Updated October 16, 2026

PERM occupation, SOC 29-2011, #58 of 1,410 by filings

SOC 29-2011

14,053 H-1B LCAs

Biggest sponsor: Management Health Systems, LLC DBA MedPro · 35% of its filings
Busiest state: FL · 36% of its filings
Major group: Healthcare practitioners · SOC 29

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

DOL's job-title cell is unusable on these rows, so the code is the only name they have.

Median wage

$54,080

all PERM $103,272

Filings

1,135

#58 of 1,410

Approval

99.0%

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.

Position in the field 535 occupations with 30+ decided

Median offered wage

$54,080above 38%

$18k $500k

Approval rate

99.0%ahead of 84%

49% 100%

Median days to decision

386 daysahead of 86%

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 same job, state by state 2 states filing enough of this occupation to publish a ladder

5th to 95th
25th to 75th
Median
10th and 90th

FL

$56,576 median · 396 certified cases
TX

$54,080 median · 342 certified cases

$50k$52k$54k$56k$58k$60k

Offered wage percentiles by state, with the number of certified cases behind each row.
State	Cases	5th	10th	25th	Median	75th	90th	95th
FL	396	$56,576	$56,576	$56,576	$56,576	$56,576	$56,576	$56,576
TX	342	$54,080	$54,080	$54,080	$54,080	$54,080	$54,080	$54,080

One SOC code, one federal process, and a wage range that moves with the state. More

One SOC code, one federal process, and a wage range that moves with the state. A state is included only when it files enough certified cases of this occupation to support seven percentiles; the rest are left out rather than drawn thin.

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

Management Health Systems, LLC DBA MedPro 392 filings · 100.0% approved
CONEXUS MEDSTAFF LLC 346 filings · 99.4% approved
HEALTH CAROUSEL, LLC 198 filings · 100.0% approved
ARUP LABORATORIES 66 filings · 100.0% approved
Comanche County Hospital Authority dba Comanche 10 filings
Southern Illinois Hospital Services 8 filings

How this is counted

The employers with the most applications under this code. 1,020 of 1,135 filings, 90% of the total.

Firms filing it

Musillo Unkenholt, LLC 716 filings · 100.0% approved
University of Utah Office of General Counsel 66 filings · 100.0% approved
Akerman LLP 15 filings
Bruner Law Group, PLLC 11 filings
Kempster, Corcoran, Quiceno LenzCalvo, LTD 11 filings
Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen Loewy, LLP 10 filings

How this is counted

The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 829 of 1,135 filings, 73% of the total.

Where the jobs are

Florida 404
Texas 354
Ohio 200
Utah 69
California 16
Illinois 13

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 1,056 of 1,135 filings.

Where the work is

Sunrise, FL 392
Houston, TX 346
Cincinnati, OH 198
Salt Lake City, UT 66
Lawton, OK 10
Carbondale, IL 8

How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 1,020 of 1,135 filings.

Newspapers it advertised in

San Francisco Chronicle

3 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

3 cases
Local or ethnic newspapers

3 cases
Radio or TV ads

3 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

0.0%
60 to 89 days

100%
90 to 119 days

0.0%
120 to 149 days

0.0%
150 to 180 days

0.0%
Over 180 days

0.0%

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

Philippines 3,267
Nepal 88
India 62
Jamaica 59
South Korea 35
Nigeria 33

Worker's education

Bachelor's 3,714
Master's 93
Other 11
Doctorate 10
Associate's 4
High School 4

Visa held when filed

H-1B 1,973
NOT IN USA 472
F-1 58
TN 21
B-2 16
TPS 7

Schools

VELEZ COLLEGE 215
UNIVERSITY OF SANTO TOMAS 206
SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY 194
CENTRO ESCOLAR UNIVERSITY 170
UNIVERSITY OF SAN AGUSTIN 166
FAR EASTERN UNIVERSITY 144

Fields of study

MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY 2,462
MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE 743
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY 147
CLINICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE 50
MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCES 29
MEDICAL TECHNOLOGYMEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE 29

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, DOL wage year 2026-27

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL
Sunrise
Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX
Houston
Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN
Cincinnati
Salt Lake City-Murray, UT
Salt Lake City
Lawton, OK
Lawton

$40k$50k$60k$70k$80k

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

Market pay and DOL wage levels, by area
Area	BLS median	Level I	Level II	Level III	Level IV
Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL	—	$40,290	$53,269	$66,248	$79,227
Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX	—	$42,203	$52,998	$63,773	$74,568
Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN	—	$45,198	$56,222	$67,267	$78,291
Salt Lake City-Murray, UT	—	$38,938	$47,507	$56,077	$64,646
Lawton, OK	—	$37,211	$50,794	$64,397	$77,979

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 Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL, 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, Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL
Wage year	Level I	Level II	Level III	Level IV
2026-27	$40,290	$53,269	$66,248	$79,227
2025-26	$39,811	$52,187	$64,542	$76,918
2024-25	$37,315	$49,712	$62,088	$74,485
2023-24	$34,965	$46,010	$57,034	$68,078
2022-23	$32,614	$42,869	$53,102	$63,357
2021-22	$32,864	$43,701	$54,517	$65,354

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

What the job is

Perform complex medical laboratory tests for diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. May train or supervise staff.

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

The work, most important first

Analyze samples of biological material for chemical content or reaction.
Analyze laboratory findings to check the accuracy of the results.
Conduct chemical analysis of body fluids, including blood, urine, or spinal fluid, to determine presence of normal or abnormal components.
Enter data from analysis of medical tests or clinical results into computer for storage.
Collect and study blood samples to determine the number of cells, their morphology, or their blood group, blood type, or compatibility for transfusion purposes, using microscopic techniques.
Set up, clean, and maintain laboratory equipment.

The education workers in it report

Bachelor's Degree

52%
Post-Baccalaureate Certificate

14%

Titles people use for it

Clinical Laboratory Scientist (CLS), Clinical Laboratory Technologist, Medical Lab Technologist (Medical Laboratory Technologist), Medical Technologist (MT), Clinical Chemist, Histologist Technologist, Lab Tech (Laboratory Technologist), Microbiology Technologist (MT).

O*NET also describes Cytogenetic Technologists, Cytotechnologists and Histotechnologists under this SOC code.

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 58 of 1,410 by volume: 57 filed at least as many filings, and 1,352 filed no more.

Just above: Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks 1,135 filings
Just below: Statisticians 1,115 filings

Other healthcare practitioners 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

14,053 certified H-1B labor condition applications for this occupation since FY2020, offering a median of $61,152 a year; the middle half ran $55,910 to $71,552. 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 29-2011. 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 1,135 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 SOC 29-2011. The measured factors are on the denial risk page, published as separate rates.
Nothing here is pending: All 1,135 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 Management Health Systems, LLC DBA MedPro. 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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