Updated October 16, 2026

PERM occupation, SOC 43-9061, #267 of 1,410 by filings

Office Services Specialist

22 H-1B LCAs

Biggest sponsor: Intuition Employment, LLC · 5% of its filings
Busiest state: CA · 31% of its filings
Major group: Office and administrative support · SOC 43

Weighing an offer for this job?

Where it falls among certified offers, and the four wage levels DOL sets for it by area.

Compare my offer DOL's wage levels for this job

Median wage

$31,990

all PERM $103,272

Filings

131

#267 of 1,410

Approval

93.1%

field 96.8%

Median days

385

92 faster than the field

What it pays

Where its median offer sits among every occupation, then the whole ladder of certified offers by year and by state.

Position in the field 535 occupations with 30+ decided

Median offered wage

$31,990above 12%

$18k $500k

Approval rate

93.1%ahead of 28%

49% 100%

Median days to decision

385 daysahead of 89%

323d 536d

Each bar counts occupations at that value. More

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. The line marks this one.

DOL PERM disclosure files

Who files it

The sponsors and firms with the most PERM filings under this code, the places the work sits, and who the workers were.

Sponsors filing it

How this is counted

The employers with the most applications under this code. 26 of 131 filings, 20% of the total.

Firms filing it

Ji Law Firm APC 27 filings
GONDIM LAW CORP 6 filings
Do Law Office 5 filings
Law Office of Kennon Peebles jr 5 filings
LAW OFFICE OF FRED VOIGTMANN PC 4 filings
LAW OFFICES OF D ROBERT JONES PLLC 4 filings

How this is counted

The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 51 of 131 filings, 39% of the total.

Where the jobs are

California 40
Georgia 19
Florida 12
New Jersey 9
New York 9
Maryland 6

How this is counted

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 95 of 131 filings.

Where the work is

Los Angeles, CA 8
Duluth, GA 6
LaGrange, GA 6
Dalton, GA 5
Oakland, CA 5
Irvine, CA 4

How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 34 of 131 filings.

Who filled these jobs, FY2016 to FY2023

From DOL's old form; the form in use since mid-2023 doesn't carry them. Top six of each.

Country of citizenship

South Korea 499
Brazil 75
Venezuela 57
Philippines 25
Mexico 22
Vietnam 19

Worker's education

High School 379
None 364
Bachelor's 96
Associate's 34
Master's 16
Other 6

Visa held when filed

F-1 306
B-2 135
E-2 58
NOT IN USA 45
F-2 28
J-1 27

Schools

YOUNGSAN UNIVERSITY 4
EL COLEGIO DE LA PRESENTACIÓN SAN FERNANDO 3
UNIVERSITY MAURICIO DE NASSAU RECIFE 3
YONGSAN TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL 3
ACADEMIE DE NICE 2
BUKWON GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL 2

Fields of study

GENERAL EDUCATION 67
HIGH SCHOOL 42
GENERAL 41
GENERAL STUDIES 38
ACADEMICS 27
BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 22

The job itself

What O*NET says the work is, what the market pays it by BLS's survey, its outlook, and DOL's wage levels year by year.

What the job pays outside PERM BLS May 2025, DOL wage year 2026-27

United States
2,464,940 jobs
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA
Los Angeles, Irvine
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA
Duluth
Middle Georgia nonmetropolitan area
LaGrange
Dalton, GA
Dalton
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA
Oakland

$40k$60k$80k

middle half of pay (BLS)
median
10th to 90th percentile
DOL's Levels I to IV, left to right
median PERM offer

Market pay and DOL wage levels, by area
Area	BLS median	Level I	Level II	Level III	Level IV
United States	$45,010
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$48,100	$37,856	$44,387	$50,918	$57,450
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA	$43,330	$30,992	$37,606	$44,242	$50,856
Middle Georgia nonmetropolitan area	$38,220	$28,184	$33,717	$39,270	$44,803
Dalton, GA	$39,310	$29,099	$34,466	$39,853	$45,219
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$52,000	$40,768	$48,818	$56,867	$64,917

How these figures fit together

BLS surveys employers on what they pay everyone in a job; DOL builds its four levels from the same survey a year later (the July 2026 wage year uses BLS's May 2025 estimates). DOL publishes levels by area, not nationally, so the United States line has none. Levels are hourly in DOL's tables; here they're shown a year at 2,080 hours, as DOL computes them. The metros are the ones holding the most of this job's PERM filings, placed by Census's county files.

The block is the middle half of what employers report paying everyone in this job, citizen or not; the ticks under it are DOL's four prevailing wage levels for that metro, the floors a PERM or H-1B offer is held to. More

BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics; DOL OFLC wage tables

DOL's levels for this job in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA, year by year

Each July DOL resets the four levels from BLS's newest survey. A determination keeps the figures of the year it was issued in.

