Updated October 16, 2026

PERM occupation, SOC 15-2041, #59 of 1,410 by filings

Statisticians

42,231 H-1B LCAs

Biggest sponsor: AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC · 18% of its filings
Busiest state: CA · 27% of its filings
Major group: Computer and mathematical · SOC 15

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 1,107 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 3.5% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Median wage

$121,000

all PERM $103,272

Filings

1,115

#59 of 1,410

Approval

97.6%

field 96.8%

Median days

378

99 faster 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

$121,000above 80%

$18k $500k

Approval rate

97.6%ahead of 61%

49% 100%

Median days to decision

378 daysahead of 96%

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

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

AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC 204 filings · 100.0% approved
GOOGLE LLC 53 filings · 100.0% approved
META PLATFORMS, INC. 32 filings · 100.0% approved
AMAZON WEB SERVICES, INC. 28 filings
AMAZON DEVELOPMENT CENTER U.S., INC 23 filings
CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC 19 filings

How this is counted

The employers with the most applications under this code. 359 of 1,115 filings, 32% of the total.

Firms filing it

Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen Loewy, LLP 368 filings · 100.0% approved
Berry Appleman Leiden LLP 173 filings · 93.6% approved
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak Stewart, P.C. 61 filings · 100.0% approved
Farrell LLP 39 filings · 100.0% approved
Erickson Immigration Group 27 filings
Ogletree Deakins 27 filings

How this is counted

The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 695 of 1,115 filings, 62% of the total.

Where the jobs are

California 302
Washington 224
New York 118
Texas 57
Massachusetts 50
Virginia 49

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 800 of 1,115 filings.

Where the work is

Seattle, WA 187
New York, NY 105
San Francisco, CA 66
Mountain View, CA 44
Menlo Park, CA 31
Santa Clara, CA 27

How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 460 of 1,115 filings.

Newspapers it advertised in

Albuquerque Journal

1 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

Employee referral programs

1 cases
Job search websites

1 cases
Local or ethnic newspapers

1 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

0.0%
90 to 119 days

0.0%
120 to 149 days

0.0%
150 to 180 days

100%
Over 180 days

0.0%

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

China 7,484
India 7,104
Canada 427
Taiwan 280
South Korea 249
Iran 192

Worker's education

Master's 12,503
Doctorate 3,043
Bachelor's 2,264
None 69
Other 50
Associate's 2

Visa held when filed

H-1B 15,102
F-1 1,465
L-1 635
TN 180
O-1 79
H-4 62

Schools

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 686
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY 388
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT 250
CORNELL UNIVERSITY 247
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 232
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY 230

Fields of study

STATISTICS 2,220
COMPUTER SCIENCE 1,035
BUSINESS ANALYTICS 670
BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 582
BIOSTATISTICS 483
ECONOMICS 462

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
29,030 jobs
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA
Seattle
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ
New York
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA
San Francisco, Menlo Park
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA
Mountain View, Santa Clara

$100k$150k$200k

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	$105,650
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$105,650	$90,605	$102,003	$113,422	$124,821
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$137,510	$88,421	$116,958	$145,475	$174,013
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	—	$81,869	$111,176	$140,483	$169,790
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$202,840	$133,557	$158,018	$182,458	$206,918

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 Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA, 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, Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA
Wage year	Level I	Level II	Level III	Level IV
2026-27	$90,605	$102,003	$113,422	$124,821
2025-26	$86,674	$100,360	$114,026	$127,712
2024-25	$86,653	$103,272	$119,891	$136,510
2023-24	$80,434	$96,221	$112,008	$127,795
2022-23	$73,882	$87,922	$101,941	$115,981
2021-22	$77,189	$91,021	$104,832	$118,664

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

What the job is

Develop or apply mathematical or statistical theory and methods to collect, organize, interpret, and summarize numerical data to provide usable information. May specialize in fields such as biostatistics, agricultural statistics, business statistics, or economic statistics. Includes mathematical and survey statisticians.

Preparation: Extensive Preparation Needed; O*NET Job Zone 5
DOL's education basis: Master's degree; Wage year 2026-27, on DOL's Appendix A list
Jobs, 2025 to 2035: +11.0%; About 1,900 openings a year (BLS)
Typical entry: Master's degree; BLS

Bright Outlook O*NET OnLine lists this job for rapid growth.

The work, most important first

Analyze and interpret statistical data to identify significant differences in relationships among sources of information.
Evaluate the statistical methods and procedures used to obtain data to ensure validity, applicability, efficiency, and accuracy.
Report results of statistical analyses, including information in the form of graphs, charts, and tables.
Determine whether statistical methods are appropriate, based on user needs or research questions of interest.
Prepare data for processing by organizing information, checking for inaccuracies, and adjusting and weighting the raw data.
Develop and test experimental designs, sampling techniques, and analytical methods.

The education workers in it report

Bachelor's Degree

14%
Master's Degree

62%
Doctoral Degree

10%

Titles people use for it

Database Analyst, Mathematical Statistician, Statistical Analyst, Statistician, Demographer, Education Research Analyst, Psychometric Consultant, Quantitative Methodologist.

O*NET also describes Biostatisticians under this SOC code.

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 59 of 1,410 by volume: 58 filed at least as many filings, and 1,351 filed no more.

Just above: N/A 1,135 filings
Just below: Computer and Information Systems Managers 1,099 filings

Other computer and mathematical 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

42,231 certified H-1B labor condition applications for this occupation since FY2020, offering a median of $115,128 a year; the middle half ran $90,000 to $145,211. 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 15-2041. 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 1,115 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 Statisticians. The measured factors are on the denial risk page, published as separate rates.
Nothing here is pending: All 1,115 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 AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC. 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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