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PERM occupation, SOC 43-5061.00, #440 of 1,410 by filings
Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks
- Biggest sponsor
- Skyline Transport Group LLC · 5% of its filings
- Busiest state
- FL · 32% 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.
This rate is level with the field
Over 56 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.
Why
The 95% interval runs up to a 9.4% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.
Median wage
$56,368
all PERM $103,272
Filings
56
#440 of 1,410
Approval
98.2%
field 96.8%
Median days
484
7 slower 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.
Median offered wage
$56,368above 40%
Approval rate
98.2%ahead of 71%
Median days to decision
484 daysahead of 24%
Each bar counts occupations at that value. More
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
- Skyline Transport Group LLC 3 filings
- Sewon America, Inc. 2 filings
- 3DECORATIVE PANEL SOLUTIONS, INC 1 filings
- Alpha Tek Automation, Inc. 1 filings
- ART WOOD CABINETS CORP 1 filings
- Berco of America, Inc. 1 filings
How this is counted
The employers with the most applications under this code. 9 of 56 filings, 16% of the total.
Firms filing it
- Law Office of David Yurkofsky, Esq. 3 filings
- Park and Associates PC 3 filings
- Kim, Song and Associates, PLLC 2 filings
- American Immigration Law, PLLC 1 filings
- ASTREA LEGAL SERVICES CORP 1 filings
- Brollesy Law LLC 1 filings
How this is counted
The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 11 of 56 filings, 20% of the total.
Where the jobs are
- Florida 18
- New York 7
- California 6
- Illinois 4
- New Jersey 3
- Washington 3
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 41 of 56 filings.
Where the work is
- New York, NY 4
- Pompano Beach, FL 4
- Vancouver, WA 3
- Deerfield Beach, FL 2
- LaGrange, GA 2
- Los Angeles, CA 2
How this is counted
The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 17 of 56 filings.
- Every sponsor that files it, by state, approval rate, offered wage and time to a decision
- Every filing for it, PERM, wage requests and H-1B, case by case
Newspapers it advertised in
- 6 cases
Sun-Sentinel
- 5 cases
Miami Herald
- 4 cases
Los Angeles Times
- 4 cases
The New York Times
- 3 cases
Chicago Sun-Times
- 3 cases
The Columbian
How this is counted
The newspaper or professional journal named for each case's two print ads, one count per paper per case, however the filer spelled it.
Additional steps it used
- 9 cases
Job search websites
- 8 cases
Local or ethnic newspapers
- 8 cases
Radio or TV ads
- 2 cases
Employee referral programs
- 2 cases
The employer's website
- 1 cases
Campus placement offices
How this is counted
The steps a professional job needs beyond the job order and the ads, by the number of cases that name each.
How long before filing it began
- 0.0%
Under 30 days
- 0.0%
30 to 59 days
- 48%
60 to 89 days
- 23%
90 to 119 days
- 18%
120 to 149 days
- 11%
150 to 180 days
- 0.0%
Over 180 days
How this is counted
Days from the first recruitment step to the filing. 20 C.F.R. § 656.17(e) puts the job order and ads 30 to 180 days before filing.
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.
- United States390,160 jobs
- Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FLPompano Beach, Deerfield Beach
- New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJNew York
- Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WAVancouver
- Middle Georgia nonmetropolitan areaLaGrange
- Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CALos Angeles
- middle half of pay (BLS)
- median
- 10th to 90th percentile
- DOL's Levels I to IV, left to right
- median PERM offer
| Area | BLS median | Level I | Level II | Level III | Level IV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | $59,650 | ||||
| Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL | $52,070 | $38,459 | $47,237 | $56,035 | $64,813 |
| New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ | $63,130 | $47,403 | $56,930 | $66,456 | $75,982 |
| Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA | $61,460 | $48,256 | $55,952 | $63,627 | $71,323 |
| Middle Georgia nonmetropolitan area | $52,190 | $39,562 | $46,883 | $54,184 | $61,506 |
| Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA | $61,810 | $45,240 | $55,037 | $64,813 | $74,610 |
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
DOL's levels for this job in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL, 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.
| Wage year | Level I | Level II | Level III | Level IV |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | $38,459 | $47,237 | $56,035 | $64,813 |
| 2025-26 | $37,170 | $45,885 | $54,579 | $63,294 |
| 2024-25 | $37,336 | $45,698 | $54,080 | $62,442 |
| 2023-24 | $34,653 | $42,994 | $51,314 | $59,654 |
| 2022-23 | $32,178 | $40,248 | $48,298 | $56,368 |
| 2021-22 | $27,186 | $35,069 | $42,973 | $50,856 |
What the job is
Coordinate and expedite the flow of work and materials within or between departments of an establishment according to production schedule. Duties include reviewing and distributing production, work, and shipment schedules; conferring with department supervisors to determine progress of work and completion dates; and compiling reports on progress of work, inventory levels, costs, and production problems.
- 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
- -1.3%
- About 32,600 openings a year (BLS)
- Typical entry
- High school diploma or equivalent
- BLS
The work, most important first
- Distribute production schedules or work orders to departments.
- Revise production schedules when required due to design changes, labor or material shortages, backlogs, or other interruptions, collaborating with management, marketing, sales, production, or engineering.
- Review documents, such as production schedules, work orders, or staffing tables, to determine personnel or materials requirements or material priorities.
- Arrange for delivery, assembly, or distribution of supplies or parts to expedite flow of materials and meet production schedules.
- Confer with establishment personnel, vendors, or customers to coordinate production or shipping activities and to resolve complaints or eliminate delays.
- Requisition and maintain inventories of materials or supplies necessary to meet production demands.
The education workers in it report
- 19%
Less than a High School Diploma
- 37%
High School Diploma or the equivalent (such as a GED)
- 9%
Post-Secondary Certificate
- 21%
Some College Courses
- 13%
Associate's Degree or other 2-year degree
Titles people use for it
Expeditor, Materials Planner, Production Planner, Production Scheduler, Inventory Control Specialist, Material Requirements Planner (MRP), Materials Coordinator, Production Assistant.
Related jobs: Project Management Specialists, Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks, First-Line Supervisors of Helpers, Laborers, and Material Movers, Hand, First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers, Weighers, Measurers, Checkers, and Samplers, Recordkeeping, First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers.
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 440 of 1,410 by volume: 439 filed at least as many filings, and 970 filed no more.
- Just above
- Animal Trainers 56 filings
- Just below
- Commercial Pilots 56 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.
- #455 Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants 51 filings · 2 denied
- #468 Order Clerks 48 filings · 1 denied
- #475 File Clerks 47 filings · none denied
- #399 Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants 66 filings · 3 denied
- #387 FirstLine Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers 70 filings · 5 denied
- #384 Customer Service Representatives 71 filings · 9 denied
The same job on H-1B
38 certified H-1B labor condition applications for this occupation since FY2020, offering a median of $54,319 a year; the middle half ran $46,688 to $67,000. 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 43-5061.00. 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 56 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 Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks. The measured factors are on the denial risk page, published as separate rates.
- Nothing here is pending
- All 56 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 Skyline Transport Group 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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