The Options Clearing Corporation

Finance & Insurance · Primarily TX · PERM filings 2019–2024

#794 top sponsor

Overview

The Options Clearing Corporation is a Finance & Insurance employer that has filed 95 PERM green-card applications between FY2019 and FY2024. That places it #794 among all U.S. PERM sponsors in our dataset. 62 were certified (65.3% approval rate), taking about 337 days on average. The most-sponsored role is Software Developers, with most worksites in TX, and the median sponsored wage is $121,100.

95

PERM filings

65.3%

approval

1

denied

$121,100

median wage

337d

avg processing

Worker background

Across 62 filings with beneficiary data, the most common country of origin is INDIA (79%). (From legacy PERM form data, FY2020–FY2024.)

Top countries of origin

  • India49
  • China7
  • Iran2
  • Australia1
  • South Korea1
  • Mexico1
  • Canada1

Prior visa status

  • H-1B60
  • E-31
  • TN1

Education

  • Master's39
  • Bachelor's17
  • Doctorate5
  • Other1

PERM filings by year

Occupations & job titles

The occupations The Options Clearing Corporation most often sponsors, with average wages.

OccupationFilingsAvg wage
Software Developers 21 $140,084
Software Developers, Applications 15 $121,166
Software Developers, Systems Software 13 $115,316
Financial Quantitative Analysts 6 $138,990
Data Warehousing Specialists 4 $130,172
Network and Computer Systems Administrators 3 $118,967
Financial Risk Specialists 3 $155,367
Computer Network Architects 3 $105,016
Statisticians 3 $106,946
Computer Systems Analysts 3 $105,119

Common job titles

Associate Principal, Software Engineering 13 Associate Principal, Clearing, Pricing & Risk Developer 5 Associate Principal, Data Analytics Engineering 4 Application Developer 4 Associate Principal, Quantitative Risk Management 4 Senior Associate, Software Engineering 3 Software Development Engineer in Test 2 Sr. Data Analytics Engineer 2 Data Scientist 2 Associate Principal, Cloud Engineering 2 Senior Associate, Network Engineering 2 Principal, Cloud Architect 2

Worksite states

TX 48 IL 47

Wage range

$104,800

25th

$121,100

median

$139,464

75th

$158,600

90th

Law firms used

  • Sidley Austin LLP95

Recent filings

CaseJob titleStatusWorksiteDecision
A-20230-88899 Application DeveloperCertified Dallas, TX Apr 16, 2021
A-20195-75877 Lead Data Governance Tech SpecialistCertified-Expired Chicago, IL Feb 26, 2021
A-20190-74133 Lead DevOps EngineerCertified-Expired Chicago, IL Feb 18, 2021
A-20133-53220 Software Development Engineer in TestCertified-Expired Dallas, TX Nov 20, 2020
A-20140-55991 Senior ITSM Specialist, Configuration ManagementCertified-Expired Dallas, TX Nov 19, 2020
A-20098-40319 Senior Quantitative AnalystCertified Chicago, IL Aug 31, 2020
A-20015-07089 Data ScientistCertified Chicago, IL May 20, 2020
A-19365-01308 Senior Data Integration DeveloperCertified Chicago, IL May 13, 2020
A-19339-91141 Application DeveloperCertified Dallas, TX Apr 29, 2020
A-19339-91513 Senior DevOps EngineerCertified Chicago, IL Apr 28, 2020
A-19276-66401 Middleware AdministratorCertified-Expired Dallas, TX Mar 12, 2020
A-19259-58451 Software Development Engineer in TestCertified-Expired Dallas, TX Feb 18, 2020
A-19326-86797 Application DeveloperWithdrawn Dallas, TX Dec 3, 2019
A-19214-39428 Senior Quantitative AnalystCertified-Expired Chicago, IL Oct 23, 2019
A-19214-39437 Data ScientistCertified-Expired Chicago, IL Oct 23, 2019

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