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PERM occupation, SOC 13-1081, #208 of 1,410 by filings
Logisticians
- Biggest sponsor
- APPLE INC. · 9% of its filings
- Busiest state
- CA · 29% of its filings
- Major group
- Business and financial · SOC 13
Weighing an offer for this job?
Where it falls among certified offers, and the four wage levels DOL sets for it by area.
Median wage
$85,000
all PERM $103,272
Filings
207
#208 of 1,410
Approval
94.1%
field 96.8%
Median days
386
91 faster 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.
Median offered wage
$85,000above 61%
Approval rate
94.1%ahead of 32%
Median days to decision
386 daysahead of 86%
Each bar counts occupations at that value. More
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
- APPLE INC. 19 filings
- AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC 17 filings
- NB VENTURES DBA GLOBAL EPROCURE 7 filings
- EASTMAN CHEMICAL COMPANY 6 filings
- AMAZON DATA SERVICES, INC. 4 filings
- CUMMINS INC. 4 filings
How this is counted
The employers with the most applications under this code. 57 of 207 filings, 28% of the total.
Firms filing it
- Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen Loewy, LLP 46 filings · 97.8% approved
- Berry Appleman Leiden LLP 23 filings
- Global Immigration Associates, P.C. 8 filings
- Ogletree Deakins 5 filings
- Seyfarth Shaw LLP 5 filings
- EY Law LLP 4 filings
How this is counted
The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 91 of 207 filings, 44% of the total.
Where the jobs are
- California 60
- Texas 24
- Florida 21
- Washington 17
- Illinois 15
- Georgia 12
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 149 of 207 filings.
Where the work is
- Cupertino, CA 19
- Seattle, WA 14
- Miami, FL 8
- Clark, NJ 7
- Atlanta, GA 6
- Fieldale, VA 6
How this is counted
The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 60 of 207 filings.
- Every sponsor that files it, by state, approval rate, offered wage and time to a decision
- Every filing for it, PERM, wage requests and H-1B, case by case
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
- India 763
- China 476
- South Korea 275
- Mexico 146
- Taiwan 121
- Brazil 113
Worker's education
- Master's 1,467
- Bachelor's 1,003
- None 132
- High School 45
- Associate's 42
- Other 31
Visa held when filed
- H-1B 1,578
- L-1 339
- F-1 262
- E-2 94
- NOT IN USA 61
- J-1 42
Schools
- THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS 60
- THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY 47
- ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY 42
- NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY 35
- THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY 35
- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 34
Fields of study
- BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 571
- INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING 248
- SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT 145
- MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 62
- ECONOMICS 58
- INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING 58
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.
- United States251,040 jobs
- San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CACupertino
- Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WASeattle
- Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FLMiami
- New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJClark
- Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GAAtlanta
- middle half of pay (BLS)
- median
- 10th to 90th percentile
- DOL's Levels I to IV, left to right
- median PERM offer
| Area | BLS median | Level I | Level II | Level III | Level IV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | $82,320 | ||||
| San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA | $115,570 | $78,666 | $100,422 | $122,158 | $143,915 |
| Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA | $108,920 | $82,950 | $100,672 | $118,373 | $136,094 |
| Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL | $69,480 | $48,464 | $61,464 | $74,464 | $87,464 |
| New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ | $92,540 | $67,018 | $83,013 | $99,029 | $115,024 |
| Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA | $77,570 | $51,106 | $64,834 | $78,582 | $92,310 |
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
DOL's levels for this job in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA, 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.
| Wage year | Level I | Level II | Level III | Level IV |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | $78,666 | $100,422 | $122,158 | $143,915 |
| 2025-26 | $78,437 | $100,589 | $122,762 | $144,914 |
| 2024-25 | $74,901 | $97,240 | $119,600 | $141,939 |
| 2023-24 | $72,758 | $93,267 | $113,776 | $134,285 |
| 2022-23 | $72,717 | $92,144 | $111,592 | $131,019 |
| 2021-22 | $75,878 | $96,034 | $116,210 | $136,365 |
What the job is
Analyze and coordinate the ongoing logistical functions of a firm or organization. Responsible for the entire life cycle of a product, including acquisition, distribution, internal allocation, delivery, and final disposal of resources.
- Preparation
- Considerable Preparation Needed
- O*NET Job Zone 4
- DOL's education basis
- Bachelor's degree
- Wage year 2026-27, on DOL's Appendix A list
- Jobs, 2025 to 2035
- +17.6%
- About 26,600 openings a year (BLS)
- Typical entry
- Bachelor's degree
- BLS
Bright Outlook O*NET OnLine lists this job for rapid growth.
The work, most important first
- Maintain and develop positive business relationships with a customer's key personnel involved in, or directly relevant to, a logistics activity.
- Develop an understanding of customers' needs and take actions to ensure that such needs are met.
- Manage subcontractor activities, reviewing proposals, developing performance specifications, and serving as liaisons between subcontractors and organizations.
- Develop proposals that include documentation for estimates.
- Review logistics performance with customers against targets, benchmarks, and service agreements.
- Direct availability and allocation of materials, supplies, and finished products.
The education workers in it report
- 8%
High School Diploma or the equivalent (such as a GED)
- 8%
Post-Secondary Certificate
- 8%
Some College Courses
- 75%
Bachelor's Degree
Titles people use for it
Client Services Administrator, Logistician, Production Planner, Supply Management Specialist.
O*NET also describes Logistics Engineers and Logistics Analysts under this SOC code.
Related jobs: Logistics Analysts, Supply Chain Managers, Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers, Logistics Engineers, Project Management Specialists, Purchasing Managers.
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 208 of 1,410 by volume: 207 filed at least as many filings, and 1,202 filed no more.
- Just above
- Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers 209 filings
- Just below
- Credit Analysts 205 filings
Other business and financial 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.
- #209 Credit Analysts 205 filings · 5 denied
- #219 Training and Development Specialists 188 filings · 7 denied
- #221 Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products 186 filings · 6 denied
- #225 Logistics Engineers 180 filings · 3 denied
- #230 Budget Analysts 170 filings · 3 denied
- #232 N/A 169 filings · 7 denied
The same job on H-1B
14,520 certified H-1B labor condition applications for this occupation since FY2020, offering a median of $88,185 a year; the middle half ran $70,000 to $115,000. 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 13-1081. 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 207 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 Logisticians. The measured factors are on the denial risk page, published as separate rates.
- Nothing here is pending
- All 207 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 APPLE 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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- When it'll likely be decided
- An email when DOL moves it