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PERM occupation, SOC 47-1011, #341 of 1,410 by filings
CONSTRUCTION SUPERVISOR
- Biggest sponsor
- Pamlico Pool Company, Inc. · 16% of its filings
- Busiest state
- GA · 16% 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.
Median wage
$66,726
all PERM $103,272
Filings
83
#341 of 1,410
Approval
91.6%
field 96.8%
Median days
391
86 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
$66,726above 49%
Approval rate
91.6%ahead of 19%
Median days to decision
391 daysahead of 79%
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
- Pamlico Pool Company, Inc. 13 filings
- GSI Pool Finishes Inc. 6 filings
- Gunite Specialists Inc. 5 filings
- Metropolitan Concrete Corp 3 filings
- Fieldworks Solutions 2 filings
- Global Tiling Inc. 2 filings
How this is counted
The employers with the most applications under this code. 31 of 83 filings, 37% of the total.
Firms filing it
- Law Office of Cherie E. Cookorinis, P.C. 13 filings
- Law Offices of Ron Katiraei 11 filings
- Berry Appleman Leiden LLP 4 filings
- Immigration Lawyers, P.C. 3 filings
- Law Office of Michele Contreras, LLC 3 filings
- Montagut and Sobral PC 3 filings
How this is counted
The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 37 of 83 filings, 45% of the total.
Where the jobs are
- Georgia 13
- Florida 11
- Pennsylvania 11
- Texas 6
- Massachusetts 5
- North Carolina 5
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 51 of 83 filings.
Where the work is
- Milledgeville, GA 13
- Ambler, PA 11
- Sterling Heights, MI 3
- American Fork, UT 2
- Charlotte, NC 2
- Doral, FL 2
How this is counted
The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 33 of 83 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
- Mexico 132
- El Salvador 124
- Brazil 77
- Honduras 40
- Canada 27
- Venezuela 23
Worker's education
- None 399
- High School 134
- Bachelor's 43
- Other 19
- Associate's 13
- Master's 12
Visa held when filed
- TPS 74
- EWI 71
- B-2 68
- F-1 34
- NOT IN USA 28
- PAROLEE 21
Schools
- N/A 11
- NA 5
- COLEGIO LEONARDO DA VINCI - BETA 4
- CENTRO EDUCACIONAL ADVENTISTA 3
- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 3
- ANDRES BELLO UNIVERSITY 2
Fields of study
- HIGH SCHOOL 47
- N/A 15
- CIVIL ENGINEERING 14
- HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA 12
- GENERAL 10
- NA 9
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 States812,210 jobs
- Middle Georgia nonmetropolitan areaMilledgeville
- Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MDAmbler
- Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MISterling Heights
- Provo-Orem-Lehi, UTAmerican Fork
- Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SCCharlotte
- 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 | $79,920 | ||||
| Middle Georgia nonmetropolitan area | $70,200 | $49,275 | $60,923 | $72,592 | $84,240 |
| Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD | $95,840 | $67,870 | $83,574 | $99,258 | $114,962 |
| Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI | $80,610 | $62,608 | $74,402 | $86,216 | $98,010 |
| Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT | $76,070 | $56,514 | $68,349 | $80,205 | $92,040 |
| Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC | $77,300 | $58,094 | $69,181 | $80,267 | $91,354 |
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 Middle Georgia nonmetropolitan area, 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 | $49,275 | $60,923 | $72,592 | $84,240 |
| 2025-26 | $45,490 | $56,472 | $67,454 | $78,437 |
| 2024-25 | $44,866 | $55,016 | $65,146 | $75,296 |
| 2023-24 | $43,326 | $52,936 | $62,546 | $72,155 |
| 2022-23 | $40,082 | $49,504 | $58,926 | $68,349 |
| 2021-22 | $36,442 | $44,512 | $52,603 | $60,674 |
What the job is
Directly supervise and coordinate activities of construction or extraction workers.
- Preparation
- Medium Preparation Needed
- O*NET Job Zone 3
- DOL's education basis
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Wage year 2026-27
- Jobs, 2025 to 2035
- +5.0%
- About 67,000 openings a year (BLS)
- Typical entry
- High school diploma or equivalent
- 5 years or more of related work (BLS)
Bright Outlook O*NET OnLine lists this job for rapid growth.
The work, most important first
- Inspect work progress, equipment, or construction sites to verify safety or to ensure that specifications are met.
- Read specifications, such as blueprints, to determine construction requirements or to plan procedures.
- Supervise, coordinate, or schedule the activities of construction or extractive workers.
- Assign work to employees, based on material or worker requirements of specific jobs.
- Coordinate work activities with other construction project activities.
- Estimate material or worker requirements to complete jobs.
The education workers in it report
- 22%
Less than a High School Diploma
- 21%
High School Diploma or the equivalent (such as a GED)
- 27%
Post-Secondary Certificate
- 8%
Some College Courses
- 12%
Associate's Degree or other 2-year degree
- 10%
Bachelor's Degree
Titles people use for it
Construction Foreman, Construction Supervisor, Electrical Supervisor, Roustabout Field Supervisor, Coal Mine Production Foreman, Field Operations Supervisor, Field Supervisor, Insulation Foreman.
O*NET also describes Solar Energy Installation Managers under this SOC code.
Related jobs: First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers, First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers, First-Line Supervisors of Helpers, Laborers, and Material Movers, Hand, First-Line Supervisors of Material-Moving Machine and Vehicle Operators, First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers, Solar Energy Installation 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 341 of 1,410 by volume: 340 filed at least as many filings, and 1,069 filed no more.
- Just above
- Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents 83 filings
- Just below
- Art Directors 82 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.
- #329 Segmental Pavers 87 filings · none denied
- #318 Painters, Construction and Maintenance 95 filings · 6 denied
- #365 Stonemasons 76 filings · 3 denied
- #315 Electricians 96 filings · 8 denied
- #301 Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall 103 filings · none denied
- #294 Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters 107 filings · 2 denied
The same job on H-1B
21 certified H-1B labor condition applications for this occupation since FY2020, offering a median of $72,000 a year; the middle half ran $38,480 to $83,200. 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 47-1011. 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 83 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 CONSTRUCTION SUPERVISOR. The measured factors are on the denial risk page, published as separate rates.
- Nothing here is pending
- All 83 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 Pamlico Pool Company, Inc.. 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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- When it'll likely be decided
- An email when DOL moves it