All occupations · #261 of 1,410 by volume
Dentists, General
SOC 29-1021, in the healthcare practitioners major group. 139 PERM filings in DOL's current disclosure window, 122 certified and 15 denied.
Median wage
$130,000
all PERM $103,272
Filings
139
#261 of 1,410
Approval
89.1%
field 96.8%
Median days
398
79 faster than the field
Median offered wage
$130,000above 84%
Approval rate
89.1%ahead of 13%
Median days to decision
398 daysahead of 73%
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
- WESTERN DENTAL SERVICES, INC 5 filings
- GHAZAL, RODGERS, AND WATANABE DENTAL CORP. 3 filings
- SOUMAVA SEN DDS PC 3 filings
- Texas A&M University 3 filings
- 42 North Dental 2 filings
- Apple Tree Dental 2 filings
The employers with the most applications under this code. 18 of 139 filings, 13% of the total.
Firms filing it
- Gold Law Offices 20 filings
- Chugh, LLP 7 filings
- Feldman Feldman Associates 7 filings
- Law Offices of Elahe Najfabadi 5 filings
- Hussain, Bendersky, and Liston LLC 4 filings
- Chenhalls Nissen, S.C. 3 filings
The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 46 of 139 filings, 33% of the total.
Where the jobs are
- California 28
- Texas 22
- Massachusetts 11
- Illinois 10
- Pennsylvania 9
- Indiana 6
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 86 of 139 filings.
Where this sits in the ranking
Ranked 261 of 1,410 by volume: 260 filed at least as many filings, and 1,149 filed no more.
- Just above
- Childcare Workers 139 filings
- Just below
- N/A 137 filings
Other healthcare practitioners 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.
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