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PERM sponsor, #428 of 70,985 by filings

Starbucks Coffee Company

Starbucks Coffee Company sponsors green cards: it filed 9 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on September 11, 2026. Starbucks Coffee Company has 9 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers · 32% of its filings
Main worksite
Seattle, WA · 98% of its filings
Industry
Coffee and Tea Manufacturing · NAICS 311920

Waiting on a case with Starbucks Coffee Company?

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This rate is level with the field

Over 84 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 4.4% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

85

#428 of 70,985

Certified

84

0 denied

Approval

100.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$159,863

offered, per year

Median days

481

15 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 73 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

9

of 73 tracked cases. The other 64 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed March 12, 2026, 7 months ago.

Where those 9 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
9100%

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 73 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 73, 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

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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. Every employer

    median of 32,341 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 79,663 cases, and would be decided around March 21, 2027 (between March 1, 2027 and April 30, 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)
85 published
9 pending
$159,863 median, n=85
Prevailing wage requests
196 published
4 pending
$137,654 median, n=179
H-1B labor condition applications
1,029 published
0 pending
$148,433 median, n=1,029

Its median H-1B wage is $148,433 across 1,029 LCAs, 7.1% lower than its median PERM wage of $159,863 across 85 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 Starbucks Coffee Company, 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: 1,029 LCAs filed by Starbucks Coffee Company, 947 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

109 positions for new employment, 221 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 109 · 12%
  • Change of employer 7e 221 · 23%
  • Continuing 7b 471 · 50%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 63 · 7%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 83 · 9%

Shares of the 947 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 28 · 3%
  • Level II 193 · 23%
  • Level III 354 · 43%
  • Level IV 249 · 30%

Shares of the 824 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; 123 of 947 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 22, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 936 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 1,021. 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 (Chile) 2 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 2. 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

    100.0% of 84 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 67% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    9 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 89% of the 14,055 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    182 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 98% of the 27,849 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    9.1% of 219 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 34% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    73% of 157 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 87% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    98.5% of 342 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 49% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

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

Approval rate

100.0%ahead of 34%, level with 891 more

0% 100%

Median days to decision

481 daysahead of 27%

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 77 and 100 filings.

Their median wait
465 days
This one
481 days

This one sits 16 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 428 of 70,985 by volume: 427 filed at least as many filings, and 70,557 filed no more.

Just above
West Wind Express, Inc. 85 filings
Just below
Dell USA L.P. 85 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 · 27 filings, 32% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 67 of 85 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

Coffee and Tea Manufacturing

NAICS 311920 · 85 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

  • Washington 83
  • Arizona 1
  • Nevada 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 3 states cover 85 of 85 filings.

Where the work is

  • Seattle, WA 83
  • Minden, NV 1
  • Scottsdale, AZ 1
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 3 cities cover 85 of 85 filings.

Who files for them

  1. EY Law LLP 85 filings · 100.0% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 85 of 85 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Seattle Times

    62 cases

  2. The Arizona Republic

    1 cases

  3. Reno Gazette Journal

    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

    64 cases

  2. Employee referral programs

    64 cases

  3. Local or ethnic newspapers

    64 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

    1.6%

  3. 60 to 89 days

    1.6%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    27%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    38%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    33%

  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

407 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2018 with 58.

  • 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 2 0 0
FY2009 0 0 1
FY2010 10 0 0
FY2011 4 1 0
FY2012 8 0 0
FY2013 6 0 0
FY2014 12 0 1
FY2015 18 0 6
FY2016 38 0 1
FY2017 11 0 0
FY2018 56 0 2
FY2019 14 0 0
FY2020 25 0 0
FY2021 35 0 1
FY2022 41 1 4
FY2023 22 2 0
FY2024 22 0 1
FY2025 27 0 0
FY2026 35 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 253. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22245-16192 2023-09-18 certified Senior Software Engineer - Payment Instruments & Processing, WA $144,200
A-22245-16233 2023-09-07 certified SRE Manager – Reliability Engineering, WA $206,482
A-22126-51398 2023-08-30 certified Lead Manager Decision Scientist – Test and Learn - Customer, WA $186,640
A-22125-50728 2023-08-23 certified Application Developer Sr (Engineer Sr) – Retail Techno. Support & Sustain, WA $148,530
A-22216-00241 2023-08-11 certified Sr Project Manager - Program Management, WA $142,100
A-22236-10909 2023-08-07 certified Data Engineer Sr – BI – Platform Service – D, WA $140,270
A-22245-16169 2023-08-03 certified SDET Sr – CXE – Build Engineering and Automation, WA $137,835
A-22221-02799 2023-07-20 certified Application Developer II - Retail Techn. Support & Sustain, WA $117,605
The other 17
A-22226-05504 2023-06-12 certified Architect Lead - Enterprise Architecture, WA $185,400
A-22125-50624 2023-06-01 certified App. Developer Sr – Supply Chain Operations – Engineering, WA $144,820
A-22108-41983 2023-06-01 certified Application Developer Sr - POS Tech Data Visual. & Analytics, WA $150,485
A-22096-36305 2023-05-31 certified Sr Data Scientist - AI/ML Solutions - Retail, WA $163,263
A-22096-36302 2023-05-31 certified Sr Project Manager - Solution Delivery - Program Management, WA $153,830
A-22091-34241 2023-05-31 denied Engineer Sr - Marketing Technology, WA n/a
A-22070-23476 2023-05-31 denied Senior Technical Product Manager – Digital Payments Platform, WA $153,385
A-22195-88249 2023-05-23 certified Engineer II - ST - Customer Relationship Management Tech, WA $126,500
A-22196-89115 2023-05-23 certified Information Secur. Engineer Sr - Global Cybersecurity Srvcs, WA $145,314
A-22053-14334 2023-02-21 certified Software QA Assurance Analyst Sr – Retail Payments, WA $120,000
A-22027-03527 2023-02-21 certified Systems Analyst Sr – ST – Business Systems Development – SCO, WA $126,460
A-22045-10984 2023-02-21 certified Application Developer Sr- BI - Platform Services – D, WA $153,700
A-22053-14326 2023-02-21 certified Systems Analyst Sr - Global Transportation, WA $122,325
A-22108-42014 2023-02-17 certified Application Developer II - IT PRO Solutions, WA $145,000
A-22091-34276 2023-01-06 certified SDET – Partner Technology, WA $119,350
A-21292-60103 2022-10-13 certified Quality Assurance Analyst Sr – MyDaily, WA $127,500
A-21229-32326 2022-08-25 certified Store Designer, NY $107,940

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 225
  • Canada 9
  • China 5
  • Mexico 2
  • Vietnam 2
  • Chile 1

Worker's education

  • Bachelor's 133
  • Master's 115
  • Other 4
  • None 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 235
  • H-4 6
  • F-1 3
  • L-1 3
  • TN 2
  • E-2 1

Schools

  • ANNA UNIVERSITY 12
  • UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS 9
  • OSMANIA UNIVERSITY 8
  • ANNA UNIVERSITY CHENNAI 5
  • BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY 5
  • UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 5

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 30
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 30
  • ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 22
  • MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 14
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 13
  • APPLIED COMPUTER SCIENCE 12

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, 27 of 85. 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 85 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 428. 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 84 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 WA. 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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