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PERM sponsor, #938 of 70,985 by filings

University of Wisconsin System

Main job
Economics Teachers, Post secondary · 16% of its filings
Main worksite
Madison, WI · 58% of its filings
Industry
Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools · NAICS 611310

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This rate is level with the field

Over 43 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 15.5% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

43

#938 of 70,985

Certified

41

2 denied

Approval

95.3%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$95,000

offered, per year

Median days

397

69 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.

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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.

Fewer than five of its PERM cases are pending as of October 19, 2026, and the census that draws this bar starts at five.

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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How long it takes

How long their cases are taking

  1. Every employer

    median of 28,615 decisions in the same 90 days

    302 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 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)
43 published
no live read
$95,000 median, n=43
Prevailing wage requests
0 published
0 pending
no wage published
H-1B labor condition applications
1,670 published
1 pending
$69,000 median, n=1,669

Its median H-1B wage is $69,000 across 1,669 LCAs, 27.4% lower than its median PERM wage of $95,000 across 43 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; 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 Wisconsin System, newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.

Wage requests

None confirmed yet.

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. 100% 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: 1,670 LCAs filed by University of Wisconsin System, 1,218 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

673 positions for new employment, 105 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 673 · 55%
  • Change of employer 7e 105 · 9%
  • Continuing 7b 317 · 26%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 44 · 4%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 18 · 1%
  • Amended petition 7f 65 · 5%

Shares of the 1,218 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 876 · 78%
  • Level II 161 · 14%
  • Level III 70 · 6%
  • Level IV 13 · 1%

Shares of the 1,120 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; 98 of 1,218 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 23, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 1,519 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 1,647. 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 1,647 · E-3 (Australia) 23. 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

    95.3% of 43 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 10% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

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

    298 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

    9.3% of 354 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 35% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    8.5% of 307 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 24% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

Approval rate

95.3%ahead of 10%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

397 daysahead of 90%

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 40 and 45 filings.

Their median wait
462 days
This one
397 days

This one sits 65 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 938 of 70,985 by volume: 937 filed at least as many filings, and 70,047 filed no more.

Just above
DENVER COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT AKA DENVER PUBLIC SC 43 filings
Just below
Amazon Dev Center U.S., Inc. 42 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 Economics Teachers, Post secondary, 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

Economics Teachers, Post secondary

SOC 25-1063 · 7 filings, 16% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 24 of 43 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 · 43 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

  • Wisconsin 43
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 43 of 43 filings.

Where the work is

  • Madison, WI 25
  • Green Bay, WI 3
  • Kenosha, WI 3
  • Platteville, WI 3
  • Eau Claire, WI 2
  • River Falls, WI 2
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 38 of 43 filings.

History

Year by year since 2019

125 PERM decisions from FY2019 to FY2024, busiest in FY2024 with 43.

  • certified
  • denied
  • withdrawn

Fiscal years, October to September. A year filed under another name is missing, not zero. FY2024 is partial: DOL's newest file runs through June 2026.

Every year as a table
Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn
FY2019 8 0 0
FY2020 17 1 0
FY2021 27 0 0
FY2022 16 0 1
FY2023 8 0 4
FY2024 41 2 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 82. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22235-10401 2023-09-07 certified Assistant Professor, WI $105,000
A-22266-27615 2023-08-28 certified Assistant Professor, WI $107,000
A-22032-05905 2023-07-17 certified Assistant Professor, WI $80,000
A-22039-09049 2023-07-17 certified Assistant Professor, WI $100,000
A-23068-11050 2023-03-10 withdrawn Assistant Clinical Professor, WI $79,123
A-22236-11420 2023-03-09 withdrawn Assistant Clinical Professor, WI $79,123
A-22235-10421 2023-03-09 withdrawn Assistant Clinical Professor, WI $79,123
A-22207-95200 2023-03-09 withdrawn Assistant Clinical Professor, WI $79,123
The other 17
A-21327-77044 2023-02-08 certified Assistant Professor, WI $105,000
A-21301-65178 2022-12-01 certified Assistant Professor, WI $79,000
A-21260-46412 2022-11-30 certified Assistant Professor, WI $101,960
A-21253-42727 2022-10-19 certified Assistant Professor, WI $51,000
A-21356-90029 2022-09-26 certified Assistant Professor, WI $120,000
A-21253-42712 2022-09-12 certified Assistant Professor, WI $63,000
A-21295-62137 2022-08-30 certified Assistant Professor, WI $95,000
A-21295-62073 2022-08-30 certified Assistant Professor, WI $113,000
A-21316-72327 2022-08-01 certified Assistant Professor, WI $77,000
A-21252-41938 2022-08-01 certified Assistant Professor, WI $73,000
A-21295-62125 2022-08-01 certified Assistant Professor, WI $80,000
A-21253-42732 2022-08-01 certified Assistant Professor, WI $126,000
A-21306-66799 2022-06-27 certified Assistant Professor, WI $130,000
A-21271-51083 2022-06-27 certified Assistant Professor, WI $102,000
A-21260-46376 2022-04-28 certified Assistant Professor, WI $115,000
A-21060-56995 2022-04-27 certified Assistant Professor, WI $62,000
A-21111-76729 2022-01-21 certified Assistant Professor, WI $57,000

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 20
  • India 16
  • Pakistan 6
  • Bangladesh 5
  • Turkey 4
  • Iran 3

Worker's education

  • Doctorate 76
  • Other 4
  • Master's 2

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 60
  • F-1 16
  • H-4 2

Schools

  • TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY 5
  • LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY 3
  • UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII 3
  • KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY 2
  • KENT STATE UNIVERSITY 2
  • KING EDWARD MEDICAL UNIVERSITY 2

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 8
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 5
  • MEDICINE 4
  • ECONOMICS 3
  • MARKETING 3
  • MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 3

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 Economics Teachers, Post secondary, 7 of 43. 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 43 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 938. 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 43 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 WI. 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

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.

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