All occupations · #44 of 1,410 by volume
Sales Engineers
SOC 41-9031.00, in the sales major group. 1,397 PERM filings in DOL's current disclosure window, 1,295 certified and 26 denied.
Median wage
$141,773
all PERM $103,272
Filings
1,397
#44 of 1,410
Approval
98.0%
field 96.8%
Median days
482
5 slower than the field
Median offered wage
$141,773above 90%
Approval rate
98.0%ahead of 67%
Median days to decision
482 daysahead of 33%
- 5th to 95th
- 25th to 75th
- Median
- 10th and 90th
FY2024
$146,684 median · 55 certified cases
FY2025
$141,773 median · 708 certified cases
FY2026
$141,773 median · 532 certified cases
- 10th
- $94,016
- +4.6% since FY2024
- Median
- $141,773
- -3.3% since FY2024
- 90th
- $190,998
- +6.4% since FY2024
- 95th
- $200,304
- +3.3% since FY2024
These years are not measuring the same group of filings. The count moves by 12.9 times between the largest year and the smallest, so a change in the ladder is at least partly a change in which employers filed rather than a change in what the work pays. Read the shape, not the difference.
| Fiscal year | Cases | 5th | 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024 | 55 | $75,931 | $89,881 | $115,501 | $146,684 | $163,613 | $179,520 | $193,888 |
| FY2025 | 708 | $79,017 | $94,259 | $117,818 | $141,773 | $168,894 | $186,421 | $200,000 |
| FY2026 | 532 | $80,010 | $94,016 | $117,638 | $141,773 | $175,925 | $190,998 | $200,304 |
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
- MICROSOFT CORPORATION 106 filings · 100.0% approved
- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. 45 filings · 100.0% approved
- Salesforce, Inc. 40 filings · 100.0% approved
- Cisco Systems, Inc. 39 filings · 100.0% approved
- Databricks, Inc. 29 filings
- Oracle America, Inc. 21 filings
The employers with the most applications under this code. 280 of 1,397 filings, 20% of the total.
Firms filing it
- Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP 293 filings · 98.6% approved
- Berry Appleman & Leiden LLP 120 filings · 100.0% approved
- Tafapolsky & Smith LLP 107 filings · 99.0% approved
- Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak and Stewart, P.C. 89 filings · 100.0% approved
- Corporate Immigration Partners, P.C. 67 filings · 100.0% approved
- Erickson Immigration Group 47 filings · 100.0% approved
The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 723 of 1,397 filings, 52% of the total.
Where the jobs are
- California 537
- Texas 178
- New York 86
- Washington 82
- Massachusetts 70
- Michigan 58
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 1,011 of 1,397 filings.
Where this sits in the ranking
Ranked 44 of 1,410 by volume: 43 filed at least as many filings, and 1,366 filed no more.
- Just above
- Computer Programmers 1,436 filings
- Just below
- Marketing Managers 1,382 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.
- #92 First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers 691 filings · 37 denied
- #132 Sales Engineers 397 filings · 8 denied
- #136 Cashiers 382 filings · 25 denied
- #138 Retail Salespersons 369 filings · 26 denied
- #168 Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents 277 filings · 4 denied
- #189 Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scienti 230 filings · 12 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