All occupations · #155 of 1,410 by volume
Mathematical Science Teachers, Postsecondary
SOC 25-1022.00, in the education and library major group. 309 PERM filings in DOL's current disclosure window, 283 certified and 6 denied.
This rate is level with the field
Computed over 289 decided filings. The 95% interval runs up to a 4.5% 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
$82,390
all PERM $103,272
Filings
309
#155 of 1,410
Approval
97.9%
field 96.8%
Median days
471
6 faster than the field
Median offered wage
$82,390above 60%
Approval rate
97.9%ahead of 66%
Median days to decision
471 daysahead of 61%
- 5th to 95th
- 25th to 75th
- Median
- 10th and 90th
FY2025
$80,000 median · 144 certified cases
FY2026
$85,862 median · 115 certified cases
- 10th
- $60,585
- +20.3% since FY2025
- Median
- $85,862
- +7.3% since FY2025
- 90th
- $129,780
- +11.7% since FY2025
- 95th
- $139,300
- +5.5% 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 | 144 | $48,950 | $50,370 | $61,938 | $80,000 | $95,000 | $116,190 | $131,993 |
| FY2026 | 115 | $56,605 | $60,585 | $68,122 | $85,862 | $107,830 | $129,780 | $139,300 |
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
- Michigan State University 7 filings
- The Florida State University 7 filings
- Univ of WI System 6 filings
- Arizona State University 5 filings
- Auburn University 5 filings
- Columbia University 5 filings
The employers with the most applications under this code. 35 of 309 filings, 11% of the total.
Firms filing it
- Dunn Law Firm, LLP 10 filings
- Wolfsdorf Rosenthal LLP 9 filings
- Ware | Immigration 8 filings
- McCandlish Holton, PC 7 filings
- Fragomen, Del Rey Bernsen & Loewy LLP 6 filings
- Kramer Partners LLP 6 filings
The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 46 of 309 filings, 15% of the total.
Where the jobs are
- Texas 25
- California 24
- New York 22
- Virginia 15
- Indiana 14
- Florida 13
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 113 of 309 filings.
Where this sits in the ranking
Ranked 155 of 1,410 by volume: 154 filed at least as many filings, and 1,255 filed no more.
- Just above
- Computer User Support Specialists 315 filings
- Just below
- Biostatisticians 308 filings
Other education and library 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.
- #148 Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary 329 filings · 4 denied
- #147 Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education 334 filings · 6 denied
- #165 N/A 287 filings · 47 denied
- #172 Economics Teachers, Postsecondary 269 filings · 5 denied
- #178 Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary 246 filings · 3 denied
- #123 Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary 422 filings · 5 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