Updated October 16, 2026

PERM occupation, SOC 37-3011.00, #11 of 1,410 by filings

Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers

3 H-1B LCAs

Biggest sponsor: Rotolo Consultants, Inc. · 3% of its filings
Busiest state: MO · 11% of its filings
Major group: Building and grounds maintenance · SOC 37

Weighing an offer for this job?

Where it falls among certified offers, and the four wage levels DOL sets for it by area.

Compare my offer DOL's wage levels for this job

This rate is level with the field

Over 4,345 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 4.1% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

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

What it pays

Where its median offer sits among every occupation, then the whole ladder of certified offers by year and by state.

Position in the field 535 occupations with 30+ decided

Median offered wage

$34,100above 16%

$18k $500k

Approval rate

96.5%ahead of 50%

49% 100%

Median days to decision

483 daysahead of 29%

323d 536d

Each bar counts occupations at that value. More

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

The wage ladder, year by year Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers, certified offers

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

$20k$30k$40k$50k

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.

Offered wage percentiles by fiscal year, with the number of certified cases behind each row.
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

A median answers whether pay moved. 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 it

The sponsors and firms with the most PERM filings under this code, the places the work sits, and who the workers were.

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

How this is counted

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

How this is counted

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

How this is counted

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 the work is

St. Louis, MO 91
St. Charles, MO 79
High Ridge, MO 54
Chesterfield, MO 51
Slidell, LA 50
Baton Rouge, LA 42

How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 367 of 4,449 filings.

Newspapers it advertised in

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

465 cases
The Denver Post

196 cases
Austin American-Statesman

144 cases
The Dallas Morning News

126 cases
The Indianapolis Star

125 cases
The Plain Dealer

123 cases

How this is counted

The newspaper or professional journal named for each case's two print ads, one count per paper per case, however the filer spelled it.

Additional steps it used

Job search websites

2 cases
Radio or TV ads

2 cases
The employer's website

1 cases
Local or ethnic newspapers

1 cases

How this is counted

The steps a professional job needs beyond the job order and the ads, by the number of cases that name each.

How long before filing it began

Under 30 days

0.0%
30 to 59 days

under 0.1%
60 to 89 days

36%
90 to 119 days

17%
120 to 149 days

12%
150 to 180 days

33%
Over 180 days

1.6%

How this is counted

Days from the first recruitment step to the filing. 20 C.F.R. § 656.17(e) puts the job order and ads 30 to 180 days before filing.

Where every PERM employer recruits

Who filled these jobs, FY2016 to FY2023

From DOL's old form; the form in use since mid-2023 doesn't carry them. Top six of each.

Country of citizenship

Mexico 49
El Salvador 14
Jamaica 12
Brazil 11
Ecuador 4
Guatemala 2

Worker's education

None 90
High School 3
Other 1

Visa held when filed

H-2B 38
EWI 7
F-1 6
B-2 2
NOT IN USA 2
H-2A 1

Schools

CAMILO GALLEGOS DOMINQUEZ 1
CBTA NO56 EXTENCIN SOTO LA MARINA 1
COLEGIO ROMEO LUNA VICTORIA 1
DR. GABINO BARRERA 1
ESCUELA PATRIA 1
EZEQUIEL CARDENAS ESPINOZA 1

Fields of study

HIGH SCHOOL 4
ACADEMIC 1
GENERAL 1

The job itself

What O*NET says the work is, what the market pays it by BLS's survey, its outlook, and DOL's wage levels year by year.

What the job pays outside PERM BLS May 2025, DOL wage year 2026-27

United States
952,640 jobs
St. Louis, MO-IL
St. Louis, St. Charles, High Ridge
Slidell-Mandeville-Covington, LA
Slidell
Baton Rouge, LA
Baton Rouge

$30k$40k$50k

middle half of pay (BLS)
median
10th to 90th percentile
DOL's Levels I to IV, left to right
median PERM offer

Market pay and DOL wage levels, by area
Area	BLS median	Level I	Level II	Level III	Level IV
United States	$39,150
St. Louis, MO-IL	$39,040	$34,840	$38,730	$42,598	$46,488
Slidell-Mandeville-Covington, LA	$36,030	$29,411	$32,157	$34,923	$37,669
Baton Rouge, LA	$36,260	$28,434	$31,928	$35,443	$38,938

How these figures fit together

BLS surveys employers on what they pay everyone in a job; DOL builds its four levels from the same survey a year later (the July 2026 wage year uses BLS's May 2025 estimates). DOL publishes levels by area, not nationally, so the United States line has none. Levels are hourly in DOL's tables; here they're shown a year at 2,080 hours, as DOL computes them. The metros are the ones holding the most of this job's PERM filings, placed by Census's county files.

The block is the middle half of what employers report paying everyone in this job, citizen or not; the ticks under it are DOL's four prevailing wage levels for that metro, the floors a PERM or H-1B offer is held to. More

BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics; DOL OFLC wage tables

DOL's levels for this job in St. Louis, MO-IL, year by year

Each July DOL resets the four levels from BLS's newest survey. A determination keeps the figures of the year it was issued in.

