Updated October 16, 2026

PERM occupation, SOC 47-2031.00, #159 of 1,410 by filings

Carpenters

Biggest sponsor: CORE TECH INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION · 27% of its filings
Busiest state: GU · 37% of its filings
Major group: Construction and extraction · SOC 47

Weighing an offer for this job?

Where it falls among certified offers, and the four wage levels DOL sets for it by area.

Compare my offer DOL's wage levels for this job

Median wage

$40,810

all PERM $103,272

Filings

303

#159 of 1,410

Approval

94.1%

field 96.8%

Median days

485

8 slower 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.

Position in the field 535 occupations with 30+ decided

Median offered wage

$40,810above 23%

$18k $500k

Approval rate

94.1%ahead of 32%

49% 100%

Median days to decision

485 daysahead of 20%

323d 536d

Each bar counts occupations at that value. More

Each bar counts occupations at that value. PERM runs two labour markets through one process, which is why the wage axis is two humps rather than a bell. The line marks this one.

DOL PERM disclosure files

The wage ladder, year by year Carpenters, certified offers

5th to 95th
25th to 75th
Median
10th and 90th

FY2025

$43,555 median · 163 certified cases
FY2026

$42,838 median · 94 certified cases

$40k$60k$80k

10th: $38,522; +5.8% since FY2025
Median: $42,838; -1.6% since FY2025
90th: $80,642; -2.2% since FY2025
95th: $90,022; +4.3% since FY2025

Each row is that fiscal year's certified filings, counted on their own. A percentile is over the year, so a year with far fewer cases behind it is a thinner measurement than one with more.

Offered wage percentiles by fiscal year, with the number of certified cases behind each row.
Fiscal year	Cases	5th	10th	25th	Median	75th	90th	95th
FY2025	163	$34,778	$36,421	$37,835	$43,555	$59,104	$82,472	$86,299
FY2026	94	$37,606	$38,522	$38,522	$42,838	$57,366	$80,642	$90,022

A median answers whether pay moved. More

A median answers whether pay moved. The whole ladder answers which part of it moved, and those are not the same question: a distribution can hold its middle while its top stretches away.

DOL PERM disclosure files, certified cases only

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

CORE TECH INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION 82 filings · 96.1% approved
Interior Contractors Inc, LLC 15 filings
Fargo Pacific, Inc. 10 filings
Munoz Construction, LLC 8 filings
North Star Ag Construction, Inc. 7 filings
TRIPLE J SAIPAN, INC. 6 filings

How this is counted

The employers with the most applications under this code. 128 of 303 filings, 42% of the total.

Firms filing it

Roberts Fowler & Visosky LLP 22 filings
The Bernard Firm PLC 13 filings
Ahmad Law Office PLLC 11 filings
Kurczaba & Brozek Law Offices, LLC 11 filings
BAUMANN, XU and BLACK, LLC 7 filings
Shankar and Associates PC 6 filings

How this is counted

The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 70 of 303 filings, 23% of the total.

Where the jobs are

Guam 111
Florida 28
Illinois 18
New York 12
Georgia 11
New Jersey 11

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 191 of 303 filings.

Where the work is

Tamuning, GU 95
Barrigada, GU 8
Webster City, IA 7
Hampton Bays, NY 6
Raleigh, NC 6
Saipan, MP 6

How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 128 of 303 filings.

Newspapers it advertised in

Guam Daily Post

115 cases
Chicago Sun-Times

16 cases
The Denver Post

15 cases
Lexington Herald-Leader

10 cases
Sun-Sentinel

8 cases
Des Moines Register

7 cases

How this is counted

The newspaper or professional journal named for each case's two print ads, one count per paper per case, however the filer spelled it.

Additional steps it used

Job search websites

3 cases
Local or ethnic newspapers

2 cases
Radio or TV ads

2 cases
Private employment firms

1 cases
Trade or professional organizations

1 cases

How this is counted

The steps a professional job needs beyond the job order and the ads, by the number of cases that name each.

