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PERM sponsor, #949 of 70,985 by filings

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated sponsors green cards: it filed 19 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 9, 2026. Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated has 19 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Computer Systems Analysts · 12% of its filings
Main worksite
Boston, MA · 90% of its filings
Industry
Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences · NAICS 54171

Waiting on a case with Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated?

  • When it'll likely be decided
  • An email when DOL moves it

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This rate is level with the field

Over 41 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 8.6% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

42

#949 of 70,985

Certified

41

0 denied

Approval

100.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$134,098

offered, per year

Median days

475

9 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 59 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

19

of 59 tracked cases. The other 40 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed July 19, 2024, 27 months ago.

Where those 19 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
1684%

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

BALCA APPEALS
211%

The case is with the Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals, a panel of DOL administrative law judges. They review the record the officer already had, so it's legal argument rather than a fresh chance to put in evidence.

RECONSIDERATION APPEALS
15%

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 59 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 59, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 23, 2026

Follow Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated

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-100-26282-292354 Analytical Development Principal Research Associate filed 2026-10-09 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26280-284821 Analytical Development Principal Research Associate filed 2026-10-07 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26279-283930 Process Engineering Senior Specialist filed 2026-10-06 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26252-223313 Director, Information Systems Management filed 2026-09-09 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26252-223417 Process Dev Engineering Principal Scientific Associate filed 2026-09-09 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26226-168965 Facilities Engineering Senior Specialist filed 2026-08-14 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26226-168815 Automation Engineer filed 2026-08-14 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26201-111022 Supply Chain Manager filed 2026-07-20 · 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. Every employer

    median of 31,881 decisions in the same 90 days

    301 days

Only 4 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 79,585 cases, and would be decided around March 20, 2027 (between February 28, 2027 and April 29, 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)
42 published
19 pending
$134,098 median, n=42
Prevailing wage requests
62 published
10 pending
$111,238 median, n=58
H-1B labor condition applications
958 published
5 pending
$119,496 median, n=956

Its median H-1B wage is $119,496 across 956 LCAs, 10.9% lower than its median PERM wage of $134,098 across 42 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 19 pending PERM cases, 3 (16%) 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, 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 Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated, newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.

Wage requests

  • P-100-26273-269805 Medical Writing Science Senior Manager 2026-09-30 · IN PROCESS
  • P-100-26264-249314 Manufacturing Science and Technology Senior Scientist 2026-09-21 · IN PROCESS
  • P-100-26253-226979 Business Engagement & Technology Senior Principal Analyst 2026-09-10 · IN PROCESS
  • P-100-26251-220867 Chemistry Manufacturing Controls Manager 2026-09-08 · IN PROCESS
  • P-100-26237-192310 Formulation Principal Research Associate 2026-08-25 · IN PROCESS

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: 958 LCAs filed by Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated, 925 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

298 positions for new employment, 225 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 298 · 32%
  • Change of employer 7e 225 · 24%
  • Continuing 7b 239 · 26%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 36 · 4%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 1 · 1%
  • Amended petition 7f 132 · 14%

Shares of the 925 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 83 · 9%
  • Level II 220 · 24%
  • Level III 217 · 24%
  • Level IV 398 · 43%

Shares of the 918 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; 7 of 925 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 16, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 920 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 950. 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 950 · E-3 (Australia) 6 · 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 41 decided PERM cases

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

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    19 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 95% of the 14,035 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    311 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 99% of the 27,861 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    20% of 361 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 64% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    72% of 359 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 86% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    98.3% of 235 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 47% 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

475 daysahead of 36%

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 44 filings.

Their median wait
462 days
This one
475 days

This one sits 13 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 949 of 70,985 by volume: 948 filed at least as many filings, and 70,036 filed no more.

Just above
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP 42 filings
Just below
San Diego State University 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 Computer Systems Analysts, 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

Computer Systems Analysts

SOC 15-1211.00 · 5 filings, 12% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 23 of 42 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

Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences

NAICS 54171 · 19 filings

  • Scientific Research and Development Services 541714
  • Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (Census group 54171) 5417109
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

  • Massachusetts 38
  • Rhode Island 3
  • California 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 42 of 42 filings.

