All occupations · #83 of 1,410 by volume
Heavy and TractorTrailer Truck Drivers
SOC 53-3032, in the transportation and material moving major group. 781 PERM filings in DOL's current disclosure window, 679 certified and 96 denied.
Median wage
$54,288
all PERM $103,272
Filings
781
#83 of 1,410
Approval
87.6%
field 96.8%
Median days
392
85 faster than the field
Median offered wage
$54,288above 38%
Approval rate
87.6%ahead of 10%
Median days to decision
392 daysahead of 77%
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
- POLMAX LLC dba Experior Transport 79 filings · 100.0% approved
- PLANET LOGISTICS INC. 55 filings · 100.0% approved
- BRIGHT SKY TRANSPORT LLC 36 filings · 100.0% approved
- EMS Serrot LLC 34 filings · 100.0% approved
- ALL FRIENDS ENTERPRISES, LLC DBA AF SERVICES 29 filings
- FORZA TRANSPORTATION SERVICES, INC. 29 filings
The employers with the most applications under this code. 262 of 781 filings, 34% of the total.
Firms filing it
- Kurczaba Law Offices PC 128 filings · 100.0% approved
- Najla AbuShaaban Associates, PC 118 filings · 100.0% approved
- Hammond Neal Moore 111 filings · 98.2% approved
- Miranda and Maldonado PC 63 filings · 100.0% approved
- Kriezelman Burton Associates, LLC 50 filings · 68.0% approved
- Experienced Associates LLC 48 filings · 79.2% approved
The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 518 of 781 filings, 66% of the total.
Where the jobs are
- Illinois 291
- Texas 203
- Michigan 57
- Nebraska 33
- Iowa 24
- Oregon 22
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 630 of 781 filings.
Where this sits in the ranking
Ranked 83 of 1,410 by volume: 82 filed at least as many filings, and 1,327 filed no more.
- Just above
- Nursing Assistants 781 filings
- Just below
- Graders and Sorters, Agricultural Products 765 filings
Other transportation and material moving 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.
- #85 Stockers and Order Fillers 756 filings · 17 denied
- #67 Cleaners of Vehicles and Equipment 905 filings · 4 denied
- #99 Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand 586 filings · 11 denied
- #109 Packers and Packagers, Hand 497 filings · 76 denied
- #37 Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand 1,832 filings · 3 denied
- #23 Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers 2,590 filings · 728 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