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-100-23297-453810 Infrastructure AnalystCertified - Expired Issaquah, WA Feb 9, 2025
G-100-23297-451717 Functional AnalystCertified - Expired Issaquah, WA Feb 9, 2025
G-100-23296-449972 Software DeveloperCertified - Expired Issaquah, WA Feb 9, 2025
G-100-23284-424890 Software DeveloperCertified - Expired Issaquah, WA Feb 9, 2025
G-100-23293-445673 Software DeveloperCertified - Expired Issaquah, WA Feb 9, 2025
G-100-23296-449875 Full Stack EngineerCertified - Expired Issaquah, WA Feb 9, 2025
G-100-23304-467579 Storage EngineerCertified - Expired Issaquah, WA Feb 8, 2025
G-100-23284-425760 Quality EngineerCertified - Expired Issaquah, WA Feb 8, 2025
G-100-23255-339128 Full Stack EngineerCertified - Expired Issaquah, WA Jan 6, 2025
G-100-23255-338482 Functional Analyst (Software)Certified - Expired Issaquah, WA Jan 6, 2025
G-100-23254-336011 Quality EngineerCertified - Expired Issaquah, WA Jan 6, 2025
G-100-24254-325794 Full Stack EngineerWithdrawn Issaquah, WA Dec 4, 2024
G-100-24093-849162 SAP Security AnalystWithdrawn Issaquah, WA Oct 30, 2024
G-100-23220-247555 Software DeveloperCertified - Expired Issaquah, WA Oct 10, 2024
G-100-23219-244900 Software DeveloperCertified - Expired Issaquah, WA Oct 10, 2024
G-100-23221-252383 Quality EngineerCertified - Expired Issaquah, WA Oct 10, 2024
G-100-23240-301044 Java Application DeveloperCertified - Expired Issaquah, WA Oct 10, 2024
G-100-23208-220423 Quality EngineerCertified - Expired Issaquah, WA Aug 26, 2024
G-100-23208-219811 Software DeveloperCertified - Expired Issaquah, WA Aug 26, 2024
G-100-23207-217316 Java Application Developer – eCommerceCertified - Expired Issaquah, WA Aug 26, 2024

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