How long before filing it began

Under 30 days

0.0%
30 to 59 days

1.0%
60 to 89 days

24%
90 to 119 days

17%
120 to 149 days

10%
150 to 180 days

47%
Over 180 days

1.0%

How this is counted

Days from the first recruitment step to the filing. 20 C.F.R. § 656.17(e) puts the job order and ads 30 to 180 days before filing.

Where every PERM employer recruits

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

Mexico 3
Brazil 2
Ecuador 2
Peru 2
France 1

Worker's education

None 8
High School 2

Visa held when filed

EWI 3
NOT IN USA 2
F-1 1

Schools

CARTERET HIGH SCHOOL 1
EEB PROFESSORA MARIA JOSE BARBOSA VIEIRA 1

Fields of study

GENERAL HIGH SCHOOL 1

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.

What the job pays outside PERM BLS May 2025, DOL wage year 2026-27

United States
670,090 jobs
Raleigh-Cary, NC
Raleigh

$40k$60k$80k$100k

middle half of pay (BLS)
median
10th to 90th percentile
DOL's Levels I to IV, left to right
median PERM offer

Market pay and DOL wage levels, by area
Area	BLS median	Level I	Level II	Level III	Level IV
United States	$60,580
Raleigh-Cary, NC	$50,820	$37,045	$44,221	$51,397	$58,573

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

BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics; DOL OFLC wage tables

DOL's levels for this job in Raleigh-Cary, NC, year by year

Each July DOL resets the four levels from BLS's newest survey. A determination keeps the figures of the year it was issued in.

DOL wage levels by wage year, Raleigh-Cary, NC
Wage year	Level I	Level II	Level III	Level IV
2026-27	$37,045	$44,221	$51,397	$58,573
2025-26	$31,366	$39,998	$48,651	$57,283
2024-25	$36,670	$42,765	$48,838	$54,933
2023-24	$33,966	$39,936	$45,885	$51,854
2022-23	$33,467	$39,166	$44,866	$50,565
2021-22	$31,429	$37,190	$42,931	$48,693

Every area and both wage tables in the wage-level tool.

What the job is

Construct, erect, install, or repair structures and fixtures made of wood and comparable materials, such as concrete forms; building frameworks, including partitions, joists, studding, and rafters; and wood stairways, window and door frames, and hardwood floors. May also install cabinets, siding, drywall, and batt or roll insulation. Includes brattice builders who build doors or brattices (ventilation walls or partitions) in underground passageways.

Preparation: Very Little to Some Preparation Needed; O*NET Job Zone 1-2
DOL's education basis: High school diploma or equivalent; Wage year 2026-27
Jobs, 2025 to 2035: +3.9%; About 62,800 openings a year (BLS)
Typical entry: High school diploma or equivalent; BLS

The work, most important first

Measure and mark cutting lines on materials, using a ruler, pencil, chalk, and marking gauge.
Follow established safety rules and regulations and maintain a safe and clean environment.
Shape or cut materials to specified measurements, using hand tools, machines, or power saws.
Select and order lumber or other required materials.
Install structures or fixtures, such as windows, frames, floorings, trim, or hardware, using carpenters' hand or power tools.
Verify trueness of structure, using plumb bob and level.

The education workers in it report

Less than a High School Diploma

18%
High School Diploma or the equivalent (such as a GED)

52%
Post-Secondary Certificate

21%
Some College Courses

8%

Titles people use for it

Carpentry Construction Specialist, Finish Carpenter, Form Carpenter, Scaffold Builder, Bridge Carpenter, Cabinet Maker, Concrete Carpenter, Construction Carpenter.

This section includes information from the O*NET 31.0 Database and O*NET OnLine by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. PERM Tracker has modified some of this information (the shares are rounded and only the top tasks are shown); what changed. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications.

Against other jobs

Where this sits in the ranking

Ranked 159 of 1,410 by volume: 158 filed at least as many filings, and 1,251 filed no more.

Just above: Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants 305 filings
Just below: Animal Scientists 301 filings

Other construction and extraction 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.

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 47-2031.00. 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 303 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 Carpenters. The measured factors are on the denial risk page, published as separate rates.
Nothing here is pending: All 303 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 CORE TECH INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION. 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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