Where the work is

  • Boston, MA 38
  • Providence, RI 3
  • San Diego, CA 1
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 3 cities cover 42 of 42 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Berry Appleman and Leiden LLP 42 filings · 100.0% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 42 of 42 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Boston Globe

    25 cases

  2. Boston Sunday Globe

    4 cases

  3. Providence Journal

    3 cases

  4. The San Diego Union-Tribune

    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

    33 cases

  2. Job search websites

    33 cases

  3. Local or ethnic newspapers

    33 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

    21%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    12%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    24%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    42%

  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

211 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2021 with 23.

  • 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 5 0 1
FY2009 8 0 1
FY2010 12 0 0
FY2011 10 0 0
FY2012 13 0 0
FY2013 11 0 0
FY2014 7 0 0
FY2015 6 0 1
FY2016 12 0 0
FY2017 6 0 0
FY2018 4 0 0
FY2019 15 0 0
FY2020 4 0 0
FY2021 23 0 0
FY2022 13 0 0
FY2023 17 0 0
FY2024 11 0 0
FY2025 13 0 1
FY2026 17 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 94. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22276-32452 2023-08-28 certified Sr. Manager, Managed Markets Pricing & Contracting Analytics, MA $155,000
A-22208-95943 2023-08-22 certified Patient Safety Systems Senior Analyst, MA $48,838
A-22208-95905 2023-08-09 certified Chemistry Manufacturing Controls Senior Manager, MA $124,426
A-22201-91667 2023-07-17 certified Senior Statistical Programmer II, MA $97,614
A-22194-87926 2023-07-17 certified Sr. Statistical Programmer II, MA $96,000
A-22194-87748 2023-07-17 certified Senior Statistical Programmer II, MA $96,000
A-22234-09683 2023-07-13 certified Senior Statistical Programmer II, MA $97,614
A-22161-69746 2023-06-14 certified Pharmacology Senior Research Associate, MA $59,000
The other 17
A-22201-91852 2023-05-31 certified Senior Statistical Programmer II, MA $97,614
A-22201-91700 2023-05-18 certified Senior Statistical Programmer II, MA $97,614
A-22160-69384 2023-05-01 certified Analytical Development Research Scientist, CA $81,000
A-22161-69911 2023-05-01 certified Senior Statistical Programmer II, MA $81,000
A-22160-69282 2023-04-13 certified Regulatory Strategy Manager, MA $96,000
A-22010-95741 2022-12-02 certified Formulation Research Scientist I, MA $100,797
A-22040-09677 2022-12-02 certified Business Engagement & Technology Senior Analyst II, MA $122,699
A-21342-83369 2022-11-28 certified Principal Statistical Programmer, MA $112,000
A-21355-89196 2022-10-25 certified Principal Biostatistician, MA $112,000
A-21333-78724 2022-07-15 certified Sr. Statistical Programmer II, MA $96,000
A-21298-62801 2022-05-25 certified Principal Biostatistician, MA $112,000
A-21298-62957 2022-05-23 certified Technical Operations Drug Substance Senior Specialist, MA $86,424
A-21298-62980 2022-05-23 certified Senior Statistical Programmer II, MA $96,000
A-21277-53708 2022-05-18 certified Research Scientist I, MA $81,000
A-21285-57528 2022-05-18 certified Senior Research Scientist, MA $112,000
A-21238-36511 2022-03-21 certified Sr. Statistical Programmer II, MA $128,983
A-21229-32474 2022-03-21 certified Serialization Manager, Technical Operations, MA $128,983

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 44
  • China 25
  • Canada 9
  • United Kingdom 4
  • Taiwan 2
  • Cyprus 1

Worker's education

  • Master's 47
  • Doctorate 30
  • Bachelor's 16
  • Other 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 83
  • L-1 4
  • TN 3
  • F-1 2
  • NOT IN USA 1
  • O-1 1

Schools

  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY 8
  • DREXEL UNIVERSITY 3
  • JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 3
  • BOSTON UNIVERSITY 2
  • BROWN UNIVERSITY 2
  • DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY 2

Fields of study

  • BIOSTATISTICS 10
  • CHEMICAL ENGINEERING 7
  • CHEMISTRY 5
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 3
  • STATISTICS 3
  • BIOCHEMISTRY PER U.S. ACADEMIC EVALUATION 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 5 entries 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 #949 counts this page's cases only.

30 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 Computer Systems Analysts, 5 of 42. 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 42 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 949. 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 41 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 MA. 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 23, 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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