All occupations · #62 of 1,410 by volume
HelpersProduction Workers
SOC 51-9198, in the production major group. 1,002 PERM filings in DOL's current disclosure window, 920 certified and 80 denied.
Median wage
$27,955
all PERM $103,272
Filings
1,002
#62 of 1,410
Approval
92.0%
field 96.8%
Median days
384
93 faster than the field
Median offered wage
$27,955above 7%
Approval rate
92.0%ahead of 21%
Median days to decision
384 daysahead of 90%
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
- LABOR GUYS, LLC 292 filings · 99.7% approved
- MONTEREY MUSHROOMS, INC. 170 filings · 80.0% approved
- Jessicas Brick Oven 101 filings · 100.0% approved
- HYDRO EXTRUSION USA, LLC 67 filings · 100.0% approved
- UW PROVISION COMPANY INC 65 filings · 100.0% approved
- Schreiber Foods, Inc. 55 filings · 100.0% approved
The employers with the most applications under this code. 750 of 1,002 filings, 75% of the total.
Firms filing it
- Law Offices of Corey D. Boddie, Esq., LLC 101 filings · 100.0% approved
- WK Law Group, PC 67 filings · 100.0% approved
- DELAFUENTE LAW LLC 65 filings · 100.0% approved
- LO Immigration Legal USA Office 8 filings
- LO Immigration Legal USA 2 filings
- Immigration Law Group, PC 1 filings
The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 244 of 1,002 filings, 24% of the total.
Where the jobs are
- Texas 131
- Georgia 116
- Massachusetts 101
- Indiana 91
- Ohio 78
- New Jersey 74
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 591 of 1,002 filings.
Where this sits in the ranking
Ranked 62 of 1,410 by volume: 61 filed at least as many filings, and 1,348 filed no more.
- Just above
- Mechanical Engineers 1,004 filings
- Just below
- Architectural and Engineering Managers 988 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.
- #76 Slaughterers and Meat Packers 832 filings · 36 denied
- #38 Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers 1,797 filings · 14 denied
- #24 Team Assemblers 2,504 filings · 5 denied
- #101 Team Assemblers 523 filings · 12 denied
- #16 Helpers--Production Workers 3,399 filings · 40 denied
- #3 Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers 9,306 filings · 46 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