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PERM occupation, SOC 13-2041, #471 of 1,410 by filings
Credit Analysts
- Biggest sponsor
- CITIBANK, N.A · 6% of its filings
- Busiest state
- CA · 27% of its filings
- Major group
- Business and financial · SOC 13
Weighing an offer for this job?
Where it falls among certified offers, and the four wage levels DOL sets for it by area.
This rate is level with the field
Over 48 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.
Why
The 95% interval runs up to a 10.9% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.
Median wage
$121,000
all PERM $103,272
Filings
48
#471 of 1,410
Approval
97.9%
field 96.8%
Median days
387
90 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
$121,000above 80%
Approval rate
97.9%ahead of 65%
Median days to decision
387 daysahead of 84%
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
- CITIBANK, N.A 3 filings
- Atlanticus Services Corporation 2 filings
- AVANT, LLC 2 filings
- BARCLAYS BANK DELAWARE 2 filings
- Commerzbank AG NY Branch 2 filings
- JP MORGAN CHASE CO 2 filings
How this is counted
The employers with the most applications under this code. 13 of 48 filings, 27% of the total.
Firms filing it
- Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen Loewy, LLP 5 filings
- Gibney Anthony Flaherty LLP 5 filings
- Kramer Levin Naftalis Frankel LLP 3 filings
- Antonini and Cohen Immigration law Group 2 filings
- Global Immigration Associates, P.C. 2 filings
- GTH Law Group 2 filings
How this is counted
The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 19 of 48 filings, 40% of the total.
Where the jobs are
- California 13
- New York 13
- Delaware 4
- Georgia 4
- Texas 4
- Illinois 3
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 41 of 48 filings.
Where the work is
- New York, NY 12
- Los Angeles, CA 4
- Atlanta, GA 3
- San Francisco, CA 3
- Wilmington, DE 3
- Chicago, IL 2
How this is counted
The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 27 of 48 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
- China 292
- India 181
- South Korea 32
- Brazil 29
- Canada 28
- France 20
Worker's education
- Master's 511
- Bachelor's 275
- Doctorate 25
- None 8
- High School 4
- Other 2
Visa held when filed
- H-1B 565
- L-1 115
- F-1 47
- E-2 20
- NOT IN USA 11
- TN 7
Schools
- COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 19
- UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI 12
- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 11
- ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 10
- UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE 10
- FORDHAM UNIVERSITY 9
Fields of study
- BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 155
- FINANCE 108
- ECONOMICS 60
- ACCOUNTING 33
- FINANCIAL ENGINEERING 29
- STATISTICS 25
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 States64,390 jobs
- New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJNew York
- Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CALos Angeles
- Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GAAtlanta
- San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CASan Francisco
- Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MDWilmington
- 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 | $83,510 | ||||
| New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ | $136,500 | $89,232 | $121,389 | $153,546 | $185,702 |
| Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA | $95,640 | $64,085 | $87,235 | $110,406 | $133,557 |
| Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA | $80,750 | $59,093 | $75,442 | $91,790 | $108,139 |
| San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA | $122,590 | $73,299 | $103,168 | $133,058 | $162,926 |
| Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD | $92,460 | $66,726 | $85,696 | $104,666 | $123,635 |
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 New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ, 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 | $89,232 | $121,389 | $153,546 | $185,702 |
| 2025-26 | $84,677 | $116,480 | $148,304 | $180,107 |
| 2024-25 | $76,128 | $107,765 | $139,381 | $171,018 |
| 2023-24 | $77,626 | $108,326 | $139,006 | $169,707 |
| 2022-23 | $73,778 | $101,296 | $128,814 | $156,333 |
| 2021-22 | $67,309 | $94,931 | $122,533 | $150,155 |
What the job is
Analyze credit data and financial statements of individuals or firms to determine the degree of risk involved in extending credit or lending money. Prepare reports with credit information for use in decisionmaking.
- 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
- -4.3%
- About 3,100 openings a year (BLS)
- Typical entry
- Bachelor's degree
- BLS
The work, most important first
- Analyze credit data and financial statements to determine the degree of risk involved in extending credit or lending money.
- Complete loan applications, including credit analyses and summaries of loan requests, and submit to loan committees for approval.
- Generate financial ratios, using computer programs, to evaluate customers' financial status.
- Prepare reports that include the degree of risk involved in extending credit or lending money.
- Analyze financial data, such as income growth, quality of management, and market share to determine expected profitability of loans.
- Compare liquidity, profitability, and credit histories of establishments being evaluated with those of similar establishments in the same industries and geographic locations.
The education workers in it report
- 95%
Bachelor's Degree
- 5%
Master's Degree
Titles people use for it
Credit Administrator, Credit Analyst, Credit Officer, Credit Representative, Credit and Collections Analyst, Credit Risk Analyst, Municipal Fixed Income Analyst.
Related jobs: Credit Authorizers, Checkers, and Clerks, Loan Officers, Loan Interviewers and Clerks, Credit Counselors, Financial and Investment Analysts, Personal Financial Advisors.
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 471 of 1,410 by volume: 470 filed at least as many filings, and 939 filed no more.
- Just above
- Facilities and Ground Support Mechanic 48 filings
- Just below
- Insurance Sales Agents 47 filings
Other business and financial 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.
- #477 Tax Preparers 46 filings · 4 denied
- #481 Wholesale and Retail Buyers, Except Farm Products 45 filings · 6 denied
- #485 Loan Officers 44 filings · 1 denied
- #453 Insurance Underwriters 51 filings · 3 denied
- #490 Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products 43 filings · 3 denied
- #447 Financial Examiners 52 filings · none denied
The same job on H-1B
2,152 certified H-1B labor condition applications for this occupation since FY2020, offering a median of $105,500 a year; the middle half ran $80,000 to $142,500. 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 13-2041. 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 48 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 Credit Analysts. The measured factors are on the denial risk page, published as separate rates.
- Nothing here is pending
- All 48 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 CITIBANK, N.A. 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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