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PERM sponsor, #1,077 of 70,985 by filings

University of Pittsburgh

University of Pittsburgh sponsors green cards: it filed 12 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 14, 2026. University of Pittsburgh has 8 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Clinical Research Coordinators · 5% of its filings
Main worksite
Pittsburgh, PA · 100% of its filings
Industry
Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools · NAICS 611310

Waiting on a case with University of Pittsburgh?

  • When it'll likely be decided
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This rate is level with the field

Over 37 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 9.4% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

38

#1,077 of 70,985

Certified

37

0 denied

Approval

100.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$82,952

offered, per year

Median days

470

4 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 43 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

8

of 43 tracked cases. The other 35 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed May 7, 2025, 17 months ago.

Where those 8 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
788%

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

RECONSIDERATION APPEALS
113%

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 43 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 43, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 19, 2026

Follow University of Pittsburgh

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

Nothing employer-wide since this site's record began on August 27, 2026.

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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-100-26287-301210 Assistant Professor of Economics filed 2026-10-14 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26287-301227 Assistant Professor of Economics filed 2026-10-14 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26272-267973 Teaching Assistant Professor of Statistics filed 2026-09-29 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26268-262049 Asst Professor- Computer & Information Systems & Technology filed 2026-09-25 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-300-26204-119767 Tenure-Stream Assistant Professor position in Finance filed 2026-07-23 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26146-947525 Software Developer filed 2026-05-26 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26078-715561 Teaching Associate Professor- Computing and Information filed 2026-03-19 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-25337-453383 Assistant Professor of Economics filed 2025-12-03 · CERTIFIED

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. University of Pittsburgh

    median of 5 decisions in the last 90 days

    303 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)
38 published
8 pending
$82,952 median, n=38
Prevailing wage requests
93 published
6 pending
$65,042 median, n=85
H-1B labor condition applications
1,997 published
5 pending
$65,000 median, n=1,992

Its median H-1B wage is $65,000 across 1,992 LCAs, 21.6% lower than its median PERM wage of $82,952 across 38 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 8 pending PERM cases, 1 (13%) sit outside DOL's normal queue: 1 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, 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 University of Pittsburgh, newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.

Wage requests

  • P-100-26202-115186 Software Developer, Oracle Applications 2026-07-21 · IN PROCESS
  • P-100-26201-110336 Teaching Asst Prof-Urban Studies (Transportation Infra) 2026-07-20 · IN PROCESS
  • P-100-26201-110288 Teaching Asst Prof-Urban Studies (Transportation Infra) 2026-07-20 · IN PROCESS
  • P-100-26197-104560 Assistant Professor 2026-07-16 · IN PROCESS
  • P-100-26187-080420 Teaching Assistant Professor, Geographic Information Systems 2026-07-06 · RFI ISSUED

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.

Likely cap-exempt, by inference. 66% of its coded PERM filings name NAICS 611310 (Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools), and colleges hire H-1B workers outside the lottery (8 U.S.C. 1184(g)(5)(A)). Whether this employer qualifies is USCIS's call.

What its H-1B LCAs were for

From DOL's quarterly LCA files: 1,997 LCAs filed by University of Pittsburgh, 1,843 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

888 positions for new employment, 134 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 888 · 48%
  • Change of employer 7e 134 · 7%
  • Continuing 7b 584 · 32%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 30 · 2%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 69 · 4%
  • Amended petition 7f 143 · 8%

Shares of the 1,843 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 1,329 · 77%
  • Level II 193 · 11%
  • Level III 115 · 7%
  • Level IV 80 · 5%

Shares of the 1,717 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; 126 of 1,843 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 1,871 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 1,986. 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 1,986 · E-3 (Australia) 8 · H-1B1 (Chile) 3. 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 37 decided PERM cases

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

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    12 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 92% of the 13,946 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    477 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 99% of the 27,903 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    7.2% of 568 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 27% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    9.9% of 464 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 26% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    98.2% of 664 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 45% 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

470 daysahead of 43%

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 36 and 40 filings.

Their median wait
465 days
This one
470 days

This one sits 5 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 1,077 of 70,985 by volume: 1,076 filed at least as many filings, and 69,908 filed no more.

