All occupations · #229 of 1,410 by volume
Computer Hardware Engineers
SOC 17-2061, in the architecture and engineering major group. 175 PERM filings in DOL's current disclosure window, 167 certified and 2 denied.
This rate is level with the field
Computed over 169 decided filings. The 95% interval runs up to a 4.2% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records, so this record can't be told apart from the field in either direction.
Median wage
$157,900
all PERM $103,272
Filings
175
#229 of 1,410
Approval
98.8%
field 96.8%
Median days
384
93 faster than the field
Median offered wage
$157,900above 94%
Approval rate
98.8%ahead of 81%
Median days to decision
384 daysahead of 90%
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
- APPLE INC. 40 filings · 100.0% approved
- INTEL CORPORATION 35 filings · 100.0% approved
- AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC 16 filings
- MICROSOFT CORPORATION 14 filings
- META PLATFORMS, INC. 9 filings
- GOOGLE LLC 7 filings
The employers with the most applications under this code. 121 of 175 filings, 69% of the total.
Firms filing it
- Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen Loewy, LLP 110 filings · 98.1% approved
- Berry Appleman Leiden LLP 13 filings
- Ogletree Deakins 6 filings
- Vialto Partners LLP 6 filings
- Minami Tamaki LLP 5 filings
- Tafapolsky Smith LLP 4 filings
The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 144 of 175 filings, 82% of the total.
Where the jobs are
- California 133
- Washington 15
- Texas 8
- Oregon 4
- Illinois 3
- 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 166 of 175 filings.
Where this sits in the ranking
Ranked 229 of 1,410 by volume: 228 filed at least as many filings, and 1,181 filed no more.
- Just above
- Nannies 176 filings
- Just below
- Budget Analysts 170 filings
Other architecture and engineering 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.
- #237 Landscape Architects 162 filings · 1 denied
- #238 Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians 159 filings · 6 denied
- #241 Aerospace Engineers 157 filings · 6 denied
- #243 Design Coordinator 156 filings · 4 denied
- #214 Mechanical Engineering Technologists and Technicians 190 filings · 4 denied
- #248 Water/Wastewater Engineers 145 filings · 2 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