All occupations · #125 of 1,410 by volume
Rehabilitation Counselors
SOC 21-1015.00, in the community and social service major group. 408 PERM filings in DOL's current disclosure window, 375 certified and 2 denied.
Median wage
$27,789
all PERM $103,272
Filings
408
#125 of 1,410
Approval
99.5%
field 96.8%
Median days
505
28 slower than the field
Median offered wage
$27,789above 6%
Approval rate
99.5%ahead of 89%
Median days to decision
505 daysahead of 0.7%
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
- THE DEVEREUX FOUNDATION 361 filings · 99.7% approved
- The Home for Little Wanderers 27 filings
- Amazing Grace Supports Inc 6 filings
- Hillcrest Educational Centers' Inc. 6 filings
- AHRC NYC 1 filings
- Boston Higashi School, Inc. 1 filings
The employers with the most applications under this code. 402 of 408 filings, 99% of the total.
Firms filing it
- DUANE MORRIS LLP 388 filings · 99.7% approved
- Clark Lau LLC 7 filings
- Law Office of Ronald D Richey 6 filings
- Akst and Akst PLLC 2 filings
- Borene Law Firm, P.A. 1 filings
- Immigration Legal Office 1 filings
The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 405 of 408 filings, 99% of the total.
Where the jobs are
- Pennsylvania 319
- Massachusetts 76
- Maryland 7
- New York 3
- California 1
- Minnesota 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 407 of 408 filings.
Where this sits in the ranking
Ranked 125 of 1,410 by volume: 124 filed at least as many filings, and 1,285 filed no more.
- Just above
- Family Medicine Physicians 413 filings
- Just below
- Regulatory Affairs Specialists 407 filings
Other community and social 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.
- #163 Clergy 292 filings · 10 denied
- #250 Mental Health Counselors 144 filings · 1 denied
- #298 Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors 104 filings · 7 denied
- #351 Directors, Religious Activities and Education 80 filings · 2 denied
- #428 Health Education Specialists 59 filings · none denied
- #462 Healthcare Social Workers 49 filings · 3 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