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PERM sponsor, #598 of 70,985 by filings

Stanley Black & Decker Inc.

Stanley Black & Decker Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 23 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on August 31, 2026. Stanley Black & Decker Inc. has 10 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Mechanical Engineers · 17% of its filings
Main worksite
Towson, MD · 52% of its filings
Industry
Other Miscellaneous Manufacturing · NAICS 3399

Waiting on a case with Stanley Black & Decker Inc.?

  • When it'll likely be decided
  • An email when DOL moves it

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This rate is level with the field

Over 60 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 8.9% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

64

#598 of 70,985

Certified

59

1 denied

Approval

98.3%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$106,000

offered, per year

Median days

472

6 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 84 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

10

of 84 tracked cases. The other 74 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed December 30, 2025, 9 months ago.

Where those 10 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
10100%

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 84 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 84, never against the lifetime filings above. 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.

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.

Layoff notices filed by Stanley Black & Decker 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.

  • March 14, 2024, 127 employees, Hidalgo, effective May 10, 2024. Texas WARN report Mission

How long it takes

How long their cases are taking

  1. Stanley Black & Decker Inc.

    median of 11 decisions in the last 90 days

    302 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 28,615 decisions in the same 90 days

    302 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 81,062 cases, and would be decided around March 16, 2027 (between February 24, 2027 and April 25, 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)
64 published
10 pending
$106,000 median, n=64
Prevailing wage requests
72 published
5 pending
$91,374 median, n=69
H-1B labor condition applications
633 published
1 pending
$107,568 median, n=631

Its median H-1B wage ($107,568 across 631 LCAs) and its median PERM wage ($106,000 across 64 cases) are within 2% of each other.

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 5 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 Stanley Black & Decker Inc., 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: 633 LCAs filed by Stanley Black & Decker Inc., 608 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

117 positions for new employment, 162 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 117 · 19%
  • Change of employer 7e 162 · 27%
  • Continuing 7b 235 · 39%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 4 · 1%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 91 · 15%

Shares of the 608 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 118 · 20%
  • Level II 211 · 35%
  • Level III 90 · 15%
  • Level IV 183 · 30%

Shares of the 602 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; 6 of 608 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 9, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 580 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 625. 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 625 · E-3 (Australia) 8. 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

    98.3% of 60 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 22% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    23 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 96% of the 13,946 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    137 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 98% of the 27,903 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    17% of 156 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

    54% of 155 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 69% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    98.1% of 160 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 44% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

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

Approval rate

98.3%ahead of 22%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

472 daysahead of 40%

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 58 and 69 filings.

Their median wait
468 days
This one
472 days

This one sits 4 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 598 of 70,985 by volume: 597 filed at least as many filings, and 70,387 filed no more.

Just above
Mitchell/Martin, Inc. 64 filings
Just below
Hitachi Vantara LLC 64 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 Mechanical Engineers, 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

Mechanical Engineers

SOC 17-2141.00 · 11 filings, 17% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 33 of 64 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

Other Miscellaneous Manufacturing

NAICS 3399 · 63 filings

  • All Other General Purpose Machinery Manufacturing 333991
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

  • Maryland 33
  • Texas 9
  • Connecticut 7
  • Michigan 3
  • Ohio 3
  • North Carolina 2
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 57 of 64 filings.

Where the work is

  • Towson, MD 33
  • New Britain, CT 7
  • Mission, TX 4
  • Farmers Branch, TX 3
  • Troy, MI 2
  • Brewster, NY 1
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 50 of 64 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Jackson Lewis, PC 64 filings · 98.3% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 64 of 64 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Baltimore Sun

    25 cases

  2. Hartford Courant

    7 cases

  3. The Dallas Morning News

    3 cases

  4. The Monitor

    3 cases

  5. The Ann Arbor News

    1 cases

  6. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

    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. Local or ethnic newspapers

