All occupations · #463 of 1,410 by volume
Driver/Sales Workers
SOC 53-3031.00, in the transportation and material moving major group. 49 PERM filings in DOL's current disclosure window, 40 certified and 9 denied.
Median wage
$32,500
all PERM $103,272
Filings
49
#463 of 1,410
Approval
81.6%
field 96.8%
Median days
488
11 slower than the field
Median offered wage
$32,500above 14%
Approval rate
81.6%ahead of 5%
Median days to decision
488 daysahead of 10%
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
- ATL Transport, Inc. 5 filings
- Raleigh CML, LLC 3 filings
- Alomtz Trucking, Inc. 2 filings
- DALLAS LOGISTICS INC 2 filings
- MAGIC JUMP RENTALS VENTURA, LLC 2 filings
- Silvestrin Services, Inc. 2 filings
The employers with the most applications under this code. 16 of 49 filings, 33% of the total.
Firms filing it
- Bu Law Group, P. C. 12 filings
- Chiu and Chiu, LLP 5 filings
- Law Office of Benjamin M. Li 3 filings
- Law Office of Fred Voigtmann PC 3 filings
- CG IMMIGRATION 2 filings
- Hoffpauir Law, LLC 2 filings
The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 27 of 49 filings, 55% of the total.
Where the jobs are
- California 18
- Florida 6
- Georgia 6
- Maryland 5
- North Carolina 3
- New York 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 41 of 49 filings.
Where this sits in the ranking
Ranked 463 of 1,410 by volume: 462 filed at least as many filings, and 947 filed no more.
- Just above
- Healthcare Social Workers 49 filings
- Just below
- Area, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies Teachers, Postsecondary 48 filings
Other transportation and material moving 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.
- #473 First-Line Supervisors of Material-Moving Machine and Vehicle Operators 47 filings · 1 denied
- #474 First-Line Supervisors of Helpers, Laborers, and Material Movers, Hand 47 filings · none denied
- #441 Commercial Pilots 56 filings · 12 denied
- #499 Shuttle Drivers and Chauffeurs 41 filings · 4 denied
- #501 Machine Feeders and Offbearers 41 filings · none denied
- #580 Commercial Pilot 25 filings · none 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