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PERM sponsor, #26 of 70,985 by filings

Tesla, Inc.

Tesla, Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 511 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 15, 2026. Tesla, Inc. has 368 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers · 18% of its filings
Main worksite
Fremont, CA · 45% of its filings
Industry
Automobile and Light Duty Motor Vehicle Manufacturing · NAICS 336110

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Filings

1,108

#26 of 70,985

Certified

1,076

3 denied

Approval

99.7%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$147,579

offered, per year

Median days

416

50 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 1,585 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

368

of 1,585 tracked cases. The other 1,217 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed February 5, 2025, 20 months ago.

Where those 368 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
36399%

A Department of Labor analyst has the application. This is the main queue, and it is where most pending PERM cases sit.

RECONSIDERATION APPEALS
51%

The employer has asked the same officer who denied the case to look at it again, within 30 days of the denial. The request can only use documents DOL already had, so new evidence can't be added to fix what the denial was based on.

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 1,585 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 1,585, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 18, 2026

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An email when DOL moves its cases as a group: five or more on or off hold in a day, or a batch decided well above its usual pace.

What DOL has done to its cases as a group

  1. October 6 DOL certified 26 of its cases
  2. September 10 DOL certified 21 of its cases
  3. September 9 DOL certified 27 of its cases
  4. August 28 DOL certified 22 of its cases

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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 Tesla, 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.

  • April 23, 2024, 2,688 employees, Travis, effective April 19, 2024. Texas WARN report Austin

How long it takes

How long their cases are taking

  1. Tesla, Inc.

    median of 198 decisions in the last 90 days

    299 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 80,983 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)
1,108 published
368 pending
$147,579 median, n=1,107
Prevailing wage requests
2,860 published
262 pending
$132,990 median, n=2,750
H-1B labor condition applications
12,470 published
56 pending
$143,374 median, n=12,457

Its median H-1B wage is $143,374 across 12,457 LCAs, 2.8% lower than its median PERM wage of $147,579 across 1,107 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.

Of its 368 pending PERM cases, 5 (1.4%) sit outside DOL's normal queue: 5 under appeal. Where that sits among every employer.

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; 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 Tesla, 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: 12,470 LCAs filed by Tesla, Inc., 11,869 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

5,095 positions for new employment, 2,509 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 5,095 · 39%
  • Change of employer 7e 2,509 · 19%
  • Continuing 7b 3,966 · 30%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 202 · 2%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 1 · 1%
  • Amended petition 7f 1,452 · 11%

Shares of the 13,219 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 672 · 8%
  • Level II 3,360 · 41%
  • Level III 2,730 · 33%
  • Level IV 1,454 · 18%

Shares of the 8,216 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; 3,653 of 11,869 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 30, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 11,342 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 12,016. 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 12,001 · E-3 (Australia) 426 · H-1B1 (Chile) 6 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 37. 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

    99.7% of 1,079 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 32% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    511 filed in the last 12 months

    At the top of the 13,942 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    5,072 certified in the last 24 months

    At the top of the 27,916 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    14% of 6,990 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 48% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    45% of 4,329 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 61% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    96.8% of 4,581 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 28% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

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

Approval rate

99.7%ahead of 32%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

416 daysahead of 82%

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 85 sponsors ranked nearest filed between 416 and 6,875 filings.

Their median wait
461 days
This one
416 days

This one sits 45 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 26 of 70,985 by volume: 25 filed at least as many filings, and 70,959 filed no more.

Just above
LinkedIn Corporation 1,211 filings
Just below
Conexus MedStaff LLC 1,091 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 · 200 filings, 18% of everything they file · 100.0% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 572 of 1,108 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

Automobile and Light Duty Motor Vehicle Manufacturing

NAICS 336110, 33611 · 730 filings

  • Automobile Manufacturing 336111378
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 778
  • Texas 214
  • Nevada 85
  • Washington 16
  • Utah 6
  • Minnesota 3
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 1,102 of 1,108 filings.

Where the work is

  • Fremont, CA 504
  • Palo Alto, CA 223
  • Austin, TX 212
  • Sparks, NV 85
  • Lathrop, CA 27
  • Bellevue, WA 16
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 1,067 of 1,108 filings.

