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PERM sponsor, #12,038 of 70,985 by filings

SOTHEBYS, INC.

SOTHEBYS, INC. sponsors green cards: it filed 2 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on February 4, 2026. SOTHEBYS, INC. has 1 PERM case waiting with DOL.

Main job
Data Warehousing Specialists · 50% of its filings
Main worksite
New York, NY · 100% of its filings
Industry
Art Dealers · NAICS 453920

Waiting on a case with SOTHEBYS, INC.?

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Too few cases for a rate

4 decided filings: too few for an approval rate.

Why

Across every PERM case DOL decided in this window, 3.20% were denied. At that rate a file this size comes back clean most of the time whatever the sponsor did, so a percentage would be a fact about how few cases there are. Telling a clean record apart from the field takes about 117 decided cases.

Filings

4

#12,038 of 70,985

Certified

3

1 denied

Approval

Not shown

withheld: 4 decided

Median wage

$138,000

offered, per year

Median days

400

middle of 4 decided

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 4 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

1

of 4 tracked cases. The other 3 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed February 4, 2026, 8 months ago.

Where those 1 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
1100%

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 4 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 4, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 21, 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 30,678 decisions in the same 90 days

    301 days

Only 1 of their cases was 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 79,922 cases, and would be decided around March 18, 2027 (between February 26, 2027 and April 27, 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)
4 published
1 pending
4 wages, under the floor
Prevailing wage requests
5 published
0 pending
5 wages, under the floor
H-1B labor condition applications
88 published
0 pending
$107,500 median, n=88

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 3 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 SOTHEBYS, INC., newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.

Wage requests

  • P-100-25062-739323 Staff Product Designer $155,688 per year 2025-03-03 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-24340-522310 VP, Head of Buying, Merchandising & E-Comm., Wine & Spirits $106,101 per year 2024-12-05 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-24236-291279 VP, Head of Contemporary Marquee Sales $114,421 per year 2024-08-23 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-24204-213429 Senior Counsel $153,254 per year 2024-07-22 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-23194-186119 VP, Head of Regional Strategy Americas & Chief of Staff, WW $79,290 per year 2023-07-13 · 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: 88 LCAs filed by SOTHEBYS, INC., 84 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

28 positions for new employment, 14 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 28 · 33%
  • Change of employer 7e 14 · 17%
  • Continuing 7b 38 · 45%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 0 · 0%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 4 · 5%

Shares of the 84 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 26 · 31%
  • Level II 13 · 15%
  • Level III 15 · 18%
  • Level IV 30 · 36%

Shares of the 84 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 84 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 3, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 65 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 82. 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 80 · E-3 (Australia) 5 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 3. 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 filings in the last 12 months

    2 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 54% of the 14,008 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    16 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 79% of the 27,902 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

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

Approval rate

not shownunder 30 decided

0% 100%

Median days to decision

400 daysmiddle of 4 decided, too few to rank

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. This sponsor has 4 decided cases, so its median days is marked but left unranked, and no approval rate is drawn at all.
DOL PERM disclosure files

Against the sponsors ranked nearest

The 120 sponsors ranked nearest filed between 3 and 4 filings.

Their median wait
392 days
This one
400 days

This one sits 8 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 12,038 of 70,985 by volume: 12,037 filed at least as many filings, and 58,947 filed no more.

Just above
LADY TONI, INC. 4 filings
Just below
CITY FURNITURE, INC. 4 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 Data Warehousing Specialists, 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

Data Warehousing Specialists

SOC 15-1243.01 · 2 filings, 50% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 3 occupations with the most filings, 4 of 4 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

Art Dealers

NAICS 453920 · 4 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

  • New York 4
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 4 of 4 filings.

Where the work is

  • New York, NY 4
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. This city covers 4 of 4 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen Loewy, LLP 4 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 4 of 4 filings, 100% of the total.

History

Year by year since 2020

20 PERM decisions from FY2020 to FY2024, busiest in FY2021 with 7.

  • certified
  • denied
  • withdrawn

Fiscal years, October to September. A year filed under another name is missing, not zero. FY2024 is partial: DOL's newest file runs through June 2026.

Every year as a table
Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn
FY2020 2 0 1
FY2021 7 0 0
FY2022 3 0 0
FY2023 3 0 0
FY2024 3 1 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

All 16. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22200-91049 2023-07-10 certified Digital and Email Marketing Specialist, NY $64,575
A-22221-03072 2023-06-15 certified Senior Exhibitions Associate, NY $61,800
A-22165-71945 2023-03-14 certified Client Strategist, Global Fine Arts and Art & Objects, NY $88,941
A-21211-24848 2022-02-10 certified Data Product Owner, NY $95,000
A-21190-15134 2022-01-24 certified Machine Learning Engineer, NY $150,000
A-21162-00085 2021-12-20 certified Asst Vice President, Porcelain & Ceramics, NY $80,500
A-21091-69529 2021-09-20 certified AVP, Specialist, African and Oceanic Art, NY $91,999
A-21032-47869 2021-08-06 certified AVP, Specialist, Chinese Works of Art, NY $93,000
The other 8
A-20314-18571 2021-07-22 certified Senior VP, Head of Dept, Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, NY $205,000
A-20346-32485 2021-07-09 certified SVP, Specialist, Impressionist & Modern Art, NY $168,000
A-20346-32493 2021-06-28 certified Consignment Manager, Chinese Works of Art, NY $80,000
A-20343-30730 2021-06-11 certified Project Manager, Jewelry, NY $71,911
A-20310-17553 2021-05-27 certified Manager, Back End Java Developer, NY $154,096
A-20114-46346 2020-09-17 certified Vice President, Global Head of Partnerships, NY $140,000
A-20038-16814 2020-06-22 certified Application Engineer, SAP ABAP, NY $140,000
A-20098-40052 2020-04-22 withdrawn Vice President, Global Head of Partnerships, NY $120,000

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

  • United Kingdom 4
  • China 3
  • Belgium 2
  • Canada 2
  • India 2
  • Austria 1

Worker's education

  • Master's 9
  • Bachelor's 7

Visa held when filed

  • L-1 8
  • H-1B 7
  • F-1 1

Schools

  • UNIVERSITY OF LIEGE 2
  • COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 1
  • COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK 1
  • FUDAN UNIVERSITY 1
  • KINGSTON UNIVERSITY 1
  • NAGPUR UNIVERSITY 1

Fields of study

  • BACHELOR OF ARTS 3
  • MANAGEMENT 2
  • APPLIED ANALYTICS 1
  • APPLIED COMPUTER SCIENCE 1
  • ART HISTORY 1
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 1

Notes on these numbers

What these numbers don't say

5 notes
The wage is the job, not the payer
Their filings are led by Data Warehousing Specialists, 2 of 4. 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 4 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 12,038. 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 4 decided cases
That’s a middle of a handful, and it moves entirely with which months those few cases were filed in.
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 NY. 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 21, 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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