All occupations · #512 of 1,410 by volume
SOC 21-1014
SOC 21-1014, in the community and social service major group. 38 PERM filings in DOL's current disclosure window, 36 certified and 2 denied. DOL's job-title cell is unusable on these rows, so the code is the only name they have.
This rate is level with the field
Computed over 38 decided filings. The 95% interval runs up to a 17.3% 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
$50,606
all PERM $103,272
Filings
38
#512 of 1,410
Approval
94.7%
field 96.8%
Median days
396
81 faster than the field
Median offered wage
$50,606above 33%
Approval rate
94.7%ahead of 36%
Median days to decision
396 daysahead of 74%
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
- GANDARA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC. 6 filings
- PURDUE UNIVERSITY 3 filings
- Wayside Youth Family Support Network, Inc. 2 filings
- A Better Life Therapy LLC 1 filings
- ACMH, INC. 1 filings
- BEHAVIORAL AND EDUCATIONAL SOLUTIONS.P.C 1 filings
The employers with the most applications under this code. 14 of 38 filings, 37% of the total.
Firms filing it
- Vartanian Vartanian LLP 6 filings
- Jackson Lewis PC 2 filings
- Antonini and Cohen Immigration Law Group 1 filings
- Aum Lee, LLC 1 filings
- Chun Fruto Law Corporation 1 filings
- Cowan Miller Lederman 1 filings
The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 12 of 38 filings, 32% of the total.
Where the jobs are
- Massachusetts 8
- California 4
- Indiana 4
- New York 4
- Illinois 3
- North Carolina 2
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 25 of 38 filings.
Where this sits in the ranking
Ranked 512 of 1,410 by volume: 511 filed at least as many filings, and 898 filed no more.
- Just above
- Travel Agents 38 filings
- Just below
- Receptionists and Information Clerks 38 filings
Other community and social 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.
- #506 Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Workers 39 filings · 2 denied
- #504 Clergy 40 filings · 2 denied
- #462 Healthcare Social Workers 49 filings · 3 denied
- #575 Child, Family, and School Social Workers 25 filings · none denied
- #428 Health Education Specialists 59 filings · none denied
- #605 Social and Human Service Assistants 22 filings · 1 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