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PERM sponsor, #823 of 70,985 by filings

Zimmer, Inc.

Zimmer, Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 10 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 15, 2026. Zimmer, Inc. has 15 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Computer Systems Analysts · 19% of its filings
Main worksite
Warsaw, IN · 94% of its filings
Industry
Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufacturing · NAICS 339112

Waiting on a case with Zimmer, Inc.?

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

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This rate is level with the field

Over 48 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 14.0% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

48

#823 of 70,985

Certified

46

2 denied

Approval

95.8%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$102,586

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 50 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

15

of 50 tracked cases. The other 35 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed October 23, 2024, 23 months ago.

Where those 15 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
1067%

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

RECONSIDERATION APPEALS
533%

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 50 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 50, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 19, 2026

Follow Zimmer, Inc.

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.

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 28,776 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 80,916 cases, and would be decided around March 15, 2027 (between February 23, 2027 and April 24, 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)
48 published
15 pending
$102,586 median, n=48
Prevailing wage requests
85 published
4 pending
$97,469 median, n=85
H-1B labor condition applications
803 published
1 pending
$91,500 median, n=800

Its median H-1B wage is $91,500 across 800 LCAs, 10.8% lower than its median PERM wage of $102,586 across 48 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 15 pending PERM cases, 5 (33%) sit outside DOL's normal queue: 5 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 Zimmer, Inc., newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.

Wage requests

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: 803 LCAs filed by Zimmer, Inc., 786 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

128 positions for new employment, 111 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 128 · 16%
  • Change of employer 7e 111 · 14%
  • Continuing 7b 228 · 29%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 15 · 2%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 308 · 39%

Shares of the 786 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 144 · 20%
  • Level II 227 · 32%
  • Level III 32 · 4%
  • Level IV 315 · 44%

Shares of the 718 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; 68 of 786 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 757 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 796. 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 794 · E-3 (Australia) 9. 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

    95.8% of 48 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 11% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    10 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 90% of the 13,949 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    165 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 98% of the 27,903 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    17% of 183 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 59% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    51% of 150 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 67% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    98.6% of 219 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 51% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

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

Approval rate

95.8%ahead of 10%

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 45 and 52 filings.

Their median wait
464 days
This one
470 days

This one sits 6 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 823 of 70,985 by volume: 822 filed at least as many filings, and 70,162 filed no more.

Just above
Botha Trucking LLC 48 filings
Just below
DISH NETWORK LLC 48 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 · 9 filings, 19% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 28 of 48 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

Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufacturing

NAICS 339112 · 48 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

  • Indiana 46
  • Arizona 1
  • Ohio 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 48 of 48 filings.

Where the work is

  • Warsaw, IN 45
  • Dover, OH 1
  • Fort Wayne, IN 1
  • Tempe, AZ 1
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 4 cities cover 48 of 48 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Greenberg Traurig, LLP 47 filings · 95.7% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 47 of 48 filings, 98% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. Times Union

    21 cases

  2. The Journal Gazette

    9 cases

  3. Fort Wayne Journal Gazette

    3 cases

  4. The Arizona Republic

    1 cases

  5. The Times-Reporter

    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

    35 cases

  2. Job search websites

    35 cases

  3. Local or ethnic newspapers

    35 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

    54%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    40%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    0.0%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    5.7%

  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 2009

137 PERM decisions from FY2009 to FY2026, busiest in FY2026 with 20.

  • 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
FY2009 1 0 0
FY2010 1 0 0
FY2011 2 0 0
FY2012 2 0 0
FY2013 5 1 0
FY2014 0 0 0
FY2015 5 0 0
FY2016 2 0 0
FY2017 6 0 0
FY2018 9 1 0
FY2019 5 0 0
FY2020 10 0 0
FY2021 14 0 0
FY2022 14 1 1
FY2023 9 0 0
FY2024 16 2 0
FY2025 10 0 0
FY2026 20 0 0

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-22077-27258 2023-06-23 certified Operational Excellence VP, IN $200,000
A-22194-87368 2023-05-15 certified Quality Manager, IN $110,000
A-22182-82623 2023-05-08 certified Quality Senior Engineer I, IN $75,467
A-22202-92824 2023-05-05 certified IT Sr. Business Analyst, IN $97,788
A-22129-52086 2023-02-27 certified Manufacturing Senior Engineer I, IN $52,790
A-22133-54680 2023-02-27 certified IT Lead Analyst, IN $101,250
A-22007-95327 2023-01-10 certified Regulatory Affairs Senior Specialist, IN $84,000
A-22028-04577 2022-11-28 certified IT Lead Analyst - Success Factors, IN $119,628
The other 17
A-22028-04575 2022-10-03 certified IT Lead Analyst, IN $114,950
A-21344-84523 2022-09-13 denied IT Lead Analyst, IN $115,000
A-21349-86457 2022-09-13 certified Regulatory Affairs Senior Specialist, IN $103,824
A-22007-95144 2022-09-02 certified Demand Planning Manager, IN $105,000
A-21363-91977 2022-08-30 certified IT Senior Engineer, IN $119,828
A-21343-83760 2022-08-22 certified IT Senior Analyst, IN $94,786
A-22131-53516 2022-07-01 withdrawn Quality Senior Engineer I, IN $75,467
A-21319-73381 2022-06-03 certified Senior Quality Engineer II, IN $85,000
A-21204-21390 2022-04-25 certified IT Manager, IN $141,075
A-21274-52694 2022-04-20 certified Quality Senior Engineer II, IN $90,000
A-21277-53398 2022-04-20 certified Regulatory Affairs Specialist, IN $73,000
A-21270-50070 2022-04-19 certified Senior Manufacturing Engineer I, IN $88,000
A-21259-45366 2022-03-18 certified Quality Senior Engineer I, IN $80,000
A-21174-05847 2022-01-05 certified Manufacturing Senior Engineer II, IN $80,340
A-21172-04231 2021-12-20 certified Quality Senior Engineer II, IN $85,000
A-21123-81080 2021-10-25 certified Quality Senior Engineer I, IN $80,155
A-21118-79286 2021-10-22 certified Quality Sr. Engineer I, IN $80,158

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 57
  • Mexico 2
  • Sri Lanka 2
  • Australia 1
  • Canada 1
  • China 1

Worker's education

  • Master's 49
  • Bachelor's 22
  • Doctorate 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 69
  • E-3 1
  • L-1 1
  • NOT IN USA 1

Schools

  • UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 5
  • OSMANIA UNIVERSITY 3
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 3
  • VISVESWARAIAH TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, BELGAUM 3
  • LAMAR UNIVERSITY 2
  • PURDUE UNIVERSITY 2

Fields of study

  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 10
  • BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING 6
  • INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING 6
  • MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 5
  • INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 4
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 3

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 8 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 #823 counts this page's cases only.

15 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, 9 of 48. 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 48 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 823. 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 48 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 IN. 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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