All occupations · #470 of 1,410 by volume
Facilities and Ground Support Mechanic
SOC 49-9071, in the installation, maintenance and repair major group. 48 PERM filings in DOL's current disclosure window, 35 certified and 12 denied.
Median wage
$34,944
all PERM $103,272
Filings
48
#470 of 1,410
Approval
74.5%
field 96.8%
Median days
387
90 faster than the field
Median offered wage
$34,944above 17%
Approval rate
74.5%ahead of 3%
Median days to decision
387 daysahead of 84%
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
- DynaMist Irrigation Company 11 filings
- Star Marianas Air 7 filings
- Alvarado Real Estate Group Inc 2 filings
- GRANDE CENTER FOR POST ACUTE AND NURSING CARE LLC 2 filings
- GREEN MOUNTAIN BOAT LINES LTD 2 filings
- RAMIRO D CASTILLO 2 filings
The employers with the most applications under this code. 26 of 48 filings, 54% of the total.
Firms filing it
- Action International, Inc. 11 filings
- Bejasa Law Office, P.C. 2 filings
- Farmer Law PC 2 filings
- Garvish Immigration Law Group, LLC 2 filings
- JDD ASSOCIATES LLC 2 filings
- William Velie Attorney at Law, PLLC 2 filings
The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 21 of 48 filings, 44% of the total.
Where the jobs are
- Texas 12
- Northern Mariana Islands 7
- Florida 6
- California 3
- New Jersey 3
- Alabama 2
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 33 of 48 filings.
Where this sits in the ranking
Ranked 470 of 1,410 by volume: 469 filed at least as many filings, and 940 filed no more.
- Just above
- Special Education Teachers, Middle School 48 filings
- Just below
- Credit Analysts 48 filings
Other installation, maintenance and repair 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.
- #467 Medical Equipment Repairers 48 filings · 1 denied
- #454 Maintenance Workers, Machinery 51 filings · 1 denied
- #421 Automotive Specialty Technician 61 filings · 14 denied
- #522 Bus and Truck Mechanics and Diesel Engine Specialists 35 filings · 6 denied
- #412 Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers 62 filings · 2 denied
- #528 Radio, Cellular, and Tower Equipment Installers and Repairers 33 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