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PERM occupation, SOC 11-3031, #170 of 1,410 by filings
Financial Managers
- Biggest sponsor
- JP MORGAN CHASE CO · 2% of its filings
- Busiest state
- CA · 28% 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.
This rate is level with the field
Over 271 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.
Why
The 95% interval runs up to a 8.0% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.
Median wage
$171,945
all PERM $103,272
Filings
274
#170 of 1,410
Approval
95.2%
field 96.8%
Median days
388
89 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
$171,945above 95%
Approval rate
95.2%ahead of 39%
Median days to decision
388 daysahead of 83%
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
- JP MORGAN CHASE CO 5 filings
- DELOITTE TOUCHE LLP 4 filings
- ERNST YOUNG U.S. LLP 4 filings
- RODL LANGFORD DE KOCK LLP 4 filings
- AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC 3 filings
- META PLATFORMS, INC. 3 filings
How this is counted
The employers with the most applications under this code. 23 of 274 filings, 8% of the total.
Firms filing it
- Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen Loewy, LLP 46 filings · 95.7% approved
- Berry Appleman Leiden LLP 14 filings
- Kramer Levin Naftalis Frankel LLP 9 filings
- Ogletree Deakins 9 filings
- Seyfarth Shaw LLP 9 filings
- Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak Stewart, P.C. 8 filings
How this is counted
The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 95 of 274 filings, 35% of the total.
Where the jobs are
- California 78
- New York 66
- Florida 22
- Texas 16
- Illinois 12
- Georgia 9
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 203 of 274 filings.
Where the work is
- New York, NY 60
- San Francisco, CA 14
- Chicago, IL 9
- Los Angeles, CA 9
- Miami, FL 8
- Atlanta, GA 7
How this is counted
The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 107 of 274 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
- India 1,091
- China 555
- Canada 477
- United Kingdom 252
- Mexico 185
- South Korea 180
Worker's education
- Master's 2,651
- Bachelor's 1,973
- Other 152
- None 107
- Doctorate 64
- High School 24
Visa held when filed
- H-1B 2,960
- L-1 739
- E-2 254
- TN 214
- F-1 184
- NOT IN USA 99
Schools
- COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 80
- MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 51
- NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 51
- DUKE UNIVERSITY 50
- UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA 44
- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 40
Fields of study
- BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 1,497
- ACCOUNTING 549
- FINANCE 324
- ECONOMICS 274
- ACCOUNTANCY 68
- MANAGEMENT 54
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 States841,710 jobs
- New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJNew York
- San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CASan Francisco
- Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-INChicago
- Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CALos Angeles
- Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FLMiami
- 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 | $166,570 | ||||
| New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ | $221,010 | $148,387 | $199,222 | $250,078 | $300,914 |
| San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA | $216,150 | $138,902 | $191,651 | $244,421 | $297,170 |
| Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN | $168,810 | $113,568 | $152,152 | $190,715 | $229,299 |
| Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA | $175,310 | $115,586 | $159,890 | $204,214 | $248,518 |
| Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL | $164,230 | $98,842 | $141,710 | $184,600 | $227,469 |
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 New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ, 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 | $148,387 | $199,222 | $250,078 | $300,914 |
| 2025-26 | $144,290 | $195,811 | $247,333 | $298,854 |
| 2024-25 | $139,922 | $190,757 | $241,592 | $292,427 |
| 2023-24 | $134,347 | $182,042 | $229,715 | $277,410 |
| 2022-23 | $129,002 | $168,854 | $208,728 | $248,581 |
| 2021-22 | $125,986 | $170,331 | $214,677 | $259,022 |
What the job is
Plan, direct, or coordinate accounting, investing, banking, insurance, securities, and other financial activities of a branch, office, or department of an establishment.
- Preparation
- Considerable Preparation Needed
- O*NET Job Zone 4
- DOL's education basis
- Bachelor's degree
- Wage year 2026-27, on DOL's Appendix A list
- Jobs, 2025 to 2035
- +9.7%
- About 65,600 openings a year (BLS)
- Typical entry
- Bachelor's degree
- 5 years or more of related work (BLS)
Bright Outlook O*NET OnLine lists this job for rapid growth.
The work, most important first
- Establish and maintain relationships with individual or business customers or provide assistance with problems these customers may encounter.
- Oversee the flow of cash or financial instruments.
- Plan, direct, or coordinate the activities of workers in branches, offices, or departments of establishments, such as branch banks, brokerage firms, risk and insurance departments, or credit departments.
- Recruit staff members.
- Evaluate data pertaining to costs to plan budgets.
- Oversee training programs.
The education workers in it report
- 14%
High School Diploma or the equivalent (such as a GED)
- 56%
Bachelor's Degree
- 21%
Post-Baccalaureate Certificate
Titles people use for it
Banking Center Manager (BCM), Branch Manager, Credit Administration Manager, Financial Center Manager, Accounting Supervisor, Business Banking Manager, Credit Manager, Financial Planning Manager.
O*NET also describes Treasurers and Controllers and Investment Fund Managers under this SOC code.
Related jobs: Accountants and Auditors, Financial and Investment Analysts, Personal Financial Advisors, Credit Analysts, Loan Officers, Financial Risk Specialists.
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 170 of 1,410 by volume: 169 filed at least as many filings, and 1,240 filed no more.
- Just above
- Special Effects Artists and Animators 274 filings
- Just below
- Maintenance and Repair Workers, General 272 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.
- #162 Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers 294 filings · 26 denied
- #180 Purchasing Managers 243 filings · 7 denied
- #157 Architectural and Engineering Managers 308 filings · 8 denied
- #146 General and Operations Managers 335 filings · 37 denied
- #197 Sales Manager 219 filings · 13 denied
- #198 Construction Managers 219 filings · 20 denied
The same job on H-1B
11,388 certified H-1B labor condition applications for this occupation since FY2020, offering a median of $180,000 a year; the middle half ran $140,000 to $235,581. 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 11-3031. 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 274 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 Financial Managers. The measured factors are on the denial risk page, published as separate rates.
- Nothing here is pending
- All 274 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 JP MORGAN CHASE CO. 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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- When it'll likely be decided
- An email when DOL moves it