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PERM sponsor, #79 of 70,985 by filings

TikTok Inc.

TikTok Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 200 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 13, 2026. TikTok Inc. has 124 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers · 54% of its filings
Main worksite
San Jose, CA · 64% of its filings
Industry
Software Publishers · NAICS 51321

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Filings

446

#79 of 70,985

Certified

363

0 denied

Approval

100.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$184,300

offered, per year

Median days

462

4 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 704 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

124

of 704 tracked cases. The other 580 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed December 10, 2024, 22 months ago.

Where those 124 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
12198%

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

RECONSIDERATION APPEALS
32%

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 704 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 704, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 19, 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. September 10 DOL certified 27 of its cases
  2. September 9 DOL certified 10 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.

  • G-100-26286-297684 Software Engineer, Frontend filed 2026-10-13 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26286-298399 Software Engineer, Frontend filed 2026-10-13 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26281-288869 Senior Backend Software Engineer – Trust and Safety filed 2026-10-08 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26281-288902 Senior Backend Software Engineer – Trust and Safety filed 2026-10-08 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26281-288912 Senior Backend Software Engineer – Trust and Safety filed 2026-10-08 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26281-289033 Senior Software Engineer filed 2026-10-08 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26281-289227 Software Engineer, Mobile Audio and Video filed 2026-10-08 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26281-289417 Senior Software Engineer filed 2026-10-08 · ANALYST REVIEW

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. TikTok Inc.

    median of 66 decisions in the last 90 days

    296 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)
446 published
124 pending
$184,300 median, n=446
Prevailing wage requests
420 published
29 pending
$150,051 median, n=411
H-1B labor condition applications
2,926 published
1 pending
$200,000 median, n=2,925

Its median H-1B wage is $200,000 across 2,925 LCAs, 8.5% higher than its median PERM wage of $184,300 across 446 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 124 pending PERM cases, 3 (2.4%) sit outside DOL's normal queue: 3 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 TikTok Inc., newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.

Wage requests

All wage requests by this employer

H-1B LCAs

  • I-200-26288-303464 Backend Software Eng, TT Multimedia Arch Creation Platform 2026-10-15 · IN PROCESS
  • I-200-26281-289948 Senior Software Engineer (Backend/Fullstack)-Trust & Safety 2026-10-08 · CERTIFIED
  • I-200-26280-286970 Sr Backend Software Engineer, TikTok Privacy 2026-10-07 · CERTIFIED
  • I-200-26279-283721 Software Engineer 2026-10-06 · CERTIFIED
  • I-200-26279-283320 Software Engineer, TikTok LIVE - Foundation -Governance 2026-10-06 · 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: 2,926 LCAs filed by TikTok Inc., 2,826 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

2,514 positions for new employment, 1,125 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 2,514 · 61%
  • Change of employer 7e 1,125 · 27%
  • Continuing 7b 357 · 9%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 15 · 1%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 114 · 3%

Shares of the 4,125 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 518 · 19%
  • Level II 731 · 26%
  • Level III 600 · 22%
  • Level IV 921 · 33%

Shares of the 2,770 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; 56 of 2,826 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
Yes
Found a willful violator
No

As answered on its newest LCA, filed June 22, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 2,787 of 2,819 LCAs, and a willful violator on 2 of 2,879. 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 2,879 · E-3 (Australia) 22 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 25. 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 363 decided PERM cases

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

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    200 filed in the last 12 months

    At the top of the 13,946 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    1,279 certified in the last 24 months

    At the top of the 27,903 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    12% of 2,685 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 42% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    50% of 1,377 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 66% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    97.6% of 1,480 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 38% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

Also on its record

  • Its newest LCA that answered declared it H-1B dependent (decided 2026-06-29).
  • It declared itself a willful violator on 2 LCAs.
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

462 daysahead of 54%

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 268 and 1,373 filings.

Their median wait
461 days
This one
462 days

This one sits 1 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 79 of 70,985 by volume: 78 filed at least as many filings, and 70,906 filed no more.

