All occupations · #70 of 1,410 by volume

Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive

SOC 43-6014.00, in the office and administrative support major group. 871 PERM filings in DOL's current disclosure window, 775 certified and 52 denied.

Median wage

$41,922

all PERM $103,272

Filings

871

#70 of 1,410

Approval

93.7%

field 96.8%

Median days

490

13 slower than the field

Fig 01 Position in the field 535 occupations with 30+ decided

Median offered wage

$41,922above 25%

$18k $500k

Approval rate

93.7%ahead of 30%

49% 100%

Median days to decision

490 daysahead of 7%

323d 536d

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

Fig 02 The wage ladder, year by year Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive, certified offers

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

FY2025

$40,000 median · 447 certified cases
FY2026

$46,462 median · 280 certified cases

$20k$30k$40k$50k$60k

10th: $33,364; +17.5% since FY2025
Median: $46,462; +16.2% since FY2025
90th: $58,344; +9.4% since FY2025
95th: $59,301; +3.9% 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	447	$27,061	$28,397	$34,000	$40,000	$48,537	$53,352	$57,075
FY2026	280	$30,403	$33,364	$38,771	$46,462	$51,605	$58,344	$59,301

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 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 employers with the most applications under this code. 67 of 871 filings, 8% of the total.

Firms filing it

Kurczaba & Brozek Law Offices, LLC 30 filings · 100.0% approved
Santos Law Firm PL 29 filings
PERM-ACTION LLC 21 filings
Law Offices of Andrew P Johnson, Esq. 17 filings
VENLAW P.A. 17 filings
ROBERT S KLEINMAN PA 16 filings

The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 130 of 871 filings, 15% of the total.

Where the jobs are

Florida 332
California 161
Massachusetts 74
New York 51
Illinois 47
Texas 37

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 702 of 871 filings.

Where this sits in the ranking

Ranked 70 of 1,410 by volume: 69 filed at least as many filings, and 1,340 filed no more.

Just above: Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education 892 filings
Just below: Construction Managers 869 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. Wages inside a group still swing hard, because the group holds every seniority level and every metro.

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