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All occupations · #54 of 1,410 by volume

Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners

SOC 37-2011.00, in the building and grounds maintenance major group. 1,180 PERM filings in DOL's current disclosure window, 1,053 certified and 58 denied.

Median wage

$30,576

all PERM $103,272

Filings

1,180

#54 of 1,410

Approval

94.8%

field 96.8%

Median days

476

1 faster than the field

Fig 01 Position in the field 535 occupations with 30+ decided

Median offered wage

$30,576above 10%

$18k $500k

Approval rate

94.8%ahead of 36%

49% 100%

Median days to decision

476 daysahead of 50%

323d 536d
Each bar counts occupations at that value. PERM runs two labour markets through one process, which is why the wage axis is two humps rather than a bell. The line marks this one. DOL PERM disclosure files
Fig 02 The wage ladder, year by year Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners, certified offers
  • 5th to 95th
  • 25th to 75th
  • Median
  • 10th and 90th

  1. FY2025

    $31,200 median · 609 certified cases

  2. FY2026

    $29,120 median · 399 certified cases

$20k$25k$30k$35k$40k$45k
10th
$24,960
+8.2% since FY2025
Median
$29,120
-6.7% since FY2025
90th
$33,280
-20.0% since FY2025
95th
$35,360
-15.0% since FY2025

Each row is that fiscal year's certified filings, counted on their own. A percentile is over the year, so a year with far fewer cases behind it is a thinner measurement than one with more.

A median answers whether pay moved. The whole ladder answers which part of it moved, and those are not the same question: a distribution can hold its middle while its top stretches away. DOL PERM disclosure files, certified cases only

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

  1. GDI SERVICES INC. 258 filings · 100.0% approved
  2. Controlled Contamination Services 170 filings · 87.6% approved
  3. SEJ Services, LLC 125 filings · 100.0% approved
  4. SPACE COAST SERVICES MANAGEMENT, INC. 88 filings · 100.0% approved
  5. Jack's Maintenance Service, Inc. 43 filings · 100.0% approved
  6. Florida Plastering & Pool Remodeling, LLC 36 filings · 75.0% approved

The employers with the most applications under this code. 720 of 1,180 filings, 61% of the total.

Firms filing it

  1. American International & Immigration Law, PC 452 filings · 94.9% approved
  2. Momentum Immigration 125 filings · 100.0% approved
  3. Law Office of David Yurkofsky, Esq. 46 filings · 100.0% approved
  4. Immigration Solutions of America, LLC 43 filings · 70.3% approved
  5. VOX IMMIGRATION LLC 37 filings
  6. Immigration Office Solutions 24 filings

The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 727 of 1,180 filings, 62% of the total.

Where the jobs are

  • Florida 179
  • Georgia 111
  • Illinois 108
  • Michigan 91
  • California 85
  • North Carolina 79

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 653 of 1,180 filings.

Where this sits in the ranking

Ranked 54 of 1,410 by volume: 53 filed at least as many filings, and 1,356 filed no more.

Just above
Operations Research Analysts 1,183 filings
Just below
Statisticians 1,136 filings

Other building and grounds maintenance 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.

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