Who files for them

  1. MEHLMAN JACOBS LLP 708 filings · 99.7% approved
  2. EY Law LLP 398 filings · 99.7% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 1,106 of 1,108 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Mercury News

    513 cases

  2. Austin American-Statesman

    179 cases

  3. Reno Gazette Journal

    58 cases

  4. The Seattle Times

    14 cases

  5. The Sacramento Bee

    11 cases

  6. The Stockton Record

    8 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

    810 cases

  2. Job search websites

    809 cases

  3. Campus placement offices

    405 cases

  4. Radio or TV ads

    399 cases

  5. On-campus recruiting

    3 cases

  6. Trade or professional organizations

    3 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

    17%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    41%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    19%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    23%

  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 2017

2,026 PERM decisions from FY2017 to FY2026, busiest in FY2025 with 405.

  • 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
FY2017 23 0 1
FY2018 199 0 1
FY2019 118 0 0
FY2020 205 0 5
FY2021 137 2 2
FY2022 161 1 3
FY2023 52 1 7
FY2024 283 2 23
FY2025 400 0 5
FY2026 393 1 1

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 918. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22196-89046 2023-09-28 withdrawn Senior Software Development Engineer, CA $143,880
A-22115-45725 2023-09-20 certified Senior Database Administrator, CA $145,000
A-22125-51058 2023-08-31 certified Staff Mechanical Design Engineer, CA $155,200
A-22181-81691 2023-08-09 withdrawn Staff Sourcing Engineer, CA $159,837
A-22294-44086 2023-08-02 withdrawn Software Development Engineer, CA $132,870
A-23066-09852 2023-08-02 withdrawn Staff Software Product Manager, CA $248,768
A-22126-51709 2023-08-01 certified Test Engineer, CA $107,608
A-22235-10324 2023-06-28 withdrawn Staff Designer - UI/UX, CA $178,500
The other 17
A-23109-29627 2023-05-30 withdrawn Senior Software Product Manager, CA $149,002
A-21287-58867 2023-05-12 denied Senior Software Engineer, CA $133,527
A-22161-70129 2023-05-04 certified Senior Technical Program Manager (Manufacturing Engineering), TX $150,000
A-22132-54352 2023-04-10 certified Manager, Purchasing, CA $179,118
A-22131-53862 2023-04-07 certified Senior Software Development Engineer, CA $142,500
A-22130-53132 2023-04-07 certified Software Development Engineer, CA $123,000
A-22130-52986 2023-04-07 certified Software Development Engineer, CA $136,500
A-22131-53920 2023-04-07 certified Senior Technical Program Manager, CA $143,932
A-22131-53701 2023-04-07 certified Associate Manager, Process Engineering, CA $143,932
A-22124-50567 2023-03-28 certified Senior EHS Specialist, CA $115,000
A-22125-51012 2023-03-28 certified Senior Software Development Engineer, CA $157,000
A-22124-50490 2023-03-28 certified Staff Software Applications Engineer, CA $170,500
A-22069-22554 2023-03-27 certified Staff Process Engineer, CA $150,000
A-22138-57129 2023-02-28 certified Staff Mechanical Design Engineer, CA $145,000
A-22138-57054 2023-02-28 certified Senior Mechanical Design Engineer, CA $121,547
A-22117-46995 2023-01-30 certified Staff Manufacturing Controls Engineer, CA $149,089
A-22040-09628 2023-01-19 certified Senior Software Development Engineer, WA $127,225

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 489
  • China 100
  • Canada 93
  • Mexico 76
  • Australia 34
  • Germany 17

Worker's education

  • Master's 546
  • Bachelor's 318
  • Other 25
  • Doctorate 16
  • None 12
  • High School 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 837
  • L-1 34
  • E-3 21
  • O-1 8
  • TN 5
  • H-4 4

Schools

  • PURDUE UNIVERSITY 24
  • UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 22
  • NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY 20
  • TEXAS AM UNIVERSITY 18
  • UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO 16
  • STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO 14

Fields of study

  • MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 149
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 89
  • INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING 74
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 68
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 60
  • ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 42

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, 200 of 1,108. 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 1,108 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 26. 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 1,079 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 18, 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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