All occupations · #284 of 1,410 by volume
Food Services Manager
SOC 11-9051, in the management major group. 113 PERM filings in DOL's current disclosure window, 99 certified and 13 denied.
Median wage
$70,138
all PERM $103,272
Filings
113
#284 of 1,410
Approval
88.4%
field 96.8%
Median days
386
91 faster than the field
Median offered wage
$70,138above 52%
Approval rate
88.4%ahead of 12%
Median days to decision
386 daysahead of 86%
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
- FOGO DE CHAO HOLDINGS INC. 11 filings
- Silver Diner Holdings, Inc. 3 filings
- CHUNG BLUE INC 2 filings
- Crazy Thai LLC 2 filings
- JOY TERIYAKI, INC. 2 filings
- KURA ICHIGOSAN INC 2 filings
The employers with the most applications under this code. 22 of 113 filings, 19% of the total.
Firms filing it
- Baker Hostetler LLP 11 filings
- White and Shepherd, LLP 8 filings
- Law Offices of Gary J. Kim 5 filings
- LMG Law Group 4 filings
- Barnabas Law Firm LLC 3 filings
- Law Office of Frederic C. Hite 3 filings
The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 34 of 113 filings, 30% of the total.
Where the jobs are
- California 25
- Texas 15
- Florida 14
- Illinois 9
- New York 9
- Washington 6
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 78 of 113 filings.
Where this sits in the ranking
Ranked 284 of 1,410 by volume: 283 filed at least as many filings, and 1,126 filed no more.
- Just above
- Commercial and Industrial Designers 113 filings
- Just below
- Procurement Clerks 111 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.
- #295 Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers 106 filings · 5 denied
- #270 Regulatory Affairs Managers 127 filings · 4 denied
- #302 Clinical Research Coordinators 102 filings · 2 denied
- #255 Investment Fund Managers 141 filings · 3 denied
- #251 Natural Sciences Managers 143 filings · 6 denied
- #247 Compliance Managers 148 filings · 2 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