All occupations · #373 of 1,410 by volume
Retail Salespersons
SOC 41-2031, in the sales major group. 74 PERM filings in DOL's current disclosure window, 57 certified and 17 denied.
Median wage
$30,368
all PERM $103,272
Filings
74
#373 of 1,410
Approval
77.0%
field 96.8%
Median days
380
97 faster than the field
Median offered wage
$30,368above 10%
Approval rate
77.0%ahead of 3%
Median days to decision
380 daysahead of 95%
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
- Vineland Investments Inc 13 filings
- DEL AUTOMOTIVE INC 3 filings
- Huda Inc. 3 filings
- AFFORDABLE GRANITE CONCEPTS INC 2 filings
- BEST WAY INTERNATIONAL LLC 2 filings
- BSC RUGS LLC 2 filings
The employers with the most applications under this code. 25 of 74 filings, 34% of the total.
Firms filing it
- DELAFUENTE LAW LLC 13 filings
- Rodney Bernstein, P.A. 7 filings
- Quan Law Group PLLC 4 filings
- Santos Law Firm PL 4 filings
- Anil Ali PC 3 filings
- Goldblum, Pollins Dennis, P.C. 3 filings
The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 34 of 74 filings, 46% of the total.
Where the jobs are
- Florida 31
- Texas 16
- New York 7
- California 4
- Pennsylvania 3
- Massachusetts 2
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 63 of 74 filings.
Where this sits in the ranking
Ranked 373 of 1,410 by volume: 372 filed at least as many filings, and 1,037 filed no more.
- Just above
- Animal Caretaker 74 filings
- Just below
- Education Administrators, Postsecondary 73 filings
Other sales 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.
- #376 Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Serv 73 filings · 6 denied
- #389 Cashiers 69 filings · 3 denied
- #340 Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents 83 filings · 5 denied
- #415 First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers 62 filings · 10 denied
- #420 Admin. Assistant and Sales Representative 61 filings · 8 denied
- #472 Insurance Sales Agents 47 filings · 6 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