All occupations · #11 of 1,410 by volume
Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers
SOC 37-3011.00, in the building and grounds maintenance major group. 4,449 PERM filings in DOL's current disclosure window, 4,191 certified and 154 denied.
This rate is level with the field
Computed over 4,345 decided filings. The 95% interval runs up to a 4.1% 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
$34,100
all PERM $103,272
Filings
4,449
#11 of 1,410
Approval
96.5%
field 96.8%
Median days
483
6 slower than the field
Median offered wage
$34,100above 16%
Approval rate
96.5%ahead of 50%
Median days to decision
483 daysahead of 29%
- 5th to 95th
- 25th to 75th
- Median
- 10th and 90th
FY2024
$32,500 median · 134 certified cases
FY2025
$33,904 median · 2,478 certified cases
FY2026
$35,069 median · 1,573 certified cases
- 10th
- $28,621
- +16.2% since FY2024
- Median
- $35,069
- +7.9% since FY2024
- 90th
- $41,101
- +11.3% since FY2024
- 95th
- $44,408
- +17.2% since FY2024
These years are not measuring the same group of filings. The count moves by 18.5 times between the largest year and the smallest, so a change in the ladder is at least partly a change in which employers filed rather than a change in what the work pays. Read the shape, not the difference.
| Fiscal year | Cases | 5th | 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024 | 134 | $24,627 | $24,627 | $27,435 | $32,500 | $35,100 | $36,941 | $37,877 |
| FY2025 | 2,478 | $25,578 | $26,499 | $27,435 | $33,904 | $35,755 | $39,978 | $41,600 |
| FY2026 | 1,573 | $27,186 | $28,621 | $30,971 | $35,069 | $37,981 | $41,101 | $44,408 |
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
- Rotolo Consultants, Inc. 149 filings · 91.2% approved
- EARTHWORKS, Inc. 80 filings · 100.0% approved
- Terracare Associates, LLC 79 filings · 100.0% approved
- Ruppert Landscape, LLC 72 filings · 100.0% approved
- All Phase Landscape Construction, Inc. 61 filings · 100.0% approved
- SiteWorks Holding Co., Inc. 61 filings · 100.0% approved
The employers with the most applications under this code. 502 of 4,449 filings, 11% of the total.
Firms filing it
- Mason Law Firm, PLLC 1,500 filings · 100.0% approved
- CG Immigration Law LLC 503 filings · 93.8% approved
- Law Office of Wesley Mathis, PLLC 386 filings · 100.0% approved
- MAS Labor 365, LLC 228 filings · 100.0% approved
- USA Workforce Solutions, LLC 212 filings · 83.8% approved
- Action International, Inc. 154 filings · 100.0% approved
The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 2,983 of 4,449 filings, 67% of the total.
Where the jobs are
- Missouri 498
- Ohio 252
- Texas 199
- Virginia 150
- Louisiana 123
- Pennsylvania 116
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 1,338 of 4,449 filings.
Where this sits in the ranking
Ranked 11 of 1,410 by volume: 10 filed at least as many filings, and 1,399 filed no more.
- Just above
- Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technologists 4,581 filings
- Just below
- Computer and Information Systems Managers 3,717 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.
- #29 Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners 2,363 filings · 129 denied
- #54 Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners 1,180 filings · 58 denied
- #66 Landscape Laborer 907 filings · 268 denied
- #103 Janitors and Cleaners Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners 517 filings · 167 denied
- #112 First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers 486 filings · 53 denied
- #121 Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners 433 filings · 79 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