DOL wage levels by wage year, St. Louis, MO-IL
Wage year	Level I	Level II	Level III	Level IV
2026-27	$34,840	$38,730	$42,598	$46,488
2025-26	$33,758	$37,461	$41,163	$44,866
2024-25	$32,885	$36,504	$40,102	$43,722
2023-24	$29,037	$32,781	$36,525	$40,269
2022-23	$26,894	$31,075	$35,235	$39,416
2021-22	$25,085	$28,912	$32,718	$36,546

Every area and both wage tables in the wage-level tool.

What the job is

Landscape or maintain grounds of property using hand or power tools or equipment. Workers typically perform a variety of tasks, which may include any combination of the following: sod laying, mowing, trimming, planting, watering, fertilizing, digging, raking, sprinkler installation, and installation of mortarless segmental concrete masonry wall units.

Preparation: Very Little to Some Preparation Needed; O*NET Job Zone 1-2
DOL's education basis: None; Wage year 2026-27
Jobs, 2025 to 2035: +4.7%; About 149,500 openings a year (BLS)
Typical entry: No formal educational credential; BLS

Bright Outlook O*NET OnLine lists this job for rapid growth and numerous job openings.

The work, most important first

Mow or edge lawns, using power mowers or edgers.
Operate vehicles or powered equipment, such as mowers, tractors, twin-axle vehicles, snow blowers, chainsaws, electric clippers, sod cutters, or pruning saws.
Use hand tools, such as shovels, rakes, pruning saws, saws, hedge or brush trimmers, or axes.
Prune or trim trees, shrubs, or hedges, using shears, pruners, or chain saws.
Gather and remove litter.
Trim or pick flowers and clean flower beds.

Titles people use for it

Greenskeeper, Groundskeeper, Groundsman, Landscaper, Athletic Fieldskeeper, Grounds Maintenance Worker, Grounds Specialist, Landscape Specialist.

This section includes information from the O*NET 31.0 Database and O*NET OnLine by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. PERM Tracker has modified some of this information (the shares are rounded and only the top tasks are shown); what changed. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications.

Against other jobs

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. More

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.

The same job on H-1B

3 certified H-1B labor condition applications for this occupation since FY2020, offering a median of $31,200 a year; the middle half ran $30,160 to $34,018. By state and year in the salary explorer.

Notes on these numbers

Reading the wage

A floor, not a salary survey: every level and metro mixed. DOL's four wage levels for this job, by area.

What the median 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. The levels page reads DOL's OFLC wage search live.

What these numbers don't say

4 notes

The code is the identity: This one is SOC 37-3011.00. 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 all 4,449 wages 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, so nothing here is a property of Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers. The measured factors are on the denial risk page, published as separate rates.
Nothing here is pending: All 4,449 counted here carry a decision date, because every case in DOL's disclosure files does, so a case still waiting is in none of them. The largest filer of this occupation is Rotolo Consultants, Inc.. Where the queue stands today is on the processing times page.

The window these figures cover: DOL's PERM disclosure files for fiscal years 2024 to 2026, through the third quarter of 2026, 373,939 decided cases. Nothing pending is counted here. How each figure is built

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.

Filings newer than DOL's last published file can't be attributed to this occupation until DOL publishes them. The live list on the case search page carries them by employer.

Case data: DOL quarterly disclosure files (flag.dol.gov) · data through Jun 30, 2026 · quarterly

Employers and firms: Derived from DOL's disclosure files · data through Jun 30, 2026 · rebuilt with each quarterly load

O*NET occupation data: O*NET Database, USDOL/ETA (onetcenter.org) · data through Aug 16, 2026 · twice a year

BLS market pay: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (bls.gov) · data through May 31, 2025 · yearly, each spring

BLS employment projections: BLS Employment Projections (bls.gov) · data through Dec 31, 2025 · yearly, each autumn

DOL wage tables: DOL OFLC wage data downloads (flag.dol.gov) · data through Jul 1, 2026 · yearly, each july

What each source includes

Case data: Decided PERM cases only. A case still waiting isn't in here, so counts and durations describe finished cases.

Employers and firms: Employers, law firms and occupations ranked from decided cases only.

O*NET occupation data: What O*NET says each occupation is and takes: its description, tasks, Job Zone and the education workers report. A description of the job everywhere, not of any one employer's opening.

BLS market pay: What employers report paying everyone in each job, nationally, by state and by metro, from BLS's yearly survey (May of the year named). Citizens and immigrants alike; not PERM offers.

BLS employment projections: BLS's ten-year projection of each job's employment and yearly openings, and the entry education it calls typical. A projection, not a count.

DOL wage tables: The four prevailing wage levels DOL publishes for every job in every area, each wage year from 2021-22, as DOL's own tables print them. The floors an offer is held to, not what anyone was paid.

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