All occupations · #186 of 1,410 by volume
Nursery Worker
SOC 45-2092, in the farming, fishing and forestry major group. 234 PERM filings in DOL's current disclosure window, 224 certified and 8 denied.
This rate is level with the field
Computed over 232 decided filings. The 95% interval runs up to a 6.7% 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
$22,880
all PERM $103,272
Filings
234
#186 of 1,410
Approval
96.6%
field 96.8%
Median days
391
86 faster than the field
Median offered wage
$22,880above 2%
Approval rate
96.6%ahead of 51%
Median days to decision
391 daysahead of 79%
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
- NATURES WAY FARMS, LLC. 79 filings · 100.0% approved
- R PLANTS INC 52 filings · 100.0% approved
- SUNRISE OF NASHVILLE INC 8 filings
- A. F. SECOR NURSERY, LLC 7 filings
- SATURN FIVE NURSERY, LLC DBA THE GOOD EARTH 7 filings
- DOUBLE JF FARMS 6 filings
The employers with the most applications under this code. 159 of 234 filings, 68% of the total.
Firms filing it
- DEVEER CONSULTING, LLC 131 filings · 100.0% approved
- PETERS CONSULTING 28 filings
- Ozment Law, PLC 8 filings
- Alabasi and Associates Co LPA 7 filings
- LAW OFFICE OF DANNA YOUNG, P.A. 7 filings
- LAW OFFICES OF DANIEL J SULLIVAN, ESQ 7 filings
The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 188 of 234 filings, 80% of the total.
Where the jobs are
- Florida 131
- Texas 24
- Arkansas 13
- Kansas 11
- New York 10
- Tennessee 8
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 197 of 234 filings.
Where this sits in the ranking
Ranked 186 of 1,410 by volume: 185 filed at least as many filings, and 1,224 filed no more.
- Just above
- Chefs and Head Cooks 234 filings
- Just below
- Customer Service Representatives 232 filings
Other farming, fishing and forestry 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.
- #149 First-Line Supervisors of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Workers 326 filings · 26 denied
- #223 Animal Breeders 183 filings · 1 denied
- #128 Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals 405 filings · 55 denied
- #119 Agricultural Equipment Operators 450 filings · 30 denied
- #84 Graders and Sorters, Agricultural Products 765 filings · none denied
- #74 Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse 847 filings · 31 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