Morningstar, Inc.

Finance & Insurance · Primarily IL · PERM filings 2012–2024

#1,154 top sponsor

Overview

Morningstar, Inc. is a Finance & Insurance employer that has filed 67 PERM green-card applications between FY2012 and FY2024. That places it #1,154 among all U.S. PERM sponsors in our dataset. 44 were certified (65.7% approval rate), taking about 283 days on average. The most-sponsored role is Software Developers, Applications, with most worksites in IL, and the median sponsored wage is $104,624.

67

PERM filings

65.7%

approval

1

denied

$104,624

median wage

283d

avg processing

Worker background

Across 56 filings with beneficiary data, the most common country of origin is INDIA (55%). (From legacy PERM form data, FY2020–FY2024.)

Top countries of origin

  • India31
  • China9
  • South Korea5
  • Canada3
  • Taiwan2
  • Vietnam1
  • Jamaica1
  • Australia1
  • Turkey1
  • Saudi Arabia1

Prior visa status

  • H-1B44
  • L-14
  • F-13
  • H-42
  • TN1
  • E-31

Education

  • Master's34
  • Bachelor's22

PERM filings by year

Occupations & job titles

The occupations Morningstar, Inc. most often sponsors, with average wages.

OccupationFilingsAvg wage
Software Developers, Applications 15 $108,156
Financial Analysts 9 $87,464
Software Quality Assurance Engineers and Testers 5 $103,825
Software Developers 4 $121,690
Computer Systems Analysts 4 $82,945
Software Developers, Systems Software 3 $117,839
Credit Analysts 2 $108,736
Computer and Information Systems Managers 2 $175,041
Economists 2 $100,000
Database Administrators 2 $116,189

Common job titles

Senior Software Engineer 18 Lead Software Engineer 4 Lead QA Automation Engineer 3 Product Specialist 3 Software Engineer 2 Quantitative Behavioral Analyst 2 Equity Research Analyst 2 Business Analyst, Data Services 2 Quantitative Research Manager 1 Lead Oracle Applications DBA 1 Senior QA Engineer 1 Senior Product Specialist 1

Worksite states

IL 64 NY 2 MA 1

Wage range

$89,500

25th

$104,624

median

$119,558

75th

$137,700

90th

Law firms used

  • Barnes Thornburg LLP39
  • Barnes and Thornburg, LLP11
  • Barnes & Thornburg LLP6
  • Barnes & Thornburg, LLP5
  • Barnes and Thornburg LLP3
  • Sidley Austin LLP1

Recent filings

CaseJob titleStatusWorksiteDecision
G-100-24208-225805 Senior Software EngineerCertified Chicago, IL Nov 25, 2025
G-100-24187-177449 Senior Quantitative AnalystCertified Chicago, IL Nov 25, 2025
G-100-24127-962336 Senior Product SpecialistCertified Chicago, IL Aug 24, 2025
G-100-24041-709576 Senior Research AnalystCertified Chicago, IL Jun 21, 2025
G-100-24044-714423 Senior Software EngineerCertified Chicago, IL Jun 18, 2025
G-100-24030-678460 Senior QA EngineerCertified - Expired Chicago, IL May 28, 2025
G-100-23350-571910 Software EngineerCertified - Expired Chicago, IL Apr 23, 2025
G-100-23360-592331 Manager QA EngineeringCertified - Expired Chicago, IL Apr 23, 2025
G-100-23360-592583 Lead Oracle Applications DBACertified - Expired Chicago, IL Apr 23, 2025
G-100-23270-387920 Software Engineer - JavaScript TeamCertified - Expired Chicago, IL Feb 2, 2025
G-100-23242-308834 Senior Data Product SpecialistCertified - Expired Chicago, IL Nov 4, 2024
A-23076-14587 Quantitative Research ManagerCertified - Expired Chicago, IL May 6, 2024
A-22333-64565 Operations Lead, Datafeed OperationsCertified - Expired Chicago, IL Dec 4, 2023
A-22273-31725 Senior Data ModelerCertified - Expired Chicago, IL Oct 18, 2023
A-22286-38877 Lead DevOps EngineerCertified - Expired Chicago, IL Oct 13, 2023
A-22224-05209 Sr. Automation QA EngineerCertified - Expired Chicago, IL Jul 27, 2023
A-22249-17334 Senior Analyst, US RMBSCertified - Expired New York, NY Jul 6, 2023
A-22116-46127 Quantitative Research AnalystCertified - Expired Chicago, IL Jan 20, 2023
A-21363-91683 Quantitative Behavioral AnalystCertified - Expired Chicago, IL Aug 31, 2022
A-21356-89971 Quantitative Behavioral AnalystCertified - Expired Chicago, IL Aug 31, 2022

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