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
A-20031-14052 Senior Software Engineer (Data)Certified - Expired Chicago, IL Jun 4, 2020
A-19254-56845 Lead Software EngineerCertified - Expired Chicago, IL Mar 26, 2020
A-19289-71675 Lead Software EngineerCertified - Expired CHICAGO, IL Mar 16, 2020
A-19273-64869 Senior Software EngineerCertified - Expired CHICAGO, IL Mar 9, 2020
A-19249-54551 Systems EngineerCertified - Expired CHICAGO, IL Jan 14, 2020
A-12314-14018 Senior Retirement Services AnalystDenied Chicago, IL Dec 27, 2019
A-19231-46084 Senior Software EngineerCertified - Expired Chicago, IL Oct 21, 2019

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