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PERM occupation, SOC 11-3021.00, #12 of 1,410 by filings
Computer and Information Systems Managers
- Biggest sponsor
- FMR LLC · 2% of its filings
- Busiest state
- CA · 30% of its filings
- Major group
- Management · SOC 11
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
$191,755
all PERM $103,272
Filings
3,717
#12 of 1,410
Approval
99.0%
field 96.8%
Median days
483
6 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.
Median offered wage
$191,755above 96%
Approval rate
99.0%ahead of 84%
Median days to decision
483 daysahead of 29%
Each bar counts occupations at that value. More
- 5th to 95th
- 25th to 75th
- Median
- 10th and 90th
FY2024
$189,598 median · 120 certified cases
FY2025
$190,000 median · 1,865 certified cases
FY2026
$193,357 median · 1,490 certified cases
- 10th
- $142,490
- +4.1% since FY2024
- Median
- $193,357
- +2.0% since FY2024
- 90th
- $260,000
- -2.2% since FY2024
- 95th
- $274,206
- +1.5% since FY2024
These years are not measuring the same group of filings. The count moves by 15.5 times between the largest year and the smallest, so a change in the ladder is at least partly a change in which employers filed rather than a change in what the work pays. Read the shape, not the difference.
| Fiscal year | Cases | 5th | 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024 | 120 | $129,564 | $136,911 | $161,689 | $189,598 | $235,040 | $265,841 | $270,250 |
| FY2025 | 1,865 | $130,000 | $141,902 | $170,061 | $190,000 | $226,690 | $262,621 | $274,206 |
| FY2026 | 1,490 | $125,450 | $142,490 | $167,921 | $193,357 | $223,600 | $260,000 | $274,206 |
A median answers whether pay moved. More
- 5th to 95th
- 25th to 75th
- Median
- 10th and 90th
CA
$226,682 median · 1,031 certified cases
TX
$187,907 median · 443 certified cases
| State | Cases | 5th | 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CA | 1,031 | $152,526 | $173,000 | $194,933 | $226,682 | $251,776 | $274,206 | $289,510 |
| TX | 443 | $134,264 | $140,659 | $171,714 | $187,907 | $193,862 | $207,287 | $226,077 |
One SOC code, one federal process, and a wage range that moves with the state. 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
- FMR LLC 84 filings · 100.0% approved
- Salesforce, Inc. 75 filings · 100.0% approved
- Deloitte Consulting LLP 67 filings · 100.0% approved
- Intuit Inc. 43 filings · 100.0% approved
- LinkedIn Corporation 43 filings · 100.0% approved
- Oracle America, Inc. 43 filings · 100.0% approved
How this is counted
The employers with the most applications under this code. 355 of 3,717 filings, 10% of the total.
Firms filing it
- Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP 744 filings · 99.4% approved
- Berry Appleman & Leiden LLP 474 filings · 99.8% approved
- Corporate Immigration Partners, P.C. 222 filings · 99.1% approved
- Erickson Immigration Group 203 filings · 99.5% approved
- Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. 167 filings · 100.0% approved
- Seyfarth Shaw LLP 121 filings · 100.0% approved
How this is counted
The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 1,931 of 3,717 filings, 52% of the total.
Where the jobs are
- California 1,129
- Texas 462
- New York 228
- Illinois 204
- Washington 190
- North Carolina 164
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 2,377 of 3,717 filings.
Where the work is
- San Francisco, CA 298
- New York, NY 188
- Austin, TX 125
- Chicago, IL 122
- Seattle, WA 113
- Sunnyvale, CA 99
How this is counted
The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 945 of 3,717 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
Newspapers it advertised in
- 517 cases
San Francisco Chronicle
- 328 cases
The Mercury News
- 224 cases
The Dallas Morning News
- 202 cases
The New York Times
- 181 cases
The Seattle Times
- 129 cases
Chicago Tribune
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
- 3,381 cases
Job search websites
- 2,806 cases
Local or ethnic newspapers
- 1,614 cases
The employer's website
- 876 cases
Employee referral programs
- 871 cases
Radio or TV ads
- 858 cases
Trade or professional organizations
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
- 0.0%
Under 30 days
- under 0.1%
30 to 59 days
- 19%
60 to 89 days
- 25%
90 to 119 days
- 20%
120 to 149 days
- 36%
150 to 180 days
- 0.3%
Over 180 days
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.