    49 cases

  2. Radio or TV ads

    49 cases

  3. Job search websites

    33 cases

  4. Campus placement offices

    15 cases

  5. On-campus recruiting

    2 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

    27%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    33%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    22%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    16%

  7. Over 180 days

    2.0%
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 2011

210 PERM decisions from FY2011 to FY2026, busiest in FY2025 with 30.

  • 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
FY2011 3 0 0
FY2012 3 0 0
FY2013 3 0 0
FY2014 5 0 1
FY2015 13 0 0
FY2016 9 0 0
FY2017 6 0 0
FY2018 20 0 0
FY2019 24 0 2
FY2020 20 0 0
FY2021 15 0 1
FY2022 8 0 2
FY2023 11 0 0
FY2024 19 0 1
FY2025 28 0 2
FY2026 12 1 1

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 118. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22290-40862 2023-09-14 certified Sr. Mobile Developer, CA $160,000
A-22265-26866 2023-08-22 certified Project Engineer, MD $108,014
A-22249-17172 2023-08-07 certified Smart Factory Engineer, CT $113,381
A-22207-94948 2023-07-18 certified Lead Business Analyst, CT $135,000
A-22199-89802 2023-05-02 certified Director Commodities-Category Metals, TX $182,645
A-22028-04539 2023-02-13 certified Quality Manager, OH $135,741
A-22111-44430 2023-01-30 certified Sr. Director, Data Analytics - Outdoor, CT $225,000
A-22028-04319 2022-11-30 certified Software Team Leader, MA $143,273
The other 17
A-22020-00139 2022-11-29 certified PURCHASING MANAGER, CT $136,386
A-22019-99740 2022-10-06 certified OPERATIONS MANAGER, AZ $91,875
A-22018-99384 2022-10-04 certified Production Electrical Engineer, NE $69,800
A-22263-24681 2022-09-22 withdrawn Project Engineer, MD $108,014
A-21326-76475 2022-09-19 certified Advance Manufacturing Engineer, Smart Factory, IA $94,095
A-21351-87942 2022-09-13 certified Product Engineer, CT $91,800
A-21340-82112 2022-08-12 withdrawn Sr. Android Developer, GA $125,000
A-21278-54418 2022-07-26 certified LEAD QA ENGINEER, CA $163,800
A-21266-49019 2022-06-03 certified Sr. Engineer, MD $101,109
A-21257-43880 2022-04-13 certified Sr. Data Engineering Manager, AL $170,000
A-21251-41107 2022-04-07 certified Engineering Lead, CA $252,117
A-21161-99477 2022-01-25 certified Reliability Engineer, MD $108,077
A-20232-89976 2021-12-23 certified Lead Business Systems Analyst, IN $138,766
A-21015-42712 2021-07-13 certified Advanced Sourcing Engineer (ASE), MD $84,614
A-20316-19769 2021-07-02 certified Packaging Engineer, OH $88,400
A-20135-54422 2021-06-28 certified Lead, Business Systems-Procure to Pay, CT $125,000
A-20318-21030 2021-06-17 certified Project Lead, Digital Manufacturing, MD $72,000

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 79
  • China 10
  • Mexico 4
  • Nepal 3
  • Venezuela 3
  • Bangladesh 2

Worker's education

  • Master's 63
  • Bachelor's 51
  • Doctorate 2
  • High School 1
  • Other 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 109
  • L-1 3
  • E-3 1
  • F-1 1
  • NOT IN USA 1
  • PAROLEE 1

Schools

  • JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 5
  • ANNA UNIVERSITY 4
  • INDIANA UNIVERSITY 3
  • NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY 3
  • STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO 3
  • THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY 3

Fields of study

  • MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 13
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 11
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 7
  • INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING 7
  • ACCOUNTING 6
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 5

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 8 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 #598 counts this page's cases only.

9 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 Mechanical Engineers, 11 of 64. 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 64 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 598. 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 60 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 MD. 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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