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

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
A-22041-10197 QA EngineerCertified - Expired San Francisco, CA Dec 12, 2022
A-21256-43641 Analyst, Operational RiskCertified - Expired San Francisco, CA Aug 26, 2022
A-22167-73536 Application Security EngineerWithdrawn San Francisco, CA Jul 14, 2022
A-21298-62847 Application Security EngineersCertified - Expired San Francisco, CA Jun 2, 2022
A-22087-32007 Senior Product ManagerWithdrawn San Francisco, CA May 23, 2022
A-20322-22381 Data ScientistCertified - Expired San Francisco, CA Jun 1, 2021
A-20160-62928 Principal QA EngineerCertified - Expired San Francisco, CA Jan 15, 2021
A-20006-03245 Senior Business Intelligence AnalystCertified - Expired San Francisco, CA May 28, 2020
A-19312-81003 Senior Analyst, Credit RiskCertified - Expired San Francisco, CA Apr 7, 2020

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