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PERM sponsor, #81 of 70,985 by filings

VMware, Inc.

VMware, Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 16 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on July 13, 2026. VMware, Inc. has 9 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers · 44% of its filings
Main worksite
Palo Alto, CA · 90% of its filings
Industry
Custom Computer Programming Services · NAICS 541511

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Filings

435

#81 of 70,985

Certified

434

0 denied

Approval

100.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$151,316

offered, per year

Median days

453

13 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 258 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

9

of 258 tracked cases. The other 249 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed January 8, 2026, 9 months ago.

Where those 9 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
9100%

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

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 258 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 258, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 21, 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.

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. VMware, Inc.

    median of 6 decisions in the last 90 days

    300 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 30,289 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 80,222 cases, and would be decided around March 18, 2027 (between February 26, 2027 and April 27, 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)
435 published
9 pending
$151,316 median, n=434
Prevailing wage requests
940 published
1 pending
$135,304 median, n=940
H-1B labor condition applications
4,798 published
2 pending
$165,000 median, n=4,797

Its median H-1B wage is $165,000 across 4,797 LCAs, 9.0% higher than its median PERM wage of $151,316 across 434 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, 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 VMware, Inc., newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.

Wage requests

  • P-100-26203-119047 IT Applications Engineer 2026-07-22 · IN PROCESS
  • P-100-26021-578601 Client Services Consultant $198,702 per year 2026-01-21 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-26013-553777 R&D Engineer Software $264,514 per year 2026-01-13 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-25190-160708 Technology Product Management $166,794 per year 2025-07-08 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-25156-054416 Reliability Engineer $187,741 per year 2025-06-04 · DETERMINATION 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.

What its H-1B LCAs were for

From DOL's quarterly LCA files: 4,798 LCAs filed by VMware, Inc., 4,721 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

1,484 positions for new employment, 836 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 1,484 · 26%
  • Change of employer 7e 836 · 15%
  • Continuing 7b 1,153 · 20%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 1,748 · 31%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 7 · 1%
  • Amended petition 7f 477 · 8%

Shares of the 5,704 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 8 · 1%
  • Level II 1,362 · 35%
  • Level III 1,452 · 37%
  • Level IV 1,101 · 28%

Shares of the 3,923 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; 798 of 4,721 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 17, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 4,418 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 4,788. 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 4,786 · E-3 (Australia) 9 · H-1B1 (Chile) 1 · 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 434 decided PERM cases

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

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    16 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 94% of the 13,997 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    219 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 99% of the 27,902 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    5.2% of 1,070 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 21% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    96% of 111 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 99% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    98.2% of 650 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

453 daysahead of 64%

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 266 and 1,267 filings.

Their median wait
461 days
This one
453 days

This one sits 8 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 81 of 70,985 by volume: 80 filed at least as many filings, and 70,904 filed no more.

Just above
PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory Services LLC 441 filings
Just below
Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 429 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 · 191 filings, 44% of everything they file · 100.0% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 376 of 435 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

Custom Computer Programming Services

NAICS 541511 · 435 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

  • California 393
  • Texas 15
  • Massachusetts 10
  • Georgia 8
  • Washington 8
  • Colorado 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 6 states cover 435 of 435 filings.

Where the work is

  • Palo Alto, CA 392
  • Austin, TX 14
  • Boston, MA 9
  • Atlanta, GA 8
  • Bellevue, WA 8
  • Burlington, MA 1
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 432 of 435 filings.

Who files for them

  1. FRAGOMEN, DEL REY, BERNSEN & LOEWY, LLP 435 filings · 100.0% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 435 of 435 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Mercury News

    223 cases

  2. Austin American-Statesman

    7 cases

  3. Boston Sunday Globe

    5 cases

  4. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

    4 cases

  5. The Seattle Times

    3 cases

  6. The Dallas Morning News

    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. Job search websites

    243 cases

  2. Local or ethnic newspapers

    243 cases

  3. The employer's website

    242 cases

  4. Radio or TV ads

    1 cases

  5. Trade or professional organizations

    1 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

    0.4%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    0.0%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    19%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    81%

  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

3,481 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2020 with 384.

