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PERM sponsor, #97 of 70,985 by filings

SAVANNAH CHATHAM COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM

SAVANNAH CHATHAM COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM sponsors green cards: it filed 59 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on March 23, 2026. SAVANNAH CHATHAM COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM has 34 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education · 28% of its filings
Main worksite
Savannah, GA · 100% of its filings
Industry
Elementary and Secondary Schools · NAICS 6111

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Filings

375

#97 of 70,985

Certified

370

3 denied

Approval

99.2%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$62,506

offered, per year

Median days

395

71 faster 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 294 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

34

of 294 tracked cases. The other 260 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed May 21, 2025, 17 months ago.

Where those 34 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
3294%

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

RECONSIDERATION APPEALS
26%

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 294 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 294, 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

  1. October 22 DOL certified 20 of its cases

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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. SAVANNAH CHATHAM COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM

    median of 25 decisions in the last 90 days

    269 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 32,341 decisions in the same 90 days

    301 days

32 days shorter than everyone's over this window. 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)
375 published
34 pending
$62,506 median, n=375
Prevailing wage requests
32 published
1 pending
$48,400 median, n=32
H-1B labor condition applications
1,317 published
0 pending
$61,168 median, n=1,316

Its median H-1B wage is $61,168 across 1,316 LCAs, 2.1% lower than its median PERM wage of $62,506 across 375 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 34 pending PERM cases, 2 (5.9%) sit outside DOL's normal queue: 2 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, 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 SAVANNAH CHATHAM COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM, 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: 1,317 LCAs filed by SAVANNAH CHATHAM COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM, 1,311 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

691 positions for new employment, 116 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 691 · 53%
  • Change of employer 7e 116 · 9%
  • Continuing 7b 501 · 38%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 3 · 1%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 2 · 1%

Shares of the 1,311 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 211 · 16%
  • Level II 433 · 33%
  • Level III 340 · 26%
  • Level IV 327 · 25%

Shares of the 1,311 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; 0 of 1,311 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 18, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 1,225 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 1,317. 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

    99.2% of 373 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 27% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    59 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 99% of the 14,057 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    386 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 99% of the 27,849 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    6.9% of 419 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 26% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    50% of 419 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 66% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

Approval rate

99.2%ahead of 27%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

395 daysahead of 91%

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 237 and 825 filings.

Their median wait
462 days
This one
395 days

This one sits 67 days ahead of 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 97 of 70,985 by volume: 96 filed at least as many filings, and 70,888 filed no more.

Just above
THE DEVEREUX FOUNDATION 375 filings
Just below
Goldman Sachs Services LLC 373 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 Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education, 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

Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education

SOC 25-2021.00 · 106 filings, 28% of everything they file · 99.1% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 327 of 375 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

Elementary and Secondary Schools

NAICS 6111 · 375 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

  • Georgia 375
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. This state covers 375 of 375 filings.

Where the work is

  • Savannah, GA 375
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. This city covers 375 of 375 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Watts and Watts 375 filings · 99.2% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 375 of 375 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. Savannah Morning News

    237 cases

  2. Savannah Morning New

    1 cases

  3. Savannah Morning Newss

    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. Campus placement offices

    237 cases

  2. Employee referral programs

    237 cases

  3. Job fairs

    227 cases

  4. Job search websites

    10 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

    48%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    42%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    5.5%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    4.2%

  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 2024

375 PERM decisions from FY2024 to FY2026, busiest in FY2024 with 148.

  • 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
FY2024 147 1 0
FY2025 130 0 0
FY2026 93 2 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. 1 other spelling of this name was folded into this page and its cases are counted here. The 7 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 #97 counts this page's cases only.

22 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 Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education, 106 of 375. 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 375 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 97. 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 373 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 GA. 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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