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Polar Operations LLC
OSHA: no recordInjuries: no recordLabor: no recordImmigration: 65 LCAContracts: not listed
Across the sources on this site, Polar Operations LLC (Chicago, Illinois) appears in 65 labor condition applications and 19 PERM applications.
It filed 65 labor condition applications with OFLC across fiscal years 2025–2026, covering 65 worker positions. The median offered wage is $200,000 a year against a median prevailing wage of $111,509, above the median across all employers for its most common occupation ($138,494). The most common prevailing wage level is Level III (49% of filings).
OFLC records 19 PERM labor certification applications from the employer with a median offered wage of $175,000; the employer reported 424 employees on payroll.
OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Citations may be contested; the status shown reflects the record at the data date. Enforcement data through 14 Sep 2026.
No OSHA inspection of this employer in Illinois appears in the enforcement data since 2016. Inspections are recorded at the establishment; sites in other states are listed under those states.
Injuries OSHA Injury Tracking Application, Form 300A
Establishments submit their own Form 300A summaries; OSHA publishes the data as submitted and does not verify it. Rates are per 100 full-time workers (cases × 200,000 ÷ hours worked). Calendar years 2023–2025.
No Form 300A summary for this employer in Illinois is in the Injury Tracking Application data for 2023, 2024, 2025. Only establishments in covered industries with 20 or more employees (100 or more in some industries) must submit.
Labor Wage and Hour Division
The Wage and Hour Division publishes concluded compliance actions since fiscal year 2005; amounts are back wages the employer agreed to pay and civil money penalties assessed, as recorded at case conclusion. Data through 15 Jun 2026.
No concluded Wage and Hour Division compliance action names this employer in Illinois in the data since fiscal year 2005.
Immigration Office of Foreign Labor Certification
Employer-specific case information was provided to OFLC by employers who submitted foreign labor certification applications. These are not employer responses to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' survey. Wage levels I–IV are as the employer stated on the application. LCA data through 30 Jun 2026; PERM through 30 Jun 2026.
H-1B labor condition applications
Applications by fiscal year
Prevailing wage levels
Level I 5%Level II 42%Level III 49%Level IV 5%Not stated 0%
| Measure | This employer | SOC 15-1252 | Illinois | US |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median offered wage | $200,000 | $138,494 | $123,656 | $122,221 |
| Offered wage, 25th–75th percentile | $175,000–$200,000 | $112,923–$170,239 | — | — |
| Share at Level I or II | 47% | 53% | 47% | 56% |
Wages annualised from the rate and unit on the application (hourly × 2,080). Medians use up to 400 sampled applications per employer. The occupation column is the employer's most common SOC code, Software Developers, across all employers.
Top job titles
| Job title | Filings | Median wage |
|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 33 | $200,000 |
| Hardware Engineer | 8 | $200,000 |
| Graduate Software Engineer | 5 | $200,000 |
| Systems Engineer | 4 | $155,000 |
| Data Engineer | 2 | — |
| Compliance Data Analyst | 2 | — |
| Network Engineer | 2 | — |
| Software Developer | 2 | — |
| Trading Engineer Lead | 1 | — |
| Information Security Officer | 1 | — |
| Senior Business Intelligence Analyst | 1 | — |
| Graduate Site Reliability Engineer | 1 | — |
Occupations (SOC)
| Occupation | Filings | SOC median wage |
|---|---|---|
| Software Developers | 46 | $138,494 |
| Computer Hardware Engineers | 9 | $170,500 |
| Financial Examiners | 2 | $91,000 |
| Computer Network Architects | 2 | $140,000 |
| Computer and Information Systems Managers | 1 | $200,006 |
| Information Security Analysts | 1 | $135,000 |
| Data Scientists | 1 | $123,741 |
| Computer Occupations, All Other | 1 | $114,808 |
Worksite states
Visa classes: H-1B 57, E-3 Australian 6, H-1B1 Singapore 2. Applications are attributed to the employer's state on the form (Illinois); worksites may be elsewhere.
PERM labor certification (green card sponsorship)
Top PERM job titles
| Job title | Applications |
|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 15 |
| Network Engineer | 2 |
| Data Analytics Lead (People Analytics) | 1 |
| Hardware Engineer | 1 |
PERM occupations
| Occupation | Applications |
|---|---|
| Software Developers | 14 |
| Computer Network Architects | 2 |
| Operations Research Analysts | 1 |
| Computer Hardware Engineers | 1 |
Contracts USAspending.gov
USAspending recipient totals are federal contract obligations reported by awarding agencies for the latest twelve months; a recipient profile is a company-level record, not a per-state one. Retrieved 1 Oct 2026.
Not among the top 3,903 federal contract recipients loaded from USAspending for the latest twelve months. Smaller awards can be searched on USAspending.gov.
Questions and answers
Has OSHA inspected Polar Operations LLC?
No OSHA inspection of Polar Operations LLC in Illinois appears in the enforcement data since 2016.
Were there penalties, and are they final?
No OSHA record, so no penalties to report.
Did the Labor Department find back wages due from Polar Operations LLC?
No concluded Wage and Hour Division compliance action names Polar Operations LLC in Illinois in the data since fiscal year 2005.
Does Polar Operations LLC sponsor H-1B workers, and at what wages?
It filed 65 labor condition applications in fiscal years 2025–2026; 64 were certified. The median offered wage is $200,000 a year; the most common job title is Software Engineer.
Does Polar Operations LLC sponsor green cards (PERM)?
OFLC records 19 PERM applications in fiscal years 2024–2026, 17 of them certified.
Does Polar Operations LLC hold federal contracts?
It is not among the top federal contract recipients loaded from USAspending; smaller awards are not covered on this site.
Have there been union elections at Polar Operations LLC?
NLRB election results are not loaded on this site at present, so this page cannot say either way. The NLRB publishes recent election results and a case search on nlrb.gov.
Is this the same company as the one I am looking for?
Records are matched by normalised name and state. Subsidiaries, franchisees and other states' entities have their own records. See the methodology for how matching works.
Provenance
OSHA inspections and violations: US Department of Labor enforcement data, data.dol.gov, through 14 Sep 2026, inspections opened since 2016. Injury summaries: OSHA Injury Tracking Application Form 300A data, calendar years 2023, 2024, 2025. Wage and Hour compliance actions: data.dol.gov, concluded cases through 15 Jun 2026. LCA and PERM: OFLC disclosure files, fiscal years 2025–2026 through 30 Jun 2026. Federal contracts: USAspending recipient API, latest twelve months at 1 Oct 2026. NLRB election results are not loaded in this build. US government works, public domain; USAspending data is released under CC0. Page built 1 Oct 2026; errors in processing are corrected at the next build (corrections). Disputes about a record go to the agency that holds it.