All occupations · #350 of 1,410 by volume
Nonfarm Animal Caretakers
SOC 39-2021, in the personal care and service major group. 81 PERM filings in DOL's current disclosure window, 36 certified and 37 denied.
Median wage
$23,442
all PERM $103,272
Filings
81
#350 of 1,410
Approval
49.3%
field 96.8%
Median days
379
98 faster than the field
Median offered wage
$23,442above 2%
Approval rate
49.3%ahead of 0.0%
Median days to decision
379 daysahead of 96%
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
- Cherie DeVaux Racing Inc. 11 filings
- TODD A. PLETCHER RACING STABLES, INC. 11 filings
- C. R. McGaughey Racing Stable 8 filings
- Kathleen OConnell Racing Stables, Inc. 7 filings
- Damon Dilodovico Racing Stable, LLC 6 filings
- MARY E. EPPLER RACING STABLES, INC. 6 filings
The employers with the most applications under this code. 49 of 81 filings, 60% of the total.
Firms filing it
- Law Offices of Ron Katiraei 26 filings
- William Velie Attorney at Law, PLLC 25 filings
- George E Crimarco PA 11 filings
- Harris Beach, PLLC 3 filings
- PASCUAL LAW, PLLC 2 filings
- LLG Attorney at Law 1 filings
The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 68 of 81 filings, 84% of the total.
Where the jobs are
- New York 19
- Kentucky 18
- Maryland 16
- Florida 15
- California 10
- Michigan 1
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 79 of 81 filings.
Where this sits in the ranking
Ranked 350 of 1,410 by volume: 349 filed at least as many filings, and 1,060 filed no more.
- Just above
- Database Administrators 81 filings
- Just below
- Directors, Religious Activities and Education 80 filings
Other personal care and 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.
- #355 First-Line Supervisors of Personal Service Workers 79 filings · 2 denied
- #339 Amusement and Recreation Attendants 83 filings · 2 denied
- #383 Manicurists and Pedicurists 71 filings · 12 denied
- #398 Skincare Specialists 66 filings · 3 denied
- #269 Personal Care Aides 128 filings · 42 denied
- #439 Animal Trainers 56 filings · 6 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