All occupations · #486 of 1,410 by volume
Construction Carpenters
SOC 47-2031, in the construction and extraction major group. 44 PERM filings in DOL's current disclosure window, 33 certified and 11 denied.
Median wage
$53,602
all PERM $103,272
Filings
44
#486 of 1,410
Approval
75.0%
field 96.8%
Median days
400
77 faster than the field
Median offered wage
$53,602above 37%
Approval rate
75.0%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
- KLAUSPENNER INC 3 filings
- APEX GLASS REPLACEMENT 2 filings
- Apex Window Werks Inc. 2 filings
- Queblo Construct 2 filings
- Saw Patrol Inc 2 filings
- AA Building and Remodeling, Inc. 1 filings
The employers with the most applications under this code. 12 of 44 filings, 27% of the total.
Firms filing it
- Minsky, McCormick Hallagan, P.C. 4 filings
- Robert S Kleinman PA 3 filings
- ANN PETERS TAX SERVICE 2 filings
- Castro Legal Group 2 filings
- Law Office of Ronald D Richey 2 filings
- OjalaBarbour Law Firm PLLC 2 filings
The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 15 of 44 filings, 34% of the total.
Where the jobs are
- Illinois 6
- Florida 4
- New Jersey 4
- New York 4
- Texas 4
- 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 25 of 44 filings.
Where this sits in the ranking
Ranked 486 of 1,410 by volume: 485 filed at least as many filings, and 924 filed no more.
- Just above
- Loan Officers 44 filings
- Just below
- Fashion Designers 44 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. Wages inside a group still swing hard, because the group holds every seniority level and every metro.
- #488 Helpers--Electricians 43 filings · 4 denied
- #489 Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators 43 filings · 9 denied
- #479 Helpers--Painters, Paperhangers, Plasterers, and Stucco Masons 45 filings · none denied
- #495 Highway Maintenance Workers 42 filings · none denied
- #521 Brickmasons and Blockmasons 35 filings · 15 denied
- #436 Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers 58 filings · 5 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