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PERM sponsor, #62 of 70,985 by filings

RIVIAN AUTOMOTIVE, LLC

RIVIAN AUTOMOTIVE, LLC sponsors green cards: it filed 141 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 23, 2026. RIVIAN AUTOMOTIVE, LLC has 121 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers · 12% of its filings
Main worksite
Irvine, CA · 33% of its filings
Industry
Automobile Manufacturing · NAICS 336111

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Filings

538

#62 of 70,985

Certified

507

0 denied

Approval

100.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$137,000

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 570 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

121

of 570 tracked cases. The other 449 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed January 8, 2026, 9 months ago.

Where those 121 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
121100%

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 570 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 570, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 23, 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.

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. RIVIAN AUTOMOTIVE, LLC

    median of 20 decisions in the last 90 days

    293 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 32,219 decisions in the same 90 days

    301 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 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, one line each.

PERM (green card)
538 published
121 pending
$137,000 median, n=538
Prevailing wage requests
679 published
38 pending
$108,326 median, n=648
H-1B labor condition applications
3,819 published
14 pending
$144,718 median, n=3,818

Its median H-1B wage is $144,718 across 3,818 LCAs, 5.6% higher than its median PERM wage of $137,000 across 538 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 RIVIAN AUTOMOTIVE, LLC, 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: 3,819 LCAs filed by RIVIAN AUTOMOTIVE, LLC, 3,662 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

932 positions for new employment, 1,372 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 932 · 25%
  • Change of employer 7e 1,372 · 37%
  • Continuing 7b 886 · 24%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 16 · 1%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 479 · 13%

Shares of the 3,679 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 281 · 8%
  • Level II 905 · 25%
  • Level III 2,218 · 61%
  • Level IV 233 · 6%

Shares of the 3,637 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; 25 of 3,662 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 3,379 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 3,750. 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 3,749 · E-3 (Australia) 58 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 12. 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 507 decided PERM cases

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

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    141 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 99% of the 14,051 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    925 certified in the last 24 months

    At the top of the 27,861 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    17% of 1,041 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 58% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    62% of 1,037 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 77% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    98.5% of 1,245 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 49% 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 297 and 2,953 filings.

Their median wait
462 days
This one
473 days

This one sits 11 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 62 of 70,985 by volume: 61 filed at least as many filings, and 70,923 filed no more.

Just above
EPAM Systems, Inc. 540 filings
Just below
Applied Materials, Inc. 533 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 · 67 filings, 12% of everything they file · 100.0% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 315 of 538 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

Automobile Manufacturing

NAICS 336111 · 494 filings

  • Automobile and Light Duty Motor Vehicle Manufacturing 33611044
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 343
  • Illinois 157
  • Michigan 35
  • Arizona 3
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 4 states cover 538 of 538 filings.

Where the work is

  • Irvine, CA 178
  • Normal, IL 157
  • Palo Alto, CA 130
  • Plymouth, MI 35
  • Tustin, CA 25
  • Carson, CA 5
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 530 of 538 filings.

Who files for them

  1. FRAGOMEN, DEL REY, BERNSEN & LOEWY, LLP 538 filings · 100.0% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 538 of 538 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Orange County Register

    142 cases

  2. The Pantagraph

    130 cases

  3. The Mercury News

    89 cases

  4. Detroit Free Press

    22 cases

  5. Los Angeles Times

    6 cases

  6. The Arizona Republic

    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. Campus placement offices

    391 cases

  2. Job search websites

    391 cases

  3. Local or ethnic newspapers

    391 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

    0.3%

  2. 30 to 59 days

    0.3%

  3. 60 to 89 days

    43%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    35%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    17%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    4.3%

  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 2017

817 PERM decisions from FY2017 to FY2026, busiest in FY2025 with 290.

  • 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
FY2017 4 0 0
FY2018 3 0 0
FY2019 6 0 0
FY2020 0 0 0
FY2021 13 0 1
FY2022 71 0 2
FY2023 178 0 1
FY2024 149 0 6
FY2025 267 0 23
FY2026 91 0 2

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 279. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22243-15237 2023-08-31 certified Staff Mechanical Engineer, CA $168,570
A-22243-14593 2023-08-31 certified Sr. Mechanical Engineer - Lighting, CA $138,840
A-22242-13947 2023-08-31 certified Sr. EDS DRE, CA $147,500
A-22235-10780 2023-08-31 certified Sr. BMS Vehicle Integration Engineer, CA $144,200
A-22240-12988 2023-08-31 certified Senior Interior Project Engineer, CA $155,000
A-22245-16013 2023-08-31 certified Lead Structures Integration Engineer, MI $153,000
A-22245-16008 2023-08-31 certified Senior Test Engineer, Self-Driving, MI $175,000
A-22244-15384 2023-08-31 certified Sr. Surface Designer, CA $150,000
The other 17
A-22244-15376 2023-08-31 certified Sr. Geometric Designer, CA $154,500
A-22244-15364 2023-08-31 certified Sr. Mechanical Engineer, CA $143,000
A-22243-14596 2023-08-31 certified Staff Project Engineer, CA $168,300
A-22243-14592 2023-08-31 certified Sr. Vehicle Packaging Engineer, CA $149,000
A-22243-14590 2023-08-31 certified Sr. Multibody Simulation 3. Engineer, CA $156,750
A-22242-13974 2023-08-31 certified Manager, Soft Trim & Cargo, CA $160,000
A-22242-13901 2023-08-31 certified Sr. Lead, Supplier Quality Engineer, CA $158,570
A-22241-13291 2023-08-31 certified Sr. Mechanical Engineer - Exterior Trim, CA $130,027
A-22241-13274 2023-08-31 certified Staff Mechanical Engineer, CA $155,000
A-22238-12413 2023-08-31 certified Senior Manufacturing Engineer, IL $100,000
A-22236-10821 2023-08-31 certified Sr. Structural Durability Engineer, CA $130,000
A-22245-15990 2023-08-31 certified Sr Staff, ERP Manufacturing, IL $193,500
A-22245-15973 2023-08-31 certified Sr. Technical Program Manager, CA $170,000
A-22238-12403 2023-08-31 certified Staff Manufacturing Engineer, IL $138,480
A-22242-13968 2023-08-31 certified Staff Resident Engineer, IL $141,960
A-22241-13799 2023-08-31 certified System Test Engineer, CA $181,900
A-22243-14577 2023-08-31 certified Sr. Staff Systems Engineer, CA $200,000

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 214
  • China 26
  • Mexico 16
  • Canada 10
  • South Korea 3
  • Jordan 2

Worker's education

  • Master's 205
  • Bachelor's 70
  • Doctorate 3
  • None 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 274
  • TN 5

Schools

  • WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY 16
  • CLEMSON UNIVERSITY 14
  • MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 10
  • JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 9
  • UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 8
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 6

Fields of study

  • MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 69
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 23
  • MECHANICAL ENGINEERING U.S EQUIVALENT 17
  • INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING 13
  • AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING 12
  • AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING 11

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 3 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 #62 counts this page's cases only.

54 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, 67 of 538. 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 538 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 62. 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 507 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 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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