DOL wage levels by wage year, Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA
Wage year	Level I	Level II	Level III	Level IV
2026-27	$37,856	$44,387	$50,918	$57,450
2025-26	$36,941	$43,389	$49,837	$56,285
2024-25	$35,568	$41,662	$47,757	$53,851
2023-24	$33,238	$39,125	$44,990	$50,877
2022-23	$31,512	$37,773	$44,034	$50,294
2021-22	$28,891	$35,110	$41,330	$47,549

Every area and both wage tables in the wage-level tool.

What the job is

Perform duties too varied and diverse to be classified in any specific office clerical occupation, requiring knowledge of office systems and procedures. Clerical duties may be assigned in accordance with the office procedures of individual establishments and may include a combination of answering telephones, bookkeeping, typing or word processing, office machine operation, and filing.

Preparation: Very Little to Some Preparation Needed; O*NET Job Zone 1-2
DOL's education basis: High school diploma or equivalent; Wage year 2026-27
Jobs, 2025 to 2035: -6.0%; About 249,000 openings a year (BLS)
Typical entry: High school diploma or equivalent; BLS

Bright Outlook O*NET OnLine lists this job for numerous job openings.

The work, most important first

Operate office machines, such as photocopiers and scanners, facsimile machines, voice mail systems, and personal computers.
Answer telephones, direct calls, and take messages.
Communicate with customers, employees, and other individuals to answer questions, disseminate or explain information, take orders, and address complaints.
Maintain and update filing, inventory, mailing, and database systems, either manually or using a computer.
Compile, copy, sort, and file records of office activities, business transactions, and other activities.
Review files, records, and other documents to obtain information to respond to requests.

The education workers in it report

High School Diploma or the equivalent (such as a GED)

41%
Post-Secondary Certificate

7%
Some College Courses

15%
Associate's Degree or other 2-year degree

36%

Titles people use for it

Clerk, Office Assistant, Office Clerk, Office Services Specialist, Administrative Clerk (Admin Clerk), Clerical Aide, Clerical Assistant, General Clerk.

This section includes information from the O*NET 31.0 Database and O*NET OnLine by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. PERM Tracker has modified some of this information (the shares are rounded and only the top tasks are shown); what changed. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications.

Against other jobs

Where this sits in the ranking

Ranked 267 of 1,410 by volume: 266 filed at least as many filings, and 1,143 filed no more.

Just above: Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers 131 filings
Just below: Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria 130 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. More

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.

The same job on H-1B

22 certified H-1B labor condition applications for this occupation since FY2020, offering a median of $31,689 a year; the middle half ran $29,120 to $37,424. By state and year in the salary explorer.

Notes on these numbers

Reading the wage

A floor, not a salary survey: every level and metro mixed. DOL's four wage levels for this job, by area.

What the median 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. The levels page reads DOL's OFLC wage search live.

What these numbers don't say

4 notes

The code is the identity: This one is SOC 43-9061. 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 all 131 wages 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, so nothing here is a property of Office Services Specialist. The measured factors are on the denial risk page, published as separate rates.
Nothing here is pending: All 131 counted here carry a decision date, because every case in DOL's disclosure files does, so a case still waiting is in none of them. The largest filer of this occupation is Intuition Employment, LLC. Where the queue stands today is on the processing times page.

The window these figures cover: DOL's PERM disclosure files for fiscal years 2024 to 2026, through the third quarter of 2026, 373,939 decided cases. Nothing pending is counted here. How each figure is built

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.

Filings newer than DOL's last published file can't be attributed to this occupation until DOL publishes them. The live list on the case search page carries them by employer.

Case data: DOL quarterly disclosure files (flag.dol.gov) · data through Jun 30, 2026 · quarterly

Employers and firms: Derived from DOL's disclosure files · data through Jun 30, 2026 · rebuilt with each quarterly load

O*NET occupation data: O*NET Database, USDOL/ETA (onetcenter.org) · data through Aug 16, 2026 · twice a year

BLS market pay: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (bls.gov) · data through May 31, 2025 · yearly, each spring

BLS employment projections: BLS Employment Projections (bls.gov) · data through Dec 31, 2025 · yearly, each autumn

DOL wage tables: DOL OFLC wage data downloads (flag.dol.gov) · data through Jul 1, 2026 · yearly, each july

What each source includes

Case data: Decided PERM cases only. A case still waiting isn't in here, so counts and durations describe finished cases.

Employers and firms: Employers, law firms and occupations ranked from decided cases only.

O*NET occupation data: What O*NET says each occupation is and takes: its description, tasks, Job Zone and the education workers report. A description of the job everywhere, not of any one employer's opening.

BLS market pay: What employers report paying everyone in each job, nationally, by state and by metro, from BLS's yearly survey (May of the year named). Citizens and immigrants alike; not PERM offers.

BLS employment projections: BLS's ten-year projection of each job's employment and yearly openings, and the entry education it calls typical. A projection, not a count.

DOL wage tables: The four prevailing wage levels DOL publishes for every job in every area, each wage year from 2021-22, as DOL's own tables print them. The floors an offer is held to, not what anyone was paid.

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