CITADEL SECURITIES AMERICAS LLC

Finance & Insurance · Primarily IL · PERM filings 2019–2021

#639 top sponsor

Overview

CITADEL SECURITIES AMERICAS LLC is a Finance & Insurance employer that has filed 116 PERM green-card applications between FY2019 and FY2021. That places it #639 among all U.S. PERM sponsors in our dataset. 69 were certified (59.5% approval rate), taking about 212 days on average. The most-sponsored role is Statisticians, with most worksites in IL, and the median sponsored wage is $160,000.

116

PERM filings

59.5%

approval

3

denied

$160,000

median wage

212d

avg processing

Worker background

Across 116 filings with beneficiary data, the most common country of origin is CHINA (58%). (From legacy PERM form data, FY2020–FY2024.)

Top countries of origin

  • China67
  • Canada17
  • India9
  • France7
  • South Korea3
  • United Kingdom2
  • Italy2
  • Russia1
  • Australia1
  • Ukraine1

Prior visa status

  • H-1B90
  • F-115
  • Not in USA4
  • L-14
  • TN2
  • O-11

Education

  • Master's59
  • Bachelor's34
  • Doctorate23

PERM filings by year

Occupations & job titles

The occupations CITADEL SECURITIES AMERICAS LLC most often sponsors, with average wages.

OccupationFilingsAvg wage
Statisticians 39 $186,410
Software Developers, Systems Software 25 $159,480
Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents 15 $149,667
Software Developers, Applications 10 $167,000
Operations Research Analyst 6 $150,000
Financial Specialists, All Other 5 $155,000
Financial Analysts 3 $135,207
Financial Quantitative Analysts 2 $170,000
General and Operations Managers 2 $220,000
Computer Network Architects 1 $150,000

Common job titles

Quantitative Researcher 30 Software Engineer 30 Quantitative Research Analyst 16 Trader 15 Fundamental Analyst 4 Business Manager 3 FPGA Engineer 2 Analyst 2 UI Engineer 2 Quantitative Developer 2 Network Hardware Engineer 1 Senior Software Engineer 1

Worksite states

IL 67 NY 49

Wage range

$150,000

25th

$160,000

median

$195,000

75th

$200,000

90th

Law firms used

  • Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen Loewy, LLP76
  • Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak Stewart, P.C.25
  • Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen Lowey, LLP9
  • Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen Loewy LLP2
  • Ogletree Deakins2
  • Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen and Loewy, LLP1

Recent filings

CaseJob titleStatusWorksiteDecision
A-21127-83425 Fundamental AnalystCertified - Expired New York, NY Oct 26, 2021
A-21070-60873 Quantitative ResearcherCertified - Expired Chicago, IL Oct 15, 2021
A-21014-42273 Business Analytics Data EngineerCertified - Expired Chicago, IL Aug 31, 2021
A-21084-66854 UI EngineerCertified - Expired Chicago, IL Aug 31, 2021
A-21084-66793 Quantitative ResearcherCertified - Expired Chicago, IL Aug 31, 2021
A-21084-66754 Quantitative ResearcherCertified - Expired Chicago, IL Aug 31, 2021
A-21049-53677 Quantitative ResearcherCertified - Expired Chicago, IL Aug 31, 2021
A-21026-45979 Quantitative ResearcherCertified - Expired Chicago, IL Aug 31, 2021
A-21008-40422 Quantitative ResearcherCertified - Expired Chicago, IL Aug 31, 2021
A-21013-41805 Quantitative ResearcherCertified - Expired Chicago, IL Aug 6, 2021
A-20337-28023 Quantitative ResearcherCertified - Expired New York, NY Jun 24, 2021
A-20260-00581 Software EngineerCertified - Expired Chicago, IL Jun 7, 2021
A-20260-00555 Software EngineerCertified - Expired Chicago, IL Jun 4, 2021
A-20261-00990 Software EngineerCertified - Expired New York, NY Jun 1, 2021
A-20261-00933 TraderCertified - Expired New York, NY May 25, 2021
A-20274-06050 Quantitative DeveloperCertified - Expired Chicago, IL May 7, 2021
A-20239-92261 Software EngineerCertified - Expired Chicago, IL May 3, 2021
A-20231-89452 Quantitative AssociateCertified - Expired New York, NY Apr 28, 2021
A-20230-89015 Electronic Trading AssociateCertified - Expired New York, NY Apr 28, 2021
A-20230-89063 UI EngineerCertified - Expired Chicago, IL Apr 27, 2021

Source: U.S. DOL OFLC PERM disclosure data. Wages are annual-equivalent; outliers excluded.