All occupations · #184 of 1,410 by volume
Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks
SOC 43-5071.00, in the office and administrative support major group. 235 PERM filings in DOL's current disclosure window, 202 certified and 9 denied.
This rate is level with the field
Computed over 211 decided filings. The 95% interval runs up to a 7.9% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records, so this record can't be told apart from the field in either direction.
Median wage
$31,824
all PERM $103,272
Filings
235
#184 of 1,410
Approval
95.7%
field 96.8%
Median days
428
49 faster than the field
Median offered wage
$31,824above 12%
Approval rate
95.7%ahead of 44%
Median days to decision
428 daysahead of 70%
- 5th to 95th
- 25th to 75th
- Median
- 10th and 90th
FY2025
$35,859 median · 51 certified cases
FY2026
$31,824 median · 125 certified cases
- 10th
- $31,574
- +16.5% since FY2025
- Median
- $31,824
- -11.3% since FY2025
- 90th
- $39,025
- -17.1% since FY2025
- 95th
- $47,078
- -3.4% since FY2025
These years are not measuring the same group of filings. The count moves by 2.5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 51 | $27,102 | $27,102 | $29,764 | $35,859 | $42,632 | $47,050 | $48,724 |
| FY2026 | 125 | $30,160 | $31,574 | $31,824 | $31,824 | $31,824 | $39,025 | $47,078 |
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
- PRESTIGIOUS PLACEMENT, INC 86 filings · 100.0% approved
- OneCruit LLC 12 filings
- ASPEN ELECTRONICS MANUFACTURING INC 6 filings
- Zurek Construction, LLC 6 filings
- Nexus Cooperative 5 filings
- SINGLE CYLINDER REPAIR INC. 5 filings
The employers with the most applications under this code. 120 of 235 filings, 51% of the total.
Firms filing it
- American International & Immigration Law, PC 82 filings · 100.0% approved
- AII LAW PC 16 filings
- LAW OFFICES OF JEFFREY C JACKSON 6 filings
- PARK AND PARK LLP 6 filings
- Voyage Enterprise, LLC 6 filings
- Dentons Davis Brown PC 5 filings
The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 121 of 235 filings, 51% of the total.
Where the jobs are
- Tennessee 88
- California 38
- Florida 15
- Texas 13
- Virginia 10
- Georgia 9
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 173 of 235 filings.
Where this sits in the ranking
Ranked 184 of 1,410 by volume: 183 filed at least as many filings, and 1,226 filed no more.
- Just above
- Molecular and Cellular Biologists 236 filings
- Just below
- Chefs and Head Cooks 234 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.
- #181 ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT 238 filings · 28 denied
- #187 Customer Service Representatives 232 filings · 16 denied
- #191 Receptionists and Information Clerks 229 filings · 16 denied
- #174 Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks 268 filings · 27 denied
- #158 Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants 305 filings · 22 denied
- #151 First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers 321 filings · 8 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