Updated October 16, 2026

PERM occupation, SOC 41-4012.00, #189 of 1,410 by filings

Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scienti

208 H-1B LCAs

Biggest sponsor: JFC International, Inc. · 2% of its filings
Busiest state: FL · 29% of its filings
Major group: Sales · SOC 41

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

This rate is level with the field

Over 218 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

$54,528

all PERM $103,272

Filings

230

#189 of 1,410

Approval

94.5%

field 96.8%

Median days

487

10 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.

Position in the field 535 occupations with 30+ decided

Median offered wage

$54,528above 39%

$18k $500k

Approval rate

94.5%ahead of 35%

49% 100%

Median days to decision

487 daysahead of 13%

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

The wage ladder, year by year Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scienti, certified offers

5th to 95th
25th to 75th
Median
10th and 90th

FY2025

$50,523 median · 127 certified cases
FY2026

$58,298 median · 70 certified cases

$40k$60k$80k$100k

10th: $39,450; +11.1% since FY2025
Median: $58,298; +15.4% since FY2025
90th: $99,012; +15.2% since FY2025
95th: $103,950; +13.5% since FY2025

Each row is that fiscal year's certified filings, counted on their own. A percentile is over the year, so a year with far fewer cases behind it is a thinner measurement than one with more.

Offered wage percentiles by fiscal year, with the number of certified cases behind each row.
Fiscal year	Cases	5th	10th	25th	Median	75th	90th	95th
FY2025	127	$33,500	$35,522	$39,208	$50,523	$72,821	$85,954	$91,562
FY2026	70	$37,306	$39,450	$44,013	$58,298	$78,998	$99,012	$103,950

A median answers whether pay moved. More

A median answers whether pay moved. The whole ladder answers which part of it moved, and those are not the same question: a distribution can hold its middle while its top stretches away.

DOL PERM disclosure files, certified cases only

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. 21 of 230 filings, 9% of the total.

Firms filing it

Law Offices of Carla A. Anzaldi, P.A. 11 filings
Law Office of Shayne J. Epstein, PA. 8 filings
Kamran I Makhdoom PLLC 7 filings
Kolko & Casey, P.C. 5 filings
Nelson and Associates 5 filings
PERM-ACTION LLC 4 filings

How this is counted

The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 40 of 230 filings, 17% of the total.

Where the jobs are

Florida 66
California 45
Texas 26
New York 17
Illinois 13
Georgia 10

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 177 of 230 filings.

Where the work is

Houston, TX 16
Los Angeles, CA 13
Miami, FL 13
New York, NY 10
Orlando, FL 5
Baltimore, MD 4

How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 61 of 230 filings.

Newspapers it advertised in

Miami Herald

27 cases
Los Angeles Times

22 cases
Sun-Sentinel

19 cases
Houston Chronicle

14 cases
Chicago Sun-Times

12 cases
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

9 cases

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

Job search websites

73 cases
Local or ethnic newspapers

70 cases
Radio or TV ads

38 cases
The employer's website

16 cases
Employee referral programs

14 cases
Campus placement offices

10 cases

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

Under 30 days

0.0%
30 to 59 days

0.0%
60 to 89 days

35%
90 to 119 days

28%
120 to 149 days

17%
150 to 180 days

20%
Over 180 days

0.5%

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.

Where every PERM employer recruits

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 3
Pakistan 2
Brazil 1
Burkina Faso 1
Canada 1
Japan 1

Worker's education

Bachelor's 5
Associate's 2
High School 1
Master's 1
None 1

Visa held when filed

F-1 3
B-2 1
H-1B 1
L-1 1
L-2 1

Schools

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA 2
BOARD OF INTERMEDIATE EDUCATION KARACHI 1
BRUNEL UNIVERSITY 1
ECOLE DES CADRES 1
FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 1
LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY OF BRAZIL 1

Fields of study

MARKETING 3
BIOLOGY 1
BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 1
BUSINESS MANAGEMENT 1
FASHION MERCHANDISING MANGEMENT 1
MASTERS OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 1

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
1,238,190 jobs
Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX
Houston
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA
Los Angeles
Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL
Miami
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ
New York
Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL
Orlando

$50k$100k$150k

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	$72,080
Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX	$73,030	$42,266	$62,358	$82,472	$102,565
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$74,490	$45,947	$64,854	$83,762	$102,669
Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL	$62,400	$40,518	$58,469	$76,398	$94,349
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$81,140	$52,603	$74,298	$95,992	$117,686
Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL	$61,410	$39,749	$57,325	$74,922	$92,498

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 Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX, 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, Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX
Wage year	Level I	Level II	Level III	Level IV
2026-27	$42,266	$62,358	$82,472	$102,565
2025-26	$41,517	$60,445	$79,394	$98,322
2024-25	$39,458	$58,011	$76,586	$95,139
2023-24	$39,374	$57,304	$75,213	$93,142
2022-23	$35,235	$52,499	$69,742	$87,006
2021-22	$37,045	$58,136	$79,248	$100,339

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

What the job is

Sell goods for wholesalers or manufacturers to businesses or groups of individuals. Work requires substantial knowledge of items sold.

Preparation: Considerable Preparation Needed; O*NET Job Zone 4
DOL's education basis: High school diploma or equivalent; Wage year 2026-27
Jobs, 2025 to 2035: -0.9%; About 99,800 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

Answer customers' questions about products, prices, availability, product uses, and credit terms.
Recommend products to customers, based on customers' needs and interests.
Estimate or quote prices, credit or contract terms, warranties, and delivery dates.
Consult with clients after sales or contract signings to resolve problems and to provide ongoing support.
Prepare sales contracts and order forms.
Provide customers with product samples and catalogs.

The education workers in it report

Some College Courses

14%

Titles people use for it

Outside Sales Representative, Sales Consultant, Sales Representative (Sales Rep), Salesman, Account Representative, Customer Account Technician, Inside Salesperson, Route Sales Representative.

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 189 of 1,410 by volume: 188 filed at least as many filings, and 1,221 filed no more.

Just above: Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians 231 filings
Just below: Biochemists and Biophysicists 229 filings

Other sales 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

208 certified H-1B labor condition applications for this occupation since FY2020, offering a median of $67,738 a year; the middle half ran $56,000 to $90,000. 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 41-4012.00. 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 230 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 Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scienti. The measured factors are on the denial risk page, published as separate rates.
Nothing here is pending: All 230 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 JFC International, Inc.. 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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