All occupations · #421 of 1,410 by volume
Automotive Specialty Technician
SOC 49-3023, in the installation, maintenance and repair major group. 61 PERM filings in DOL's current disclosure window, 47 certified and 14 denied.
Median wage
$50,232
all PERM $103,272
Filings
61
#421 of 1,410
Approval
77.0%
field 96.8%
Median days
400
77 faster than the field
Median offered wage
$50,232above 33%
Approval rate
77.0%ahead of 3%
Median days to decision
400 daysahead of 72%
Who files this job
The sponsors and firms with the most PERM filings under this code, and the states the work sits in.
Sponsors filing it
- EZ Collision LLC 3 filings
- JJ marketing INC 3 filings
- MTR AUTO GROUP LLC DBA ARRIBA MOTORS 3 filings
- Empire Shell Inc 2 filings
- Prestige Auto Works Inc. 2 filings
- All Concrete Chicago Inc. 1 filings
The employers with the most applications under this code. 14 of 61 filings, 23% of the total.
Firms filing it
- Gillett Gillett, PLLC 10 filings
- Immigration Lawyers, P.C. 2 filings
- Kurczaba Law Offices PC 2 filings
- Law Offices of D Robert Jones PLLC 2 filings
- The Law Offices of Saher Joseph Macarius LLC 2 filings
- Zwaik, Gilbert Associates 2 filings
The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 20 of 61 filings, 33% of the total.
Where the jobs are
- Texas 13
- California 8
- Florida 8
- New York 6
- Illinois 5
- Massachusetts 3
The worksite state on the application, which is where the job is and not where the company is headquartered. Volume by state across everyone is on the state map. These 6 states cover 43 of 61 filings.
Where this sits in the ranking
Ranked 421 of 1,410 by volume: 420 filed at least as many filings, and 989 filed no more.
- Just above
- Admin. Assistant and Sales Representative 61 filings
- Just below
- Clinical and Counseling Psychologists 60 filings
Other installation, maintenance and repair roles
Occupations sharing this one's SOC major group, which is carried in the first two digits of the code. Wages inside a group still swing hard, because the group holds every seniority level and every metro.
- #412 Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers 62 filings · 2 denied
- #454 Maintenance Workers, Machinery 51 filings · 1 denied
- #377 Automotive Body and Related Repairers 72 filings · 6 denied
- #467 Medical Equipment Repairers 48 filings · 1 denied
- #470 Facilities and Ground Support Mechanic 48 filings · 12 denied
- #360 Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers 77 filings · 3 denied
Reading the wage
This is the median wage employers committed to in federal filings for this occupation. It mixes every experience level and every metro, and it's a floor: the employer must offer at least the prevailing wage DOL determines for the occupation, level and county. Across all PERM filings the middle half of offered wages runs $45,178 to $141,357, so a figure inside that band is unremarkable whichever occupation it belongs to.
What these numbers don't say
- The code is the identity
- Two SOC codes can carry the same job title, so a title that looks duplicated on the ranking is two different occupations. Match on the code when you're checking a specific filing.
- A median isn’t an offer
- It's the middle of every wage committed to for this occupation across the country, entry level and principal alike. The same role's medians swing hard by worksite, which the state map shows directly.
- Approval isn’t about the occupation
- The denial rate moves with what happened in the filing rather than with the job title. The measured factors are on the denial risk page, published as separate rates.
- Nothing here is pending
- Every case in DOL's disclosure files carries a decision date, so a case still waiting is in none of these counts. Where the queue stands today is on the processing times page.
The window these figures cover
DOL's FY2026 Q3 and FY2025 Q4 and New Form FY2024 Q4 and FY2024 Q4 PERM disclosure files, unioned and de-duplicated by case number: 373,939 cases. Every case in them carries a decision, so nothing here counts what’s still pending. How each figure is built, and what it can and can't answer, is set out in the methodology.
Weighing an offer?
Compare it against this median, then check the state map, where the same occupation's medians swing hard by worksite.
Setting one?
All 1,410 occupations sort together on the wages page, and denial rates show how outcome moves with the offered wage.
Case data: DOL quarterly disclosure files (flag.dol.gov) · data through Jun 30, 2026 · quarterly
Employers and firms: Derived from the disclosure corpus · data through Aug 26, 2026 · rebuilt with each quarterly ingest