All occupations · #299 of 1,410 by volume
Industrial Machinery Mechanics
SOC 49-9041.00, in the installation, maintenance and repair major group. 103 PERM filings in DOL's current disclosure window, 96 certified and 6 denied.
This rate is level with the field
Computed over 102 decided filings. The 95% interval runs up to a 12.2% 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
$66,165
all PERM $103,272
Filings
103
#299 of 1,410
Approval
94.1%
field 96.8%
Median days
481
4 slower than the field
Median offered wage
$66,165above 48%
Approval rate
94.1%ahead of 32%
Median days to decision
481 daysahead of 36%
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
- IMA America Corporation 13 filings
- Morse Hydraulics USA, LLC 6 filings
- C&C North America, Inc. 4 filings
- Sewon America, Inc. 4 filings
- Alfa Laval Inc. 3 filings
- Consolidated Catfish Producers LLC 3 filings
The employers with the most applications under this code. 33 of 103 filings, 32% of the total.
Firms filing it
- Brown Immigration Law 13 filings
- Law Offices of Brenda J. DeArmas-Ricci 7 filings
- Chua Tinsay & Vega 6 filings
- Garfinkel Immigration Law Firm 5 filings
- Fragomen Del Rey Bernsen & Loewy LLP 4 filings
- Lee & Partners LLC 4 filings
The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 39 of 103 filings, 38% of the total.
Where the jobs are
- North Carolina 18
- Texas 14
- Georgia 13
- Alabama 8
- Louisiana 7
- Florida 5
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 65 of 103 filings.
Where this sits in the ranking
Ranked 299 of 1,410 by volume: 298 filed at least as many filings, and 1,111 filed no more.
- Just above
- Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors 104 filings
- Just below
- Solar Energy Systems Engineers 103 filings
Other installation, maintenance and repair 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.
- #242 Bus and Truck Mechanics and Diesel Engine Specialists 156 filings · 11 denied
- #360 Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers 77 filings · 3 denied
- #377 Automotive Body and Related Repairers 72 filings · 6 denied
- #216 First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers 189 filings · 10 denied
- #215 Farm Equipment Mechanics and Service Technicians 190 filings · 5 denied
- #412 Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers 62 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