Upgrade, Inc.

Finance & Insurance · Primarily CA · PERM filings 2019–2025

#1,629 top sponsor

Overview

Upgrade, Inc. is a Finance & Insurance employer that has filed 49 PERM green-card applications between FY2019 and FY2025. That places it #1,629 among all U.S. PERM sponsors in our dataset. 28 were certified (57.1% approval rate), taking about 345 days on average. The most-sponsored role is Credit Analysts, with most worksites in CA, and the median sponsored wage is $155,000.

49

PERM filings

57.1%

approval

1

denied

$155,000

median wage

345d

avg processing

Worker background

Across 21 filings with beneficiary data, the most common country of origin is INDIA (71%). (From legacy PERM form data, FY2020–FY2024.)

Top countries of origin

  • India15
  • China5
  • Argentina1

Prior visa status

  • H-1B21

Education

  • Master's17
  • Bachelor's4

PERM filings by year

Occupations & job titles

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

OccupationFilingsAvg wage
Credit Analysts 8 $140,625
Business Intelligence Analysts 7 $166,429
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 5 $173,000
Information Security Analysts 5 $158,400
Data Scientists 5 $160,400
Statisticians 4 $108,500
Software Developers 4 $218,000
Marketing Managers 3 $190,500
Software Quality Assurance Engineers and Testers 2 $160,000
Computer Occupations, All Other 2 $185,000

Common job titles

Data Scientist 5 Senior QA Automation Engineer 3 Application Security Engineer 3 QA Engineer 2 Senior QA Automation Engineer (ME076) 1 Sr. Application Security Engineer (ME043) 1 Sr. Fraud Analyst 1 Senior Analyst, Card Credit Risk 1 Analyst, Credit Risk Management 1 Software Engineer 1 Sr. Business Intelligence Developer 1 Sales Operations Analyst 1

Worksite states

CA 48 AZ 1

Wage range

$131,000

25th

$155,000

median

$195,000

75th

$230,000

90th

Law firms used

  • MCCOWN & EVANS LLP28
  • McCown Evans LLP17
  • McCown and Evans LLP4

Recent filings

CaseJob titleStatusWorksiteDecision
G-100-23272-400898 Software Engineer (ME015)Certified San Francisco, CA Feb 4, 2025
G-100-23273-401530 Senior Manager, Credit Risk (ME040)Certified San Francisco, CA Feb 4, 2025
G-100-23272-401323 Data AnalystCertified San Francisco, CA Feb 4, 2025
G-100-23272-401089 Sr. Data EngineerCertified San Francisco, CA Feb 4, 2025
G-100-23272-400665 Manager, Credit Risk (ME052)Certified San Francisco, CA Feb 4, 2025
G-100-23272-400355 Manager, Card Risk Services (ME068)Certified San Francisco, CA Feb 4, 2025
G-100-23220-249000 Application Security EngineerCertified - Expired San Francisco, CA Dec 4, 2024
G-100-23220-247621 Data ScientistCertified - Expired San Francisco, CA Nov 23, 2024
A-23031-95711 Director of EngineeringCertified San Francisco, CA May 8, 2024
A-23055-05659 Analyst, Credit Risk ManagementCertified San Francisco, CA May 8, 2024
A-23039-99334 QA EngineerCertified San Francisco, CA Apr 9, 2024
A-23060-07290 Data ScientistCertified San Francisco, CA Apr 9, 2024
A-23009-84690 Product ManagerCertified-Expired San Francisco, CA Mar 25, 2024
A-22312-53953 Senior Manager, Card Credit RiskCertified-Expired San Francisco, CA Feb 5, 2024
A-22340-68571 Principal Machine Learning EngineerCertified-Expired San Francisco, CA Dec 11, 2023
A-22158-67737 Principal QA EngineersCertified San Francisco, CA Apr 12, 2023
A-22195-88914 Application Security EngineerCertified-Expired San Francisco, CA Apr 4, 2023
A-22108-42383 Senior Manager, Credit Risk & Investor AnalyticsCertified-Expired San Francisco, CA Feb 22, 2023
A-22080-28320 Director, Credit Risk & Investor AnalyticsCertified-Expired San Francisco, CA Jan 23, 2023
A-22034-07202 Principal Performance EngineerCertified-Expired San Francisco, CA Dec 13, 2022

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