Just above
AVANSA IT SOLUTIONS, LLC. 38 filings
Just below
Bank of China 38 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 Clinical Research Coordinators, 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

Clinical Research Coordinators

SOC 11-9121.01 · 2 filings, 5% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 12 of 38 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

Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

NAICS 611310, 6113, 61131 · 38 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

  • Pennsylvania 38
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. This state covers 38 of 38 filings.

Where the work is

  • Pittsburgh, PA 38
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. This city covers 38 of 38 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Dentons Cohen & Grigsby P.C 27 filings
  2. McCandlish Holton, PC 7 filings
  3. Sostrin Immigration Lawyers, LLP 2 filings
  4. Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP 1 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 37 of 38 filings, 97% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

    15 cases

  2. Pittsburg Post-Gazette

    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. The employer's website

    15 cases

  2. Job search websites

    15 cases

  3. Local or ethnic newspapers

    15 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

    40%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    27%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    20%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    13%

  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

204 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2008 with 19.

  • 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 16 0 3
FY2009 9 1 5
FY2010 16 2 1
FY2011 7 0 1
FY2012 12 1 0
FY2013 8 0 0
FY2014 11 0 1
FY2015 8 0 0
FY2016 5 0 0
FY2017 3 0 0
FY2018 11 0 2
FY2019 10 0 0
FY2020 6 0 0
FY2021 13 0 1
FY2022 8 0 0
FY2023 5 0 0
FY2024 14 0 1
FY2025 16 0 0
FY2026 7 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 64. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22228-06667 2023-08-28 certified Assistant Instructor in Korean Studies, PA $56,256
A-22206-94169 2023-08-08 certified Data Analyst, PA $63,542
A-22227-06024 2023-08-07 certified Project and Implementation Manager, PA $76,440
A-22180-80887 2023-04-12 certified Biostatistician, PA $57,026
A-21284-56942 2022-12-15 certified Associate Director for the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studie, PA $78,874
A-22021-01168 2022-09-27 certified Research Software Engineer, PA $118,539
A-21280-55566 2022-05-31 certified Oracle Application Developer, PA $85,000
A-21228-32082 2022-02-24 certified Assistant Professor, PA $125,000
The other 17
A-21174-05954 2022-02-11 certified Scientific Data Director, PA $62,816
A-21202-20667 2022-02-10 certified Assistant Professor, PA $135,000
A-20255-98610 2021-12-23 certified Lecturer, Urban Studies Program, PA $48,000
A-21110-76022 2021-11-16 certified Project Coordinator/Researcher IV, PA $55,000
A-21141-90253 2021-11-15 certified Assistant Professor of Political Science, PA $85,000
A-20317-20583 2021-09-24 certified Assistant Professor - Information Systems and Technology Management, PA $180,000
A-21063-58525 2021-08-20 certified Assistant Professor of Economics, PA $132,000
A-20342-30206 2021-08-04 certified Assistant Professor, PA $120,600
A-20325-23718 2021-08-04 certified Assistant Professor - Econometrics, PA $135,000
A-21011-40986 2021-07-02 certified Assistant Instructor of Chinese, PA $52,904
A-20287-09715 2021-06-10 certified Language Coordinator of Swahili, PA $47,423
A-20084-34661 2021-05-25 certified Assistant Instructor of Arabic, PA $41,500
A-20288-10463 2021-05-14 certified Data Analyst, PA $56,817
A-20256-98839 2021-05-04 certified Assistant Professor, PA $86,000
A-20219-85693 2021-05-04 certified Assistant Professor, PA $86,000
A-20188-73054 2021-05-03 certified Assistant Professor of Research Methodology, PA $84,050
A-19035-69416 2021-04-06 certified Senior Researcher/Lab Manager, PA $51,491

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 14
  • China 13
  • Iran 6
  • Canada 4
  • South Korea 4
  • Egypt 3

Worker's education

  • Doctorate 37
  • Master's 22
  • Other 3
  • Bachelor's 2

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 59
  • F-1 3
  • J-1 2

Schools

  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH 11
  • CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY 2
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY 2
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA 2
  • UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 2
  • UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA 2

Fields of study

  • BIOSTATISTICS 3
  • BIOINFORMATICS 2
  • BIOLOGY 2
  • BUSINESS/OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT 2
  • ECONOMICS 2
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 2

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 Clinical Research Coordinators, 2 of 38. 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 38 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 1,077. 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 37 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 PA. 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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