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Gemological Institute of America, Inc.
Gemological Institute of America, Inc. filed its first LCA in FY2026 and has 10 filings so far. A sponsorship history this short says little about how it handles a case that goes wrong.
- New positions, FY2026
- 0
- Lifetime filings
- 10
- Worker positions
- 10
- Median offered wage
- $144,167
Positions filed as NEW employment in the latest filed fiscal year — the closest honest read on new people being sponsored.
Labor condition applications across every fiscal year in the corpus.
FY2026 – FY2026
Positions on those applications — NOT people and NOT visas granted. A worker renewed three times counts three times.
Derived at read time from the $5,000 wage bands, across every occupation.
11 disclosed positions
Employer of record
The entity exactly as it appears on the filings. This name is the entity — nothing here is combined with a similarly named company.
- Name as filed
- Gemological Institute of America, Inc.
- Trade name / DBA: GIA Inc.
- Address
- 5345 Armada DriveCarlsbad, CA 92008UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
- Phone
- +1 (800) 421-7250
- Industry (NAICS)
- 54171Scientific Research and Development Services
- Point of contact
- Tiffany MillsDirector, Total Rewards
- Declared status
- Neither flag declared on the filings
Filing volume
Filings, worker positions and new-employment positions per fiscal year. Three different measurements, never added together.
| Fiscal year | Filings | Worker positions | New-employment positions |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 | 10 | 10 | 0 |
Case status (filings)
| Bucket | Count | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Certified | 11 | 100.0% |
Petition type (positions)
| Bucket | Count | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Continued employment (renewal) | 4 | 36.4% |
| Change of employer | 6 | 54.5% |
| Amended petition | 1 | 9.1% |
36% of this employer's petition-type positions are continued employment — the same worker renewed. That is why the headline figure above is new-employment positions rather than filings: an employer renewing the same staff every three years produces the same filing volume as one hiring that many new people, and the two are not the same opportunity.
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The job title is whatever the employer wrote on the application. Nothing is reclassified, and the wage band is derived from the $5,000 bands rather than read from a stored average.
| Job title as filed | SOC occupation | Filings | Positions | Offered wage, 25th–75th | Prevailing wage level |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Principal Software Developer | 15-1252.00Software Developers | 2 | 2 | $142,083 – $161,875median $144,167 · 5 disclosed | Level III3 of 5 positions |
| Senior Application Support Analyst | 15-1211.00Computer Systems Analysts | 2 | 2 | $132,500 – $137,500median $135,000 · 2 disclosed | Level III2 of 2 positions |
| Senior Security Information Engineer | 15-1299.05Information Security Engineers | 2 | 2 | $161,250 – $163,750median $162,500 · 2 disclosed | Level III2 of 2 positions |
| Senior Software Developer | 15-1252.00Software Developers | 2 | 2 | $142,083 – $161,875median $144,167 · 5 disclosed | Level III3 of 5 positions |
| Research Engineer | 17-2112.00Industrial Engineers | 1 | 1 | $4,306,250 – $4,308,750median $4,307,500 · 1 disclosed | Level II1 of 1 positions |
| Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer | 15-1252.00Software Developers | 1 | 1 | $142,083 – $161,875median $144,167 · 5 disclosed | Level III3 of 5 positions |
| Sr. Instructor,Jewelry Manufact. Arts/Tech.Career Teacher | 25-3021.00Self-Enrichment Teachers | 1 | 1 | $81,250 – $83,750median $82,500 · 1 disclosed | Level IV1 of 1 positions |
Offered wages
Every disclosed offered wage on this employer's certified applications, in $5,000 bands.
25th $138,750 · median $144,167 · 75th $162,813 · 11 disclosed positions
Offered wages from certified Labor Condition Applications, grouped into $5,000 bands. Percentiles are computed from the bands, not from a stored average.
Worksites
Places of employment declared on the applications, ranked by how often they appear.
| Worksite | County | Filings | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carlsbad, CA5345 Armada Drive | — | 5 | 45.5% |
| Carlsbad, CA9345 Armada Drive | — | 2 | 18.2% |
| Carlsbad, CA2603 Avenida De Anita Apt 48 | — | 1 | 9.1% |
| Las Vegas, NV8917 W. Sahara Ave | — | 1 | 9.1% |
| New York, NY50 W 47th Street 8th floor | — | 1 | 9.1% |
| Anna, TX1413 David Drive | — | 1 | 9.1% |
Outcomes
Derived at read time from the stored approval and denial counts. Nothing here is a stored rate.
- Approval rate
- 100.0%
- Approvals
- 11
- Denials
- 0
- Basis
- DOL decisions
US Department of Labor decisions on the applications, not petition outcomes.
11 adjudicated
Two different measurements. They are never blended into one rate.
A certified-then-withdrawn application was approved and pulled afterwards, so it counts as an approval. An application withdrawn before a decision was never adjudicated and is excluded from the denominator entirely — counting it as a denial would invent a rejection that never happened.
Attorney of record
The agent or attorney named on this employer's applications.
- Attorney
- Teodora Purcell
- Law firm
- Purcell Law APC
- Location
- San Diego, CA
Every figure above is aggregated from Labor Condition Applications published by the US Department of Labor for Gemological Institute of America, Inc. as that name appears on the filings. Filing counts are applications, position counts are worker positions on those applications, and neither is a headcount or a count of visas granted. How these pages are built.
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