Southwest Airlines Co.

Transportation & Warehousing · Primarily TX · PERM filings 2019–2024

#752 top sponsor

Overview

Southwest Airlines Co. is a Transportation & Warehousing employer that has filed 99 PERM green-card applications between FY2019 and FY2024. That places it #752 among all U.S. PERM sponsors in our dataset. 74 were certified (74.7% approval rate), taking about 366 days on average. The most-sponsored role is Software Developers, Applications, with most worksites in TX, and the median sponsored wage is $134,992.

99

PERM filings

74.7%

approval

0

denied

$134,992

median wage

366d

avg processing

Worker background

Across 49 filings with beneficiary data, the most common country of origin is INDIA (92%). (From legacy PERM form data, FY2020–FY2024.)

Top countries of origin

  • India45
  • China2
  • Colombia1
  • Canada1

Prior visa status

  • H-1B49

Education

  • Master's25
  • Bachelor's20
  • Doctorate2
  • None2

PERM filings by year

Occupations & job titles

The occupations Southwest Airlines Co. most often sponsors, with average wages.

OccupationFilingsAvg wage
Software Developers, Applications 23 $124,322
Software Developers 20 $149,835
Computer Systems Analysts 18 $132,843
Software Developers, Systems Software 9 $131,235
Project Management Specialists 6 $150,980
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 4 $138,470
Software Quality Assurance Engineers and Testers 3 $120,300
Business Intelligence Analysts 2 $141,315
Computer Network Architects 1 $127,920
Computer and Information Systems Managers 1 $189,000

Common job titles

Senior Software Engineer 19 Sr. Software Engineer 12 Sr. System Engineer 9 Software Engineer 5 Senior System Engineer 5 Senior Product Owner 2 Tech Lead Software Engineer 2 Systems Engineer 2 Sr. System Engineer (Multiple Openings) 2 Senior Systems Engineer 2 Sr Software Engineer 2 Senior System Engineer (JGKOLS) 1

Worksite states

TX 99

Wage range

$124,230

25th

$134,992

median

$150,758

75th

$156,817

90th

Law firms used

  • Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen Loewy, LLP49
  • FRAGOMEN, DEL REY, BERNSEN & LOEWY, LLP43
  • Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP7

Recent filings

CaseJob titleStatusWorksiteDecision
A-20342-29989 Senior Software EngineerCertified - Expired Dallas, TX Jun 7, 2021
A-20322-22201 Senior System EngineerCertified - Expired Dallas, TX Jun 1, 2021
A-20226-88022 Software EngineerCertified - Expired Dallas, TX Apr 15, 2021
A-20225-87429 Senior Software EngineerCertified - Expired Dallas, TX Apr 1, 2021
A-20218-85216 Senior System EngineerCertified - Expired Dallas, TX Mar 24, 2021
A-20203-78987 Senior Software EngineerCertified - Expired Dallas, TX Mar 9, 2021
A-20203-79132 Solutions ArchitectCertified - Expired Dallas, TX Mar 9, 2021
A-20162-64039 Senior Software EngineerCertified - Expired Dallas, TX Feb 2, 2021
A-20163-64639 Senior Software EngineerCertified - Expired Dallas, TX Jan 13, 2021
A-20163-64680 Senior Software EngineerCertified - Expired Dallas, TX Jan 13, 2021
A-20163-64683 Senior Software EngineerCertified - Expired Dallas, TX Jan 13, 2021
A-20164-64989 Senior Software EngineerCertified - Expired Dallas, TX Jan 8, 2021
A-20141-56885 Senior Software EngineerCertified - Expired Dallas, TX Nov 17, 2020
A-20141-56873 Senior Software EngineerCertified - Expired Dallas, TX Nov 17, 2020
A-20066-27484 Senior System EngineerCertified - Expired Dallas, TX Jul 21, 2020
A-20064-26665 Senior Business AnalystCertified - Expired Dallas, TX Jul 17, 2020
A-20010-05447 Senior Operations Research DeveloperCertified - Expired Dallas, TX May 18, 2020
A-19325-86399 Network Performance Business PartnerCertified - Expired Dallas, TX Apr 27, 2020
A-19231-46207 Senior System EngineerCertified - Expired Dallas, TX Jan 15, 2020

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