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PERM occupation, SOC 31-1011, #96 of 1,410 by filings
CAREGIVER
- Biggest sponsor
- Sweet Virginia Care, LLC · 10% of its filings
- Busiest state
- CA · 30% of its filings
- Major group
- Healthcare support · SOC 31
Weighing an offer for this job?
Where it falls among certified offers, and the four wage levels DOL sets for it by area.
Median wage
$29,120
all PERM $103,272
Filings
619
#96 of 1,410
Approval
81.0%
field 96.8%
Median days
398
79 faster than the field
What it pays
Where its median offer sits among every occupation, then the whole ladder of certified offers by year and by state.
Median offered wage
$29,120above 7%
Approval rate
81.0%ahead of 4%
Median days to decision
398 daysahead of 73%
Each bar counts occupations at that value. More
Who files it
The sponsors and firms with the most PERM filings under this code, the places the work sits, and who the workers were.
Sponsors filing it
- Sweet Virginia Care, LLC 63 filings · 100.0% approved
- brant inc dba brightstar of pinellas county 40 filings · 100.0% approved
- MJ Eldercare of Arkansas LLC dba Home Instead 32 filings · 100.0% approved
- Solomon International Inc. dba FirstLight Home Ca 31 filings · 100.0% approved
- Altus Health Inc DBA BrightStar Care Roseville 30 filings · 100.0% approved
- Fairview Avenue LLC 30 filings · 100.0% approved
How this is counted
The employers with the most applications under this code. 226 of 619 filings, 37% of the total.
Firms filing it
- Law Office of Nhu Muon 248 filings · 84.7% approved
- American International Immigration Law, PLLC 79 filings · 70.9% approved
- ALG Lawyers 54 filings · 64.8% approved
- Ruby Law Group LLC 49 filings · 98.0% approved
- JPC IMMIGRATION SERVICES 29 filings
- GENERAL COUNSEL P.C. 20 filings
How this is counted
The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 479 of 619 filings, 77% of the total.
Where the jobs are
- California 186
- Virginia 89
- Florida 75
- New Hampshire 55
- Arkansas 32
- South Carolina 31
How this is counted
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 468 of 619 filings.
Where the work is
- Ashburn, VA 63
- Largo, FL 40
- Hot Springs, AR 32
- Roseville, CA 30
- Bedford, NH 29
- Manchester, NH 26
How this is counted
The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 220 of 619 filings.
- Every sponsor that files it, by state, approval rate, offered wage and time to a decision
- Every filing for it, PERM, wage requests and H-1B, case by case
Who filled these jobs, FY2016 to FY2023
From DOL's old form; the form in use since mid-2023 doesn't carry them. Top six of each.
Country of citizenship
- Philippines 2,677
- South Korea 184
- Bangladesh 149
- Nigeria 64
- Vietnam 64
- Pakistan 48
Worker's education
- None 1,480
- High School 1,322
- Bachelor's 549
- Associate's 121
- Other 34
- Master's 16
Visa held when filed
- NOT IN USA 926
- B-2 270
- E-3 163
- F-1 142
- B-1 51
- J-1 20
Schools
- ARELLANO UNIVERSITY 13
- FAR EASTERN UNIVERSITY 10
- HOLY ANGEL UNIVERSITY 9
- OUR LADY OF FATIMA UNIVERSITY 9
- UNIVERSITY OF PANGASINAN 9
- BAGUIO CENTRAL UNIVERSITY 8
Fields of study
- NA 321
- GENERAL EDUCATION 316
- N/A 241
- HIGH SCHOOL 212
- NURSING 185
- REGISTERED NURSING 96
The job itself
What O*NET says the work is, what the market pays it by BLS's survey, its outlook, and DOL's wage levels year by year.
- Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WVAshburn
- Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FLLargo
- Hot Springs, ARHot Springs
- Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CARoseville
- middle half of pay (BLS)
- median
- 10th to 90th percentile
- DOL's Levels I to IV, left to right
| Area | BLS median | Level I | Level II | Level III | Level IV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV | — | $24,378 | $26,811 | $29,224 | $31,658 |
| Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL | — | $21,570 | $22,859 | $24,149 | $25,438 |
| Hot Springs, AR | — | $21,611 | $23,005 | $24,378 | $25,771 |
| Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA | — | $27,082 | $28,267 | $29,474 | $30,659 |
How these figures fit together
BLS surveys employers on what they pay everyone in a job; DOL builds its four levels from the same survey a year later (the July 2026 wage year uses BLS's May 2025 estimates). DOL publishes levels by area, not nationally, so the United States line has none. Levels are hourly in DOL's tables; here they're shown a year at 2,080 hours, as DOL computes them. The metros are the ones holding the most of this job's PERM filings, placed by Census's county files.
The block is the middle half of what employers report paying everyone in this job, citizen or not; the ticks under it are DOL's four prevailing wage levels for that metro, the floors a PERM or H-1B offer is held to. More
Against other jobs
Where this sits in the ranking
Ranked 96 of 1,410 by volume: 95 filed at least as many filings, and 1,314 filed no more.
- Just above
- Industrial Production Managers 639 filings
- Just below
- Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists 616 filings
Other healthcare support roles
Occupations sharing this one's SOC major group, which is carried in the first two digits of the code. More
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.
The same job on H-1B
3 certified H-1B labor condition applications for this occupation since FY2020, offering a median of $33,280 a year; the middle half ran $30,160 to $34,102. By state and year in the salary explorer.
Notes on these numbers
Reading the wage
A floor, not a salary survey: every level and metro mixed. DOL's four wage levels for this job, by area.
What the median 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. The levels page reads DOL's OFLC wage search live.
What these numbers don't say
4 notes
- The code is the identity
- This one is SOC 31-1011. 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 all 619 wages 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, so nothing here is a property of CAREGIVER. The measured factors are on the denial risk page, published as separate rates.
- Nothing here is pending
- All 619 counted here carry a decision date, because every case in DOL's disclosure files does, so a case still waiting is in none of them. The largest filer of this occupation is Sweet Virginia Care, LLC. Where the queue stands today is on the processing times page.
The window these figures cover: DOL's PERM disclosure files for fiscal years 2024 to 2026, through the third quarter of 2026, 373,939 decided cases. Nothing pending is counted here. How each figure is built
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.
Filings newer than DOL's last published file can't be attributed to this occupation until DOL publishes them. The live list on the case search page carries them by employer.
Case data: DOL quarterly disclosure files (flag.dol.gov) · data through Jun 30, 2026 · quarterly
Employers and firms: Derived from DOL's disclosure files · data through Jun 30, 2026 · rebuilt with each quarterly load
O*NET occupation data: O*NET Database, USDOL/ETA (onetcenter.org) · data through Aug 16, 2026 · twice a year
BLS market pay: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (bls.gov) · data through May 31, 2025 · yearly, each spring
BLS employment projections: BLS Employment Projections (bls.gov) · data through Dec 31, 2025 · yearly, each autumn
DOL wage tables: DOL OFLC wage data downloads (flag.dol.gov) · data through Jul 1, 2026 · yearly, each july
What each source includes
Case data: Decided PERM cases only. A case still waiting isn't in here, so counts and durations describe finished cases.
Employers and firms: Employers, law firms and occupations ranked from decided cases only.
O*NET occupation data: What O*NET says each occupation is and takes: its description, tasks, Job Zone and the education workers report. A description of the job everywhere, not of any one employer's opening.
BLS market pay: What employers report paying everyone in each job, nationally, by state and by metro, from BLS's yearly survey (May of the year named). Citizens and immigrants alike; not PERM offers.
BLS employment projections: BLS's ten-year projection of each job's employment and yearly openings, and the entry education it calls typical. A projection, not a count.
DOL wage tables: The four prevailing wage levels DOL publishes for every job in every area, each wage year from 2021-22, as DOL's own tables print them. The floors an offer is held to, not what anyone was paid.
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