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
- India 91
- Canada 5
- China 2
- Philippines 2
- United Kingdom 2
- Albania 1
Worker's education
- Bachelor's 52
- Master's 52
- Other 4
- None 2
- Associate's 1
- High School 1
Visa held when filed
- H-1B 90
- L-1 9
- H-1B1 3
- F-1 2
- E-2 1
- J-1 1
Schools
- UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI 5
- BANGALORE UNIVERSITY 4
- UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS 4
- OSMANIA UNIVERSITY 3
- UNIVERSITY OF PUNE 3
- BHARATHIAR UNIVERSITY 2
Fields of study
- ENGINEERING 14
- COMPUTER SCIENCE 13
- BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 7
- COMPUTER ENGINEERING 7
- COMPUTER INFORMATION SYSTEMS 4
- ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 4
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.
- United States670,570 jobs
- San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CASan Francisco
- New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJNew York
- Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TXAustin
- Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-INChicago
- Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WASeattle
- middle half of pay (BLS)
- median
- 10th to 90th percentile
- DOL's Levels I to IV, left to right
- median PERM offer
| Area | BLS median | Level I | Level II | Level III | Level IV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | $175,140 | ||||
| San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA | $232,890 | $167,565 | $208,104 | $248,643 | $289,182 |
| New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ | $215,300 | $153,899 | $189,259 | $224,640 | $260,000 |
| Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX | $176,990 | $128,128 | $160,139 | $192,130 | $224,141 |
| Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN | $173,760 | $124,842 | $154,690 | $184,517 | $214,365 |
| Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA | $214,680 | $146,453 | $188,718 | $230,963 | $273,229 |
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
DOL's levels for this job in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA, 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.
| Wage year | Level I | Level II | Level III | Level IV |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | $167,565 | $208,104 | $248,643 | $289,182 |
| 2025-26 | $164,133 | $200,907 | $237,682 | $274,456 |
| 2024-25 | $163,509 | $200,304 | $237,120 | $273,915 |
| 2023-24 | $144,186 | $187,533 | $230,859 | $274,206 |
| 2022-23 | $135,803 | $173,451 | $211,120 | $248,768 |
| 2021-22 | $136,864 | $174,678 | $212,472 | $250,286 |
What the job is
Plan, direct, or coordinate activities in such fields as electronic data processing, information systems, systems analysis, and computer programming.
- Preparation
- Considerable Preparation Needed
- O*NET Job Zone 4
- DOL's education basis
- Bachelor's degree
- Wage year 2026-27, on DOL's Appendix A list
- Jobs, 2025 to 2035
- +15.8%
- About 53,500 openings a year (BLS)
- Typical entry
- Bachelor's degree
- 5 years or more of related work (BLS)
Bright Outlook O*NET OnLine lists this job for rapid growth.
The work, most important first
- Direct daily operations of department, analyzing workflow, establishing priorities, developing standards and setting deadlines.
- Meet with department heads, managers, supervisors, vendors, and others, to solicit cooperation and resolve problems.
- Review project plans to plan and coordinate project activity.
- Assign and review the work of systems analysts, programmers, and other computer-related workers.
- Provide users with technical support for computer problems.
- Develop computer information resources, providing for data security and control, strategic computing, and disaster recovery.
The education workers in it report
- 6%
Post-Secondary Certificate
- 26%
Some College Courses
- 48%
Bachelor's Degree
- 14%
Master's Degree
Titles people use for it
Information Systems Director (IS Director), Information Systems Manager (IS Manager), Information Technology Director (IT Director), Information Technology Manager (IT Manager), Application Development Director, Computing Services Director, Data Processing Manager, Information Systems Supervisor (IS Supervisor).
Related jobs: Computer Systems Analysts, Project Management Specialists, Software Developers, Computer Systems Engineers/Architects, Management Analysts, Information Technology Project Managers.
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 12 of 1,410 by volume: 11 filed at least as many filings, and 1,398 filed no more.
- Just above
- Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers 4,449 filings
- Just below
- Accountants and Auditors 3,686 filings
Other management 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.
- #42 General and Operations Managers 1,488 filings · 105 denied
- #45 Marketing Managers 1,382 filings · 45 denied
- #60 Computer and Information Systems Managers 1,099 filings · 33 denied
- #63 Architectural and Engineering Managers 988 filings · 18 denied
- #71 Construction Managers 869 filings · 29 denied
- #73 Financial Managers 847 filings · 25 denied
The same job on H-1B
78,977 certified H-1B labor condition applications for this occupation since FY2020, offering a median of $181,000 a year; the middle half ran $152,000 to $216,169. 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 11-3021.00. 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 3,717 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 Computer and Information Systems Managers. The measured factors are on the denial risk page, published as separate rates.
- Nothing here is pending
- All 3,717 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 FMR 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 the disclosure corpus · data through Aug 26, 2026 · rebuilt with each quarterly ingest
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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