Just above
Optum Services, Inc. 448 filings
Just below
PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory Services LLC 441 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 · 240 filings, 54% of everything they file · 100.0% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 386 of 446 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

Software Publishers

NAICS 51321, 511210, 513210, 51121 · 437 filings

  • Computer Systems Design and Related Services 541519
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 348
  • Washington 91
  • New York 5
  • District of Columbia 1
  • Texas 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 5 states cover 446 of 446 filings.

Where the work is

  • San Jose, CA 285
  • Bellevue, WA 91
  • Culver City, CA 37
  • Mountain View, CA 24
  • New York, NY 4
  • San Francisco, CA 2
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 443 of 446 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Farrell LLP 442 filings · 100.0% approved
  2. Chun Fruto Law Corporation 4 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 446 of 446 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Mercury News

    246 cases

  2. The Seattle Times

    63 cases

  3. Los Angeles Times

    36 cases

  4. The New York Times

    4 cases

  5. San Francisco Chronicle

    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. The employer's website

    351 cases

  2. Local or ethnic newspapers

    351 cases

  3. Radio or TV ads

    351 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

    0.0%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    25%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    40%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    35%

  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 2021

518 PERM decisions from FY2021 to FY2026, busiest in FY2026 with 236.

  • 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
FY2021 7 0 0
FY2022 32 0 2
FY2023 29 0 2
FY2024 99 0 7
FY2025 56 0 48
FY2026 208 0 28

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 72. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22291-41823 2023-09-29 certified Business Operations Protection Lead, Network Security, NY $232,001
A-22216-00634 2023-07-28 certified Data Engineer, Data Platform, CA $165,000
A-22175-78022 2023-07-14 certified Software Engineer, TikTok I, CA $130,894
A-22199-90390 2023-07-14 certified Backend Tech Lead Manager, CA $240,000
A-22168-74178 2023-05-18 certified Software Engineer, Frontend, WA $147,000
A-22181-81786 2023-04-13 certified Software Engineer, Backend, CA $220,000
A-22181-81927 2023-04-03 certified Software Engineer, Backend, CA $220,000
A-22145-61301 2023-03-13 certified Software Engineer, Data Platform, CA $200,000
The other 17
A-22143-59539 2023-03-07 certified Product Specialist, CA $135,000
A-22143-59588 2023-03-06 certified Technical Program Manager, CA $187,000
A-22097-37733 2023-02-24 certified Sr. Software Development Engineer in Test, CA $215,000
A-22104-41107 2023-02-24 certified Backend Software Engineer, CA $156,000
A-22097-37801 2023-02-24 certified Full Stack Engineer, TikTok, CA $244,800
A-22103-40543 2023-02-24 certified Software Engineer III, CA $160,000
A-22138-57338 2023-02-21 certified Machine Learning Engineer, Comment, CA $235,000
A-22138-57388 2023-02-21 certified Data Engineer, Data Platform, CA $165,000
A-22104-41117 2023-02-21 certified Software Engineer - Core Services, CA $180,000
A-22173-76467 2023-02-14 withdrawn Software Engineer, TikTok I, CA $130,894
A-22109-43048 2023-01-20 certified Frontend Engineer, CA $160,000
A-22116-46490 2023-01-20 certified Machine Learning Engineer, CA $190,000
A-22076-27026 2023-01-11 certified Software Engineer, TikTok Backend, CA $140,000
A-22229-07813 2022-12-02 withdrawn Quality Analyst, US Safety, CA $124,467
A-21313-70508 2022-11-17 certified Software Engineer, Big Data, CA $160,000
A-22006-94829 2022-11-16 certified Machine Learning Engineer - Trust & Safety, CA $200,000
A-21349-86957 2022-11-03 certified Senior Data Engineer, CA $170,000

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

  • China 52
  • India 15
  • Brazil 1
  • Canada 1
  • Indonesia 1
  • Iran 1

Worker's education

  • Master's 61
  • Bachelor's 10
  • Doctorate 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 71
  • F-1 1

Schools

  • CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY 7
  • COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 5
  • THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY 4
  • UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 3
  • INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 2
  • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 2

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 25
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 9
  • ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING 5
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 3
  • DATA SCIENCE 3
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 2

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 entry 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 #79 counts this page's cases only.

106 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, 240 of 446. 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 446 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 79. 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 363 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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