All occupations · #213 of 1,410 by volume
Self-Enrichment Teachers
SOC 25-3021.00, in the education and library major group. 194 PERM filings in DOL's current disclosure window, 164 certified and 16 denied.
Median wage
$52,000
all PERM $103,272
Filings
194
#213 of 1,410
Approval
91.1%
field 96.8%
Median days
481
4 slower than the field
Median offered wage
$52,000above 35%
Approval rate
91.1%ahead of 17%
Median days to decision
481 daysahead of 36%
- 5th to 95th
- 25th to 75th
- Median
- 10th and 90th
FY2025
$50,690 median · 81 certified cases
FY2026
$53,258 median · 72 certified cases
- 10th
- $38,023
- +20.9% since FY2025
- Median
- $53,258
- +5.1% since FY2025
- 90th
- $76,904
- +16.2% since FY2025
- 95th
- $83,346
- +21.1% 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.
| Fiscal year | Cases | 5th | 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 81 | $30,514 | $31,450 | $36,000 | $50,690 | $59,925 | $66,200 | $68,848 |
| FY2026 | 72 | $31,450 | $38,023 | $41,450 | $53,258 | $60,059 | $76,904 | $83,346 |
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
- LOVE TO DANCE INC 7 filings
- MAR Impressions, LLC. 5 filings
- DDDance, Inc. 3 filings
- DURHAM DANCE CENTER INC 3 filings
- Lee's World Champion LLC 3 filings
- ACROBATIC ROCK-N-ROLL ACADEMY OF BOSTON, LLC 2 filings
The employers with the most applications under this code. 23 of 194 filings, 12% of the total.
Firms filing it
- FOOKSMAN LAW FIRM PC 23 filings
- Ho Jin Park, Esq. 8 filings
- Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP 7 filings
- CBI IMMIGRATION LAW 6 filings
- LAW OFFICE OF JIM KAHNG, A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION 6 filings
- Law Offices of David M. Moon 5 filings
The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 55 of 194 filings, 28% of the total.
Where the jobs are
- California 38
- Texas 29
- New York 22
- North Carolina 16
- Florida 14
- Massachusetts 12
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 131 of 194 filings.
Where this sits in the ranking
Ranked 213 of 1,410 by volume: 212 filed at least as many filings, and 1,197 filed no more.
- Just above
- Treasurers and Controllers 195 filings
- Just below
- Mechanical Engineering Technologists and Technicians 190 filings
Other education and library 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.
- #227 Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary 176 filings · 6 denied
- #196 N/A 220 filings · 4 denied
- #178 Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary 246 filings · 3 denied
- #249 Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and CareerTechnical Education 145 filings · 16 denied
- #252 Preschool Teachers, Except Special Education 143 filings · 1 denied
- #172 Economics Teachers, Postsecondary 269 filings · 5 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