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-100-24198-200344 BI EngineerCertified Issaquah, WA Nov 6, 2025
G-100-24200-204631 Full Stack EngineerCertified Issaquah, WA Nov 6, 2025
G-100-24197-195452 Software DeveloperCertified Issaquah, WA Nov 6, 2025
G-100-24194-192993 Data EngineerCertified Issaquah, WA Nov 6, 2025
G-100-24197-195417 iOS Mobile App DeveloperCertified Issaquah, WA Nov 6, 2025
G-100-24194-192810 Full Stack EngineerCertified Issaquah, WA Nov 5, 2025
G-100-24194-192679 Engineer - ServiceNowCertified Issaquah, WA Nov 5, 2025
G-100-24194-192858 Full Stack EngineerCertified Issaquah, WA Nov 5, 2025
G-100-24166-111549 Data EngineerCertified Issaquah, WA Sep 11, 2025
G-100-24157-072817 Software EngineerCertified Issaquah, WA Sep 5, 2025
G-100-24149-041768 Software DeveloperCertified Issaquah, WA Sep 2, 2025
G-100-24149-041929 Full Stack EngineerCertified Issaquah, WA Sep 2, 2025
G-100-24099-866170 Enterprise Automation Solution EngineerCertified Issaquah, WA Aug 7, 2025
G-100-24099-866184 Full Stack EngineerCertified Issaquah, WA Aug 7, 2025
G-100-24108-895713 Data EngineerCertified Issaquah, WA Aug 7, 2025
G-100-24108-896865 Software DeveloperCertified Issaquah, WA Aug 7, 2025
G-100-24088-836270 Full Stack EngineerCertified Issaquah, WA Jul 3, 2025
G-100-24082-823044 Software DeveloperCertified Issaquah, WA Jul 2, 2025
G-100-24072-790771 Solution ArchitectCertified Issaquah, WA Jun 30, 2025
G-100-24064-767434 Digital Accessibility AnalystCertified Issaquah, WA Jun 27, 2025

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