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Spirit Airlines, Inc.

Spirit Airlines, Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 1 PERM case in the last 12 months.

Main job
Software Developers · 31% of its filings
Main worksite
Miramar, FL · 69% of its filings
Industry
Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation · NAICS 481111

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Too few cases for a rate

12 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

13

#3,526 of 70,985

Certified

9

3 denied

Approval

Not shown

withheld: 12 decided

Median wage

$87,256

offered, per year

Median days

470

4 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 13 cases in the live tracker

Nothing for this sponsor is waiting on a decision. All 13 of their cases in the live tracker are closed.

All 13 of this sponsor's cases in DOL's live status are decided: nothing of theirs is in the queue. Live case tracker, as of October 25, 2026

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What DOL has done to its cases as a group

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Layoff notices filed by Spirit Airlines, Inc.

Notices of a mass layoff or closing filed with the state under the WARN Act, as the state printed them, matched to this sponsor by name. What a layoff means for a PERM.

  • May 29, 2026, 653 employees. Georgia WARN report
  • May 8, 2026, permanent layoff, 643 employees, Wayne, effective May 2, 2026. Michigan WARN report 2500 World Gateway Place, Detroit, MI 48242
  • May 4, 2026, 2,529 employees, effective May 2, 2026. Florida WARN report Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL), 100 Terminal Dr, Fort Lauderdale, FORT LAUDERDALE, FL, 33315
  • May 4, 2026, 796 employees, effective May 2, 2026. Florida WARN report Orlando International Airport (MCO), 1 Jeff Fuqua Blvd, Orlando, ORLANDO, FL, 32827
  • May 4, 2026, 181 employees, effective May 2, 2026. Florida WARN report Miami International Airport (MIA), 2100 NW 42nd Ave, Miami, MIAMI, FL, 33142
  • May 4, 2026, 796 employees, effective May 2, 2026. Florida WARN report MCO Infight & Operations Center (OOC), 10084 Air Tran Blvd Orlando, ORLANDO, FL, 32827
  • May 4, 2026, 551 employees, effective May 2, 2026. Florida WARN report Spirit Support Center, 1731 Radiant Drive Dania Beach, DANIA BEACH, FL, 33004
  • May 4, 2026, plant closure, 13 employees, Anne Arundel, effective May 2, 2026. Maryland WARN report Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) 7050 Friendship Rd., Baltimore, MD 21240
  • May 2, 2026, closure, permanent, 186 employees, New York, effective May 2, 2026. New York WARN report LaGuardia Airport (LGA) 9400 Ditmars Blvd East Elmhurst, NY, 11369
  • May 2026, 201 employees, effective May 2, 2026. New Jersey WARN report Newark

How long it takes

How long their cases are taking

  1. Every employer

    median of 32,343 decisions in the same 90 days

    301 days

None 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 79,966 cases, and would be decided around March 23, 2027 (between March 3, 2027 and May 2, 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)
13 published
0 pending
$87,256 median, n=13
Prevailing wage requests
15 published
0 pending
$89,024 median, n=15
H-1B labor condition applications
230 published
0 pending
$185,910 median, n=230

Its median H-1B wage is $185,910 across 230 LCAs, 113% higher than its median PERM wage of $87,256 across 13 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, 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 Spirit Airlines, Inc., newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.

Wage requests

  • P-100-26089-740726 Vice President, Special Projects $178,651 per year 2026-03-30 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-25237-265278 Sr. Accountant $72,134 per year 2025-08-25 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-25234-262038 Sr. Accountant $72,134 per year 2025-08-22 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-25234-262013 Sr. Accountant $72,134 per year 2025-08-22 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-25154-047989 Sr. Analyst, Finance $89,024 per year 2025-06-03 · 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: 230 LCAs filed by Spirit Airlines, Inc., 226 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

67 positions for new employment, 90 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 67 · 25%
  • Change of employer 7e 90 · 34%
  • Continuing 7b 106 · 40%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 0 · 0%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 2 · 1%

Shares of the 265 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 3 · 7%
  • Level II 19 · 41%
  • Level III 14 · 30%
  • Level IV 10 · 22%

Shares of the 46 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; 180 of 226 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 November 20, 2025. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 46 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 47. 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 47 · E-3 (Australia) 183. 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

    1 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 22% of the 14,049 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    55 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 94% of the 27,833 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    1.4% of 72 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 9% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

Approval rate

not shownunder 30 decided

0% 100%

Median days to decision

470 daysmiddle of 12 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 12 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 13 filings each.

