All occupations · #146 of 1,410 by volume
General and Operations Managers
SOC 11-1021, in the management major group. 335 PERM filings in DOL's current disclosure window, 295 certified and 37 denied.
Median wage
$110,406
all PERM $103,272
Filings
335
#146 of 1,410
Approval
88.9%
field 96.8%
Median days
393
84 faster than the field
Median offered wage
$110,406above 74%
Approval rate
88.9%ahead of 12%
Median days to decision
393 daysahead of 75%
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
- AIRBNB, INC. 3 filings
- CUMMINS INC. 3 filings
- SERVICENOW, INC. 3 filings
- ALTEN TECHNOLOGY USA, INC. 2 filings
- CHEWY, INC. DBA CHEWY.COM 2 filings
- D3 LLC 2 filings
The employers with the most applications under this code. 15 of 335 filings, 4% of the total.
Firms filing it
- Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen Loewy, LLP 31 filings · 87.1% approved
- Berry Appleman Leiden LLP 9 filings
- Elizabeth Reed Law Firm PLLC 5 filings
- Jackson Lewis PC 5 filings
- Berardi Immigration Law 4 filings
- Dentons Cohen Grigsby P.C. 4 filings
The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 58 of 335 filings, 17% of the total.
Where the jobs are
- California 66
- Florida 57
- Texas 51
- New York 28
- New Jersey 14
- Georgia 12
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 228 of 335 filings.
Where this sits in the ranking
Ranked 146 of 1,410 by volume: 145 filed at least as many filings, and 1,264 filed no more.
- Just above
- Coaches and Scouts 335 filings
- Just below
- Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education 334 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.
- #140 Quality Control Systems Managers 363 filings · 6 denied
- #157 Architectural and Engineering Managers 308 filings · 8 denied
- #162 Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers 294 filings · 26 denied
- #170 Financial Managers 274 filings · 13 denied
- #114 Marketing Manager 474 filings · 14 denied
- #180 Purchasing Managers 243 filings · 7 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