All occupations · #316 of 1,410 by volume
Food Batchmakers
SOC 51-3092, in the production major group. 96 PERM filings in DOL's current disclosure window, 80 certified and 16 denied.
Median wage
$20,571
all PERM $103,272
Filings
96
#316 of 1,410
Approval
83.3%
field 96.8%
Median days
536
59 slower than the field
Median offered wage
$20,571above 0.7%
Approval rate
83.3%ahead of 6%
Median days to decision
536 daysahead of 0.0%
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
- GDI Services Inc. 79 filings · 98.7% approved
- Ardens Garden The Juice Market, Inc 6 filings
- Kettle Heroes 6 filings
- Betsy Ann Candies Inc 1 filings
- CAVALCANTI AND VERTAMATTI FOODS 1 filings
- colombomex,inc. dba la flor michoacana ice cream 1 filings
The employers with the most applications under this code. 94 of 96 filings, 98% of the total.
Firms filing it
- American International Immigration Law, PLLC 85 filings · 91.8% approved
- Law Office of David R Gates PLLC 6 filings
- Law Offices of Hyder Overas 1 filings
- Law Offices of Mario Bozza 1 filings
- Mark T Knapp Esquire 1 filings
- Rivera Hernandez Campos, PLLC 1 filings
The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 95 of 96 filings, 99% of the total.
Where the jobs are
- Georgia 85
- Arizona 6
- California 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Texas 1
- Utah 1
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 95 of 96 filings.
Where this sits in the ranking
Ranked 316 of 1,410 by volume: 315 filed at least as many filings, and 1,094 filed no more.
- Just above
- Electricians 96 filings
- Just below
- Quality Control Analysts 95 filings
Other production 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.
- #326 Jewelers and Precious Stone and Metal Workers 89 filings · 8 denied
- #331 Dental Laboratory Technicians 86 filings · 2 denied
- #336 Cabinetmakers and Bench Carpenters 84 filings · 7 denied
- #348 Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters 81 filings · 14 denied
- #274 Butchers and Meat Cutters 125 filings · 33 denied
- #266 Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers 131 filings · 13 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