All occupations · #79 of 1,410 by volume
Manicurists and Pedicurists
SOC 39-5092.00, in the personal care and service major group. 794 PERM filings in DOL's current disclosure window, 712 certified and 32 denied.
This rate is level with the field
Computed over 744 decided filings. The 95% interval runs up to a 6.0% 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
$33,342
all PERM $103,272
Filings
794
#79 of 1,410
Approval
95.7%
field 96.8%
Median days
490
13 slower than the field
Median offered wage
$33,342above 15%
Approval rate
95.7%ahead of 43%
Median days to decision
490 daysahead of 7%
- 5th to 95th
- 25th to 75th
- Median
- 10th and 90th
FY2025
$33,020 median · 397 certified cases
FY2026
$34,010 median · 310 certified cases
- 10th
- $22,090
- -3.5% since FY2025
- Median
- $34,010
- +3.0% since FY2025
- 90th
- $40,000
- +0.0% since FY2025
- 95th
- $40,056
- +0.1% 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.
| Fiscal year | Cases | 5th | 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 397 | $21,008 | $22,880 | $27,040 | $33,020 | $40,000 | $40,000 | $40,000 |
| FY2026 | 310 | $20,717 | $22,090 | $28,655 | $34,010 | $40,000 | $40,000 | $40,056 |
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
- Magical Nails LLC 20 filings
- WL Nails Inc 20 filings
- Mindy's Nails 17 filings
- LUXURY NAILS & SPA, INC 15 filings
- VELLAGIO NAILS SPA 14 filings
- Diamond Nail LLC 12 filings
The employers with the most applications under this code. 98 of 794 filings, 12% of the total.
Firms filing it
- JLJ Law Group, PLLC 227 filings · 95.6% approved
- Vietnamese Business Immigration Services PLLC 136 filings · 98.3% approved
- Benjamin M. Li, PLLC 28 filings
- Do Law Office 28 filings
- Wolzen Law Office 26 filings
- Jennifer C Ha, PLLC DBA JLJ Law Group 22 filings
The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 467 of 794 filings, 59% of the total.
Where the jobs are
- North Carolina 55
- Virginia 51
- California 45
- Illinois 45
- Florida 40
- Utah 37
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 273 of 794 filings.
Where this sits in the ranking
Ranked 79 of 1,410 by volume: 78 filed at least as many filings, and 1,331 filed no more.
- Just above
- Business Teachers, Postsecondary 819 filings
- Just below
- Cooks, Restaurant 793 filings
Other personal care and service 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