, NJ $108,680
A-22218-01405 2023-08-03 denied Software Developer/Analyst, NJ $108,680
A-22218-01403 2023-08-03 denied Software Developer/Analyst, NJ $108,680
A-22218-01402 2023-08-03 denied Software Developer/Analyst, NJ $108,680
A-22218-01400 2023-08-03 denied Software Developer/Analyst, NJ $108,680
A-22218-01397 2023-08-03 denied Software Developer/Analyst, NJ $108,680
A-22214-98523 2023-07-31 denied Software Developer/Analyst, NJ $108,680
A-22202-92209 2023-07-31 denied Software Developer/Analyst, NJ $108,680
The other 17
A-22202-92204 2023-07-20 denied Software Developer/Analyst, NJ $108,680
A-22202-92199 2023-07-20 denied Software Developer/Analyst, NJ $108,680
A-22202-92196 2023-07-20 denied Software Developer/Analyst, NJ $108,680
A-22202-92194 2023-07-20 denied Software Developer/Analyst, NJ $108,680
A-21355-89049 2022-08-11 certified Software Developer/Analyst, NJ $100,526
A-21355-89032 2022-08-11 certified Software Developer/Analyst, NJ $100,526
A-21355-89030 2022-08-11 certified Software Developer/Analyst, NJ $100,526
A-21355-89028 2022-08-11 certified Software Developer/Analyst, NJ $100,526
A-21355-89027 2022-08-11 certified Software Developer/Analyst, NJ $100,526
A-21275-53202 2022-04-27 certified Software Developer/Analyst, NJ $100,526
A-21275-53201 2022-04-27 certified Software Developer/Analyst, NJ $100,526
A-21275-53200 2022-04-27 certified Software Developer/Analyst, NJ $100,526
A-21216-26800 2022-04-25 certified Software Developer/Analyst, NJ $100,526
A-21216-26792 2022-04-25 certified Software Developer/Analyst, NJ $100,526
A-21216-26826 2022-04-06 certified Software Developer/Analyst, NJ $100,526
A-21216-26803 2022-04-06 certified Software Developer/Analyst, NJ $100,526
A-21216-26802 2022-04-06 certified Software Developer/Analyst, NJ $100,526

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 55

Worker's education

  • Master's 53
  • Bachelor's 2

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 53
  • F-1 2

Schools

  • UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL MISSOURI 12
  • SOUTHERN ARKANSAS UNIVERSITY 4
  • LAMAR UNIVERSITY 3
  • NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY 3
  • UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS 3
  • NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE 2

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 20
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 3
  • MASTER OF SCIENCE IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS SECURITY 3
  • MASTERS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE 3
  • COMPUTER INFORMATION SYSTEMS 2
  • INFORMATION ASSURANCE SYSTEM IT 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 24 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 #735 counts this page's cases only.

187 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, 41 of 54. 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 54 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 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 49 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 IA. 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 24, 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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