All occupations · #115 of 1,410 by volume
Office Clerks, General
SOC 43-9061.00, in the office and administrative support major group. 465 PERM filings in DOL's current disclosure window, 408 certified and 34 denied.
Median wage
$35,942
all PERM $103,272
Filings
465
#115 of 1,410
Approval
92.3%
field 96.8%
Median days
485
8 slower than the field
Median offered wage
$35,942above 19%
Approval rate
92.3%ahead of 22%
Median days to decision
485 daysahead of 20%
- 5th to 95th
- 25th to 75th
- Median
- 10th and 90th
FY2025
$35,600 median · 238 certified cases
FY2026
$37,274 median · 148 certified cases
- 10th
- $27,180
- +7.4% since FY2025
- Median
- $37,274
- +4.7% since FY2025
- 90th
- $51,274
- +0.8% since FY2025
- 95th
- $54,447
- -2.3% since FY2025
Each row is that fiscal year's certified filings, counted on their own. A percentile is over the year, so a year with far fewer cases behind it is a thinner measurement than one with more.
| Fiscal year | Cases | 5th | 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 238 | $24,443 | $25,314 | $30,410 | $35,600 | $43,035 | $50,877 | $55,723 |
| FY2026 | 148 | $26,837 | $27,180 | $31,974 | $37,274 | $46,779 | $51,274 | $54,447 |
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
- Perez Gardini, LLC 21 filings
- Cava Beauty Supply, LLC 8 filings
- FFL Enterprises, Inc. 7 filings
- 2E Nail Supply, LLC (changed from 2E Organic Supply, LLC on 09/18/2023) 6 filings
- Hospice Best Care, Inc. 6 filings
- First Care, Inc. 5 filings
The employers with the most applications under this code. 53 of 465 filings, 11% of the total.
Firms filing it
- WORK FORCE LLC 18 filings
- GJK Law Group 15 filings
- Law Office of Kennon Peebles 12 filings
- GONDIM LAW CORP 10 filings
- IMIGRA FOUNDATION LTD 9 filings
- LAW OFFICE OF YONG IL JEONG, P.C. 9 filings
The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 73 of 465 filings, 16% of the total.
Where the jobs are
- California 106
- Florida 97
- Massachusetts 48
- Texas 38
- Georgia 37
- New York 37
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 363 of 465 filings.
Where this sits in the ranking
Ranked 115 of 1,410 by volume: 114 filed at least as many filings, and 1,295 filed no more.
- Just above
- Marketing Manager 474 filings
- Just below
- Paralegals and Legal Assistants 463 filings
Other office and administrative support 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.
- #151 First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers 321 filings · 8 denied
- #158 Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants 305 filings · 22 denied
- #70 Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive 871 filings · 52 denied
- #57 Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks 1,135 filings · 45 denied
- #174 Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks 268 filings · 27 denied
- #181 ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT 238 filings · 28 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