All occupations · #405 of 1,410 by volume
Geographic Information Systems Technologists and Technicians
SOC 15-1299.02, in the computer and mathematical major group. 64 PERM filings in DOL's current disclosure window, 59 certified and 2 denied.
This rate is level with the field
Computed over 61 decided filings. The 95% interval runs up to a 11.2% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records, so this record can't be told apart from the field in either direction.
Median wage
$87,180
all PERM $103,272
Filings
64
#405 of 1,410
Approval
96.7%
field 96.8%
Median days
488
11 slower than the field
Median offered wage
$87,180above 62%
Approval rate
96.7%ahead of 52%
Median days to decision
488 daysahead of 10%
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
- Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI) 12 filings
- MSRCOSMOS, LLC. 3 filings
- DNA SPECIALTY INC 2 filings
- LANGAN ENGINEERING AND ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES, INC. 2 filings
- Southwestern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission 2 filings
- THE BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP, INC. 2 filings
The employers with the most applications under this code. 23 of 64 filings, 36% of the total.
Firms filing it
- Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. 12 filings
- Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP 5 filings
- Chugh, LLP 3 filings
- Landau, Hess, Simon, Choi Doebley 2 filings
- LAW OFFICE OF JIM KAHNG, A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION 2 filings
- McCandlish Holton, PC 2 filings
The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 26 of 64 filings, 41% of the total.
Where the jobs are
- California 20
- Massachusetts 8
- Virginia 7
- Missouri 4
- Texas 4
- Wisconsin 4
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 47 of 64 filings.
Where this sits in the ranking
Ranked 405 of 1,410 by volume: 404 filed at least as many filings, and 1,005 filed no more.
- Just above
- Tile and Stone Setters 65 filings
- Just below
- Editors 63 filings
Other computer and mathematical 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.
- #359 Video Game Designers 77 filings · 3 denied
- #349 Database Administrators 81 filings · 5 denied
- #343 Software Developers, R&D 82 filings · 1 denied
- #338 Computer Systems Analysts, Non R&D 83 filings · none denied
- #476 Software Developers, Non RD SOC 151295 47 filings · 6 denied
- #330 Computer Network Architects 87 filings · 10 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