Costco Wholesale Corporation

Retail Trade · Primarily WA · PERM filings 2019–2024

#379 top sponsor

Overview

Costco Wholesale Corporation is a Retail Trade employer that has filed 186 PERM green-card applications between FY2019 and FY2024. That places it #379 among all U.S. PERM sponsors in our dataset. 125 were certified (67.2% approval rate), taking about 352 days on average. The most-sponsored role is Software Developers, Applications, with most worksites in WA, and the median sponsored wage is $135,800.

186

PERM filings

67.2%

approval

0

denied

$135,800

median wage

352d

avg processing

Worker background

Across 104 filings with beneficiary data, the most common country of origin is INDIA (98%). (From legacy PERM form data, FY2020–FY2024.)

Top countries of origin

  • India102
  • Ireland1
  • Canada1

Prior visa status

  • H-1B103
  • L-21

Education

  • None90
  • Bachelor's9
  • Master's5

PERM filings by year

Occupations & job titles

The occupations Costco Wholesale Corporation most often sponsors, with average wages.

OccupationFilingsAvg wage
Software Developers, Applications 50 $124,347
Software Developers 48 $145,540
Computer Systems Analysts 17 $137,604
Software Developers, Systems Software 14 $133,273
Information Security Analysts 10 $142,000
Database Administrators 9 $142,589
Software Quality Assurance Engineers and Testers 9 $119,467
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 8 $132,838
Data Warehousing Specialists 6 $150,435
Data Scientists 3 $130,138

Common job titles

Software Developer 37 Full Stack Engineer 22 Quality Engineer 16 Data Engineer 7 SAP Security Analyst 6 BI Engineer 5 Software Developer (BI) 5 SAP HANA Basis Administrator 4 IBM Sterling OMS - Developer 4 Software Developer - SAP (Data Services) 4 Functional Analyst 3 SAP Functional Analyst 3

Worksite states

WA 185 IL 1

Wage range

$127,000

25th

$135,800

median

$143,800

75th

$155,000

90th

Law firms used

  • Fisher Phillips LLP102
  • Fisher & Phillips LLP81
  • MacDonald Hoague & Bayless1
  • Attorney at Law1

Recent filings

CaseJob titleStatusWorksiteDecision
G-100-24310-455462 Data ScientistCertified Issaquah, WA Mar 24, 2026
G-100-24312-460118 Software DeveloperCertified Issaquah, WA Mar 20, 2026
G-100-24309-451140 Full Stack EngineerCertified Issaquah, WA Mar 16, 2026
G-100-24309-450960 BI EngineerCertified Issaquah, WA Mar 13, 2026
G-100-24298-429619 Data EngineerCertified Issaquah, WA Mar 12, 2026
G-100-24299-434331 Full Stack EngineerCertified Issaquah, WA Mar 10, 2026
G-100-24305-446450 Database AdministratorCertified Issaquah, WA Mar 5, 2026
G-100-24305-445889 Software DeveloperCertified Issaquah, WA Mar 5, 2026
G-100-24260-341326 Solution ArchitectCertified Issaquah, WA Feb 8, 2026
G-100-24260-341268 Full Stack EngineerCertified Issaquah, WA Feb 8, 2026
G-100-24263-349191 Full Stack EngineerCertified Issaquah, WA Feb 8, 2026
G-100-24242-302805 Systems ArchitectCertified Issaquah, WA Jan 20, 2026
G-100-24226-264615 BI EngineerCertified Issaquah, WA Jan 20, 2026
G-100-24242-302752 Quality EngineerCertified Issaquah, WA Jan 20, 2026
G-100-24240-295812 BI EngineerCertified Issaquah, WA Jan 20, 2026
G-100-24240-295733 DevOps EngineerCertified Issaquah, WA Jan 20, 2026
G-100-24239-293489 Software DeveloperCertified Issaquah, WA Jan 20, 2026
G-100-24221-253560 SAP FICO Functional AnalystCertified Issaquah, WA Jan 16, 2026
G-100-24219-248650 Data EngineerCertified Issaquah, WA Jan 13, 2026
G-100-24206-219282 Full Stack EngineerCertified Issaquah, WA Nov 10, 2025

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