All occupations · #1,257 of 1,410 by volume

SOC 2605581

SOC 2605581. 1 PERM filings in DOL's current disclosure window, 1 certified and 0 denied. DOL's job-title cell is unusable on these rows, so the code is the only name they have.

Too few cases for a rate

1 decided filing, so there's no approval rate here. Across every PERM case DOL decided in this window, 3.20% were denied. At that rate a file this size comes back clean most of the time whatever the occupation did, so a percentage would be a fact about how few cases there are. Telling a clean record apart from the field takes about 117 decided cases.

Median wage

$85,000

all PERM $103,272

Filings

#1,257 of 1,410

Approval

—

withheld: 1 decided

Median days

512

middle of 1 decided

Fig 01 Position in the field 535 occupations with 30+ decided

Median offered wage

$85,000median of 1 filings, too few decided to rank

$18k $500k

Approval rate

not shownunder 30 decided

49% 100%

Median days to decision

512 daysmiddle of 1 decided, too few to rank

323d 536d

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. This occupation has 1 decided cases, so its wage and its median days are marked but left unranked, and no approval rate is drawn at all. DOL PERM disclosure files

Where this sits in the ranking

Ranked 1,257 of 1,410 by volume: 1,256 filed at least as many filings, and 153 filed no more.

Just above: Information and Record Clerks, All Other 1 filings
Just below: Power Plant Operators 1 filings

Occupations at this volume

The occupations ranked either side of this one by filing volume. This row has no readable SOC code, so it can’t be grouped with its own line of work.

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