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PERM sponsor, #235 of 70,985 by filings

SPLUNK

Main job
Software Developers · 61% of its filings
Main worksite
San Jose, CA · 39% of its filings
Industry
Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services · NAICS 518210

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This rate is level with the field

Over 154 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 3.6% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

166

#235 of 70,985

Certified

153

1 denied

Approval

99.4%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$161,600

offered, per year

Median days

410

56 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 85 cases in the live tracker

Nothing for this sponsor is waiting on a decision. All 85 of their cases in the live tracker are closed.

All 85 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 19, 2026

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What DOL has done to its cases as a group

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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 28,776 decisions in the same 90 days

    302 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 80,916 cases, and would be decided around March 15, 2027 (between February 23, 2027 and April 24, 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)
166 published
0 pending
$161,600 median, n=166
Prevailing wage requests
126 published
0 pending
$145,073 median, n=122
H-1B labor condition applications
1,029 published
0 pending
$177,000 median, n=1,029

Its median H-1B wage is $177,000 across 1,029 LCAs, 9.5% higher than its median PERM wage of $161,600 across 166 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 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 SPLUNK, newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.

Wage requests

  • P-100-24241-298449 Software Engineer $154,021 per year 2024-08-28 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-24240-298279 Product Manager, Search Infrastructure $163,509 per year 2024-08-27 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-24234-283525 Software Engineer $172,931 per year 2024-08-21 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-24228-270368 Software Engineer $137,259 per year 2024-08-15 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-24214-239201 Software Engineer $105,997 per year 2024-08-01 · DETERMINATION ISSUED

All wage requests by this employer

H-1B LCAs

  • I-200-24239-294226 Senior Manager, Technical Delivery $234,052 per year 2024-08-26 · CERTIFIED
  • I-200-24229-273651 Software Engineering Manager $214,620 per year 2024-08-16 · CERTIFIED
  • I-200-24228-269768 Sr. Business Intelligence Developer $170,000 per year 2024-08-15 · CERTIFIED
  • I-200-24227-267769 Senior Manager, Technical Delivery $234,052 per year 2024-08-14 · CERTIFIED - WITHDRAWN
  • I-200-24227-267483 Senior Software Engineer $192,068 per year 2024-08-14 · CERTIFIED

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: 1,029 LCAs filed by SPLUNK, 999 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

898 positions for new employment, 709 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 898 · 33%
  • Change of employer 7e 709 · 26%
  • Continuing 7b 627 · 23%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 36 · 1%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 434 · 16%

Shares of the 2,703 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 · 1%
  • Level II 133 · 15%
  • Level III 239 · 27%
  • Level IV 515 · 58%

Shares of the 890 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; 109 of 999 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 August 26, 2024. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 915 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 1,018. 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 1,018 · E-3 (Australia) 7 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 4. 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

    99.4% of 154 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 28% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    20% of 30 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 65% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    99.4% of 164 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 58% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

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

Approval rate

99.4%ahead of 28%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

410 daysahead of 85%

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 126 and 216 filings.

Their median wait
469 days
This one
410 days

This one sits 59 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 235 of 70,985 by volume: 234 filed at least as many filings, and 70,750 filed no more.

Just above
State Street Bank and Trust Company 169 filings
Just below
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. AMD 166 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 · 102 filings, 61% of everything they file · 99.0% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 136 of 166 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

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services

NAICS 518210, 51821 · 166 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

  • California 119
  • Washington 34
  • Texas 7
  • Colorado 3
  • Virginia 2
  • North Carolina 1
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 6 states cover 166 of 166 filings.

Where the work is

  • San Jose, CA 64
  • San Francisco, CA 55
  • Seattle, WA 34
  • Plano, TX 7
  • Boulder, CO 3
  • McLean, VA 2
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 165 of 166 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Tafapolsky & Smith LLP 166 filings · 99.4% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 166 of 166 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Mercury News

    31 cases

  2. San Francisco Chronicle

    30 cases

  3. The Seattle Times

    18 cases

  4. The Dallas Morning News

    3 cases

  5. The Washington Post

    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. Job search websites

    84 cases

  2. Local or ethnic newspapers

    84 cases

  3. Trade or professional organizations

    84 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

    81%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    14%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    0.0%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    4.8%

  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

609 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2022 with 97.

  • 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 1 0
FY2011 2 0 0
FY2012 3 0 1
FY2013 3 0 0
FY2014 6 0 0
FY2015 8 0 0
FY2016 47 0 1
FY2017 30 0 0
FY2018 29 0 0
FY2019 18 0 0
FY2020 31 0 1
FY2021 83 1 3
FY2022 93 0 4
FY2023 68 0 9
FY2024 78 0 11
FY2025 24 0 1
FY2026 51 1 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 418. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22298-45457 2023-09-28 certified Manager, Solution Engineering, CA $191,553
A-22312-54249 2023-09-27 certified Software Engineer, CA $161,365
A-22308-52452 2023-09-27 certified Senior Software Engineer, CA $204,000
A-22292-42577 2023-09-26 certified Senior Automation Engineer, CA $211,990
A-22263-25154 2023-09-18 certified Sr. Business Analyst, CA $168,592
A-22280-35688 2023-09-18 certified Security Tooling Engineer, WA $167,965
A-22280-35953 2023-09-13 certified Software Engineer, WA $170,000
A-22283-36780 2023-09-08 certified Sr. Site Reliability Engineer, NC $157,828
The other 17
A-22266-27272 2023-09-05 certified Senior Software Engineer, CA $185,000
A-22271-30149 2023-08-31 certified Sr. Cloud Program Manager, WA $163,200
A-22276-32565 2023-08-24 certified Software Engineer, NC $145,000
A-22271-30165 2023-08-23 certified Software Engineer, WA $173,989
A-22251-18462 2023-08-22 certified Software Engineer, CA $140,400
A-22249-17363 2023-08-22 certified Principal Software Engineer, CA $227,040
A-22195-88413 2023-08-22 certified Sr. Software Engineer, WA $210,000
A-22249-17357 2023-08-22 certified Software Engineer, CA $139,725
A-22251-18515 2023-08-22 certified Engineering Manager, CA $244,800
A-22271-30193 2023-08-21 certified DevOps Engineer, WA $164,800
A-22210-97089 2023-08-18 certified Senior Software Engineer, CA $221,450
A-22146-61851 2023-08-18 certified Senior Systems Engineer, CA $178,000
A-22195-88339 2023-08-17 withdrawn Data Quality Analyst, CA $149,000
A-22271-30131 2023-08-17 certified Software Engineer, CA $162,542
A-22286-39167 2023-08-17 withdrawn Senior Manager, OTC & IT Finance Technology, CA $199,290
A-22281-36032 2023-08-11 withdrawn Sr. Software Engineer in Test, CA $204,000
A-22251-18435 2023-07-28 certified Software Engineer in Test, CA $165,200

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 311
  • China 55
  • Canada 18
  • Greece 5
  • Austria 4
  • Indonesia 3

Worker's education

  • Master's 293
  • Bachelor's 112
  • Doctorate 7
  • Other 6

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 399
  • L-1 12
  • F-1 2
  • PAROLEE 2
  • E-3 1
  • H-4 1

Schools

  • UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 28
  • SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY 23
  • CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY 19
  • NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY 11
  • SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY 11
  • JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 9

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 133
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 55
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 22
  • ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 17
  • SOFTWARE ENGINEERING 14
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING 11

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 Software Developers, 102 of 166. 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 166 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 235. 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 154 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 19, 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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