All occupations · #165 of 1,410 by volume
SOC 25-2021
SOC 25-2021, in the education and library major group. 287 PERM filings in DOL's current disclosure window, 238 certified and 47 denied. DOL's job-title cell is unusable on these rows, so the code is the only name they have.
Median wage
$57,795
all PERM $103,272
Filings
287
#165 of 1,410
Approval
83.5%
field 96.8%
Median days
388
89 faster than the field
Median offered wage
$57,795above 41%
Approval rate
83.5%ahead of 7%
Median days to decision
388 daysahead of 83%
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
- SAVANNAHCHATHAM COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM 61 filings · 100.0% approved
- DALLAS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT 27 filings
- DENVER COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT AKA DENVER PUBLIC SC 23 filings
- HOUSTON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT 8 filings
- MESQUITE ISD 8 filings
- CLEVELAND INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT 7 filings
The employers with the most applications under this code. 134 of 287 filings, 47% of the total.
Firms filing it
- Watts and Watts 61 filings · 100.0% approved
- Ramirez Associates 27 filings
- Fisher Phillips LLP 24 filings
- McKinney Immigration Law 19 filings
- Sivaraman Immigration Law 10 filings
- Cowles Thompson PC 8 filings
The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 149 of 287 filings, 52% of the total.
Where the jobs are
- Texas 64
- Georgia 62
- North Carolina 38
- Colorado 23
- California 18
- Arizona 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 218 of 287 filings.
Where this sits in the ranking
Ranked 165 of 1,410 by volume: 164 filed at least as many filings, and 1,245 filed no more.
- Just above
- Animal Caretakers 289 filings
- Just below
- Commercial and Industrial Designers 286 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.
- #172 Economics Teachers, Postsecondary 269 filings · 5 denied
- #155 Mathematical Science Teachers, Postsecondary 309 filings · 6 denied
- #178 Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary 246 filings · 3 denied
- #148 Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary 329 filings · 4 denied
- #147 Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education 334 filings · 6 denied
- #196 N/A 220 filings · 4 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