  • 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 45 1 0
FY2009 32 0 0
FY2010 117 2 1
FY2011 143 10 4
FY2012 109 6 3
FY2013 116 2 3
FY2014 167 3 1
FY2015 157 3 3
FY2016 302 1 5
FY2017 243 3 6
FY2018 288 2 2
FY2019 256 2 0
FY2020 384 0 0
FY2021 154 2 2
FY2022 83 0 4
FY2023 352 0 27
FY2024 210 0 0
FY2025 224 0 0
FY2026 0 0 1

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 2,118. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22187-83636 2023-09-29 certified Program Manager, CA $153,323
A-22181-81545 2023-09-29 certified Member of Technical Staff III – Networking and Security, CA $184,080
A-22180-80444 2023-09-29 certified Member of Technical Staff III – Networking and Security, CA $184,080
A-22186-83030 2023-09-29 certified Senior Member of Technical Staff- Cloud Software Engineering, WA $162,510
A-22186-83024 2023-09-29 certified Senior Finance Manager – Channel Incentive Programs, CA $175,484
A-22186-83012 2023-09-29 certified Product Line Marketing Manager – DPaaS, CA $128,600
A-22187-83670 2023-09-27 certified Senior MTS - FPGA Hardware Engineer, CA $136,434
A-22187-83614 2023-09-27 certified Customer Success Engineer - Tanzu Observability, CO $89,461
The other 17
A-22259-22544 2023-09-27 certified Staff Engineer - Cloud Platform & Services, CA $153,747
A-22258-21627 2023-09-27 certified Staff Engineer - Cloud Platform & Services, CA $153,747
A-22189-85046 2023-09-27 certified Member of Technical Staff - OCTO Advanced Technology Group, CA $153,747
A-22188-84373 2023-09-22 certified Senior Product Manager, CA $157,673
A-22188-84355 2023-09-22 certified Senior Product Manager, CA $157,673
A-22290-40254 2023-09-22 certified Member of Technical Staff III – Networking and Security, CA $184,080
A-22244-15378 2023-09-22 certified Member of Technical Staff III – Networking and Security, CA $184,080
A-22244-15270 2023-09-22 certified Member of Technical Staff III – Cloud Software Engineering, CA $156,822
A-22244-15264 2023-09-22 certified Member of Technical Staff III – Cloud Software Engineering, CA $156,822
A-22193-86981 2023-09-22 certified Member of Technical Staff III – Cloud Software Engineering, CA $156,822
A-22269-27843 2023-09-22 certified Senior Member of Technical Staff – Networking and Security, CA $184,080
A-22193-87026 2023-09-22 certified Member of Technical Staff III – Cloud Platform & Services, CA $184,080
A-22193-86722 2023-09-22 certified Member of Technical Staff III – Cloud Platform & Services, CA $184,080
A-22192-85839 2023-09-22 certified Engineering Manager, End User Computing, CA $235,040
A-22192-85834 2023-09-22 certified Engineering Manager, End User Computing, CA $235,040
A-22192-85804 2023-09-22 certified Engineering Manager, End User Computing, CA $235,040
A-22230-07831 2023-09-21 certified Program Manager, CA $153,323

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 1,590
  • China 322
  • Canada 41
  • Australia 13
  • France 13
  • Israel 13

Worker's education

  • Master's 1,565
  • Bachelor's 481
  • Doctorate 41
  • None 21
  • Other 10

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 1,926
  • L-1 145
  • NOT IN USA 17
  • F-1 15
  • E-3 4
  • TN 4

Schools

  • UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 100
  • NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY 97
  • CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY 91
  • SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY 90
  • GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 63
  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY 55

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 819
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 156
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 102
  • SOFTWARE ENGINEERING 88
  • INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 80
  • ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING 74

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, 191 of 435. 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 435 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 81. 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 434 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 21, 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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