All occupations · #374 of 1,410 by volume
Education Administrators, Postsecondary
SOC 11-9033.00, in the management major group. 73 PERM filings in DOL's current disclosure window, 65 certified and 2 denied.
This rate is level with the field
Computed over 67 decided filings. The 95% interval runs up to a 10.2% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records, so this record can't be told apart from the field in either direction.
Median wage
$90,000
all PERM $103,272
Filings
73
#374 of 1,410
Approval
97.0%
field 96.8%
Median days
470
7 faster than the field
Median offered wage
$90,000above 64%
Approval rate
97.0%ahead of 54%
Median days to decision
470 daysahead of 62%
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
- Trustees of Harvard University 2 filings
- WATSON INSTITUTE 2 filings
- American English College 1 filings
- Anaheim University 1 filings
- Arizona State University 1 filings
- Berklee College of Music 1 filings
The employers with the most applications under this code. 8 of 73 filings, 11% of the total.
Firms filing it
- Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy LLP 5 filings
- Ware | Immigration 5 filings
- Corporate Immigration Partners, P.C. 2 filings
- Ice Miller LLP 2 filings
- LAW OFFICES OF URSULA TRIMMING, ESQ. 2 filings
- McCandlish Holton, PC 2 filings
The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 18 of 73 filings, 25% of the total.
Where the jobs are
- California 11
- Florida 9
- Massachusetts 5
- Ohio 5
- District of Columbia 3
- Indiana 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 36 of 73 filings.
Where this sits in the ranking
Ranked 374 of 1,410 by volume: 373 filed at least as many filings, and 1,036 filed no more.
- Just above
- Retail Salespersons 74 filings
- Just below
- Lodging Managers 73 filings
Other management 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.
- #375 Lodging Managers 73 filings · 3 denied
- #366 Purchasing Managers 76 filings · 3 denied
- #361 Advertising and Promotions Managers 77 filings · 1 denied
- #395 SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGER 67 filings · 5 denied
- #396 Chief Executives 67 filings · 7 denied
- #347 Social and Community Service Managers 81 filings · 3 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