Their median wait
468 days
This one
470 days

This one sits 2 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 3,526 of 70,985 by volume: 3,525 filed at least as many filings, and 67,459 filed no more.

Just above
Spirent Communications, Inc. 13 filings
Just below
Mainspring Energy Inc. 13 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 · 4 filings, 31% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 11 of 13 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

Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation

NAICS 481111 · 13 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

  • Florida 13
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 13 of 13 filings.

Where the work is

  • Miramar, FL 9
  • Dania Beach, FL 4
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 2 cities cover 13 of 13 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Alejandro Franco P.A. 13 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 13 of 13 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. Sun-Sentinel

    13 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. Job search websites

    13 cases

  2. Local or ethnic newspapers

    13 cases

  3. Radio or TV ads

    13 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

    54%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    15%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    23%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    7.7%

  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

36 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2025 with 9.

  • 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 1 0 0
FY2009 0 0 0
FY2010 0 0 0
FY2011 1 0 0
FY2012 0 0 0
FY2013 0 0 1
FY2014 4 0 0
FY2015 1 0 0
FY2016 3 1 0
FY2017 1 0 0
FY2018 1 0 0
FY2019 4 0 0
FY2020 2 0 0
FY2021 2 0 0
FY2022 0 0 0
FY2023 1 0 0
FY2024 0 0 0
FY2025 8 0 1
FY2026 1 3 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

All 15. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22076-26937 2023-01-10 certified Data Integration Developer, FL $61,547
A-20286-09630 2021-05-25 certified Powerplant Engineer, FL $59,488
A-20227-88479 2021-04-01 certified ERP Solutions Developer, FL $79,560
A-19225-43716 2020-07-15 certified Senior Analyst, Flight Operations and Regulatory Compliance, FL $55,141
A-20063-25717 2020-07-13 certified Manager, Data Strategy & Analytics, FL $62,774
A-18208-01998 2019-03-22 certified Senior Analyst Financial, FL $60,320
A-18281-26425 2019-01-24 certified Senior Manager, Loyalty Programs & Co-brand Cards, FL $138,000
A-18248-14808 2018-12-03 certified Vice President Airport Operations, FL $102,211
The other 7
A-18253-16342 2018-11-19 certified Business to Business Administrator, FL $79,810
A-17305-05690 2018-04-17 certified Fleet Engineer, FL $90,251
A-16195-32294 2016-11-18 certified Senior Director Ancillary Revenue, FL $144,186
A-16172-23904 2016-08-23 certified Analyst, Consumer Marketing Analytics, FL $42,000
A-15334-44231 2016-08-11 denied Pricing and Revenue Management Specialist, FL $119,122
A-16090-90833 2016-07-15 certified Analyst Inventory, FL $67,642
A-15097-64683 2015-11-16 certified Manager, Airport Affairs and Property Management, FL $61,069

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 5
  • China 4
  • Canada 3
  • Russia 1
  • Singapore 1
  • Venezuela 1

Worker's education

  • Master's 13
  • Bachelor's 2

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 11
  • F-1 1
  • H-1B1 1
  • O-1 1
  • TN 1

Schools

  • UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA 2
  • CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY 1
  • EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY 1
  • EMBRYRIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY 1
  • NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 1
  • ROLLINS COLLEGE 1

Fields of study

  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 5
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 2
  • AEROSPACE ENGINEERING 1
  • ANTHROPOLOGY 1
  • COMPUTER INFORMATION SYSTEMS 1
  • INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT 1

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 4 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 #3,526 counts this page's cases only.

4 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, 4 of 13. 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 13 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 3,526. 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 12 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 FL. 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 25, 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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