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PERM occupation, SOC 11-9013, #534 of 1,410 by filings
Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers
- Biggest sponsor
- MURPHYBROWN LLC · 13% of its filings
- Busiest state
- IL · 19% of its filings
- Major group
- Management · SOC 11
Weighing an offer for this job?
Where it falls among certified offers, and the four wage levels DOL sets for it by area.
Median wage
$57,262
all PERM $103,272
Filings
32
#534 of 1,410
Approval
78.1%
field 96.8%
Median days
392
85 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
$57,262above 41%
Approval rate
78.1%ahead of 4%
Median days to decision
392 daysahead of 77%
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
- MURPHYBROWN LLC 4 filings
- AMVC Employee Services LLC 3 filings
- Estrellas Farm Co. 3 filings
- Bradley Krenz 1 filings
- C.R. LANDSCAPING, INC. DBA C.R. NELSON WHOLESALE 1 filings
- Christopher Whitehead Farms Partnership 1 filings
How this is counted
The employers with the most applications under this code. 13 of 32 filings, 41% of the total.
Firms filing it
- Fragomen Del Rey Bernsen Loewy 4 filings
- Immigration Lawyers, P.C. 4 filings
- Davis Goldfarb PLLC 3 filings
- Fredrikson Byron PA 2 filings
- Nelli Nikova P.C. 2 filings
- Gardner Law, PLLC 1 filings
How this is counted
The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 16 of 32 filings, 50% of the total.
Where the jobs are
- Illinois 6
- North Dakota 6
- North Carolina 5
- Pennsylvania 2
- Arkansas 1
- Arizona 1
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 21 of 32 filings.
Where the work is
- Ahoskie, NC 4
- Grayslake, IL 3
- Aurora, OR 1
- Baytown, TX 1
- Berthold, ND 1
- Carey, ID 1
How this is counted
The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 11 of 32 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
- Mexico 122
- South Africa 57
- Honduras 25
- Ukraine 20
- China 18
- Canada 14
Worker's education
- Bachelor's 169
- None 76
- High School 66
- Master's 37
- Doctorate 18
- Other 17
Visa held when filed
- H-1B 121
- TN 77
- H-2A 48
- E-2 20
- NOT IN USA 11
- F-1 10
Schools
- ESCUELA AGRICOLA PANAMERICANA ZAMORANO 19
- UNIVERSIDAD VERACRUZANA 8
- ZAMORANO ESCUELA AGRICOLA PANAMERICANA 6
- UNIVERSIDAD MICHOACANA DE SAN NICOLAS DE HIDALGO 5
- INSTITUTO TECNOLOGICO DE HUEJUTLA 4
- LA UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE CHIHUAHUA 4
Fields of study
- VETERINARY MEDICINE 45
- AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING 29
- AGRICULTURE 25
- HIGH SCHOOL 18
- AGRONOMY 9
- GENERAL STUDIES 9
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 States6,500 jobs
- Eastern North Carolina nonmetropolitan areaAhoskie
- Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-INGrayslake
- Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TXBaytown
- 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 | $89,900 | ||||
| Eastern North Carolina nonmetropolitan area | $85,570 | $57,512 | $85,634 | $113,734 | $141,856 |
| Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN | — | $64,938 | $84,448 | $103,979 | $123,490 |
| Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX | $92,800 | $51,958 | $70,013 | $88,046 | $106,101 |
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 Eastern North Carolina nonmetropolitan area, 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 | $57,512 | $85,634 | $113,734 | $141,856 |
| 2025-26 | $49,566 | $73,133 | $96,678 | $120,245 |
| 2024-25 | $47,944 | $69,493 | $91,062 | $112,611 |
| 2023-24 | $38,459 | $58,282 | $78,104 | $97,926 |
| 2022-23 | $64,938 | $73,694 | $82,451 | $91,208 |
| 2021-22 | $38,709 | $57,762 | $76,814 | $95,867 |
What the job is
Plan, direct, or coordinate the management or operation of farms, ranches, greenhouses, aquacultural operations, nurseries, timber tracts, or other agricultural establishments. May hire, train, and supervise farm workers or contract for services to carry out the day-to-day activities of the managed operation. May engage in or supervise planting, cultivating, harvesting, and financial and marketing activities.
- Preparation
- Considerable Preparation Needed
- O*NET Job Zone 4
- DOL's education basis
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Wage year 2026-27
- Jobs, 2025 to 2035
- -3.4%
- About 70,800 openings a year (BLS)
- Typical entry
- High school diploma or equivalent
- 5 years or more of related work (BLS)
The work, most important first
- Collect and record growth, production, and environmental data.
- Manage nurseries that grow horticultural plants for sale to trade or retail customers, for display or exhibition, or for research.
- Direct and monitor trapping and spawning of fish, egg incubation, and fry rearing, applying knowledge of management and fish culturing techniques.
- Direct and monitor the transfer of mature fish to lakes, ponds, streams, or commercial tanks.
- Determine how to allocate resources and to respond to unanticipated problems, such as insect infestation, drought, and fire.
- Determine plant growing conditions, such as greenhouses, hydroponics, or natural settings, and set planting and care schedules.
Titles people use for it
Aquaculture Director, Farm Manager, Greenhouse Manager, Ranch Manager, Farm Operations Technical Director, Fish Hatchery Manager, Harvesting Manager, Hatchery Manager.
Related jobs: Agricultural Technicians, Agricultural Engineers, Soil and Plant Scientists, First-Line Supervisors of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Workers, Agricultural Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary, Biofuels Production Managers.
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 534 of 1,410 by volume: 533 filed at least as many filings, and 876 filed no more.
- Just above
- Molders, Shapers, and Casters, Except Metal and Plastic 32 filings
- Just below
- Compensation, Benefits, and Job Analysis Specialists 31 filings
Other management 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.
- #523 Natural Sciences Managers 35 filings · 2 denied
- #546 Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 29 filings · none denied
- #547 Advertising and Promotions Managers 29 filings · 1 denied
- #508 Facilities Managers 38 filings · 1 denied
- #561 Training and Development Managers 27 filings · 3 denied
- #496 Medical and Health Services Managers 42 filings · 1 denied
The same job on H-1B
321 certified H-1B labor condition applications for this occupation since FY2020, offering a median of $78,000 a year; the middle half ran $58,000 to $95,000. 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 11-9013. 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 32 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 Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers. The measured factors are on the denial risk page, published as separate rates.
- Nothing here is pending
- All 32 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 MURPHYBROWN LLC. 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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