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PERM occupation, SOC 51-2092, #101 of 1,410 by filings
Team Assemblers
- Biggest sponsor
- Stoughton Trailers, LLC · 49% of its filings
- Busiest state
- WI · 67% of its filings
- Major group
- Production · SOC 51
Weighing an offer for this job?
Where it falls among certified offers, and the four wage levels DOL sets for it by area.
This rate is level with the field
Over 523 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.
Why
The 95% interval runs up to a 4.0% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.
Median wage
$36,400
all PERM $103,272
Filings
523
#101 of 1,410
Approval
97.7%
field 96.8%
Median days
379
98 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.
Median offered wage
$36,400above 20%
Approval rate
97.7%ahead of 62%
Median days to decision
379 daysahead of 96%
Each bar counts occupations at that value. More
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
- Stoughton Trailers, LLC 254 filings · 98.4% approved
- Morgan Truck Body, LLC 241 filings · 100.0% approved
- Pacific Commodities Inc. 7 filings
- Component Manufacturing Company 6 filings
- MERRICK ENGINEERING, INC. 5 filings
- Volens LLC 4 filings
How this is counted
The employers with the most applications under this code. 517 of 523 filings, 99% of the total.
Firms filing it
- Hammond Neal Moore, LLC 241 filings · 100.0% approved
- Ruby Law Group LLC 241 filings · 100.0% approved
- Butzel Long 9 filings
- Premier International Law Group 7 filings
- woods fuller shultz and smith pc 6 filings
- LAW OFFICES OF DAVID W. WILLIAMS, INC. 5 filings
How this is counted
The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 509 of 523 filings, 97% of the total.
Where the jobs are
- Wisconsin 353
- California 42
- Texas 30
- Ohio 29
- Arizona 25
- Connecticut 25
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 504 of 523 filings.
Where the work is
- Stoughton, WI 254
- Janesville, WI 99
- Corsicana, TX 30
- Riverside, CA 30
- Ehrenberg, AZ 25
- Moosup, CT 25
How this is counted
The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 463 of 523 filings.
- Every sponsor that files it, by state, approval rate, offered wage and time to a decision
- Every filing for it, PERM, wage requests and H-1B, case by case
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
- Colombia 284
- Bangladesh 147
- Vietnam 99
- Philippines 46
- Mexico 34
- Ecuador 26
Worker's education
- High School 557
- None 281
- Associate's 9
- Bachelor's 9
- Master's 2
Visa held when filed
- NOT IN USA 246
- F-1 43
- B-2 11
- E-2 4
- H-2B 4
- F-2 2
Schools
- NGUYEN TRAI HIGH SCHOOL 5
- COLEGIO NACIONAL NICOLAS ESGUERRA 4
- COLEGIO PANAMERICANO 4
- ACADEMIA MILITAR MARISCAL SUCRE 3
- BOARD OF INTERMEDIATE SECONDARY EDUCATION 3
- INSTITUTO DIVERSIFICADO ALBERT EINSTEIN 3
Fields of study
- HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA 490
- N/A 20
- NA 11
- ASSOCIATES DEGREE 4
- GENERAL EDUCATION 3
- ART 2
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.
- Madison, WIStoughton
- Janesville-Beloit, WIJanesville
- North Region of Texas nonmetropolitan areaCorsicana
- Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CARiverside
- Arizona nonmetropolitan areaEhrenberg
- middle half of pay (BLS)
- median
- 10th to 90th percentile
- DOL's Levels I to IV, left to right
| Area | BLS median | Level I | Level II | Level III | Level IV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Madison, WI | — | $38,896 | $43,368 | $47,819 | $52,291 |
| Janesville-Beloit, WI | — | $35,630 | $39,998 | $44,366 | $48,734 |
| North Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area | — | $29,806 | $34,965 | $40,144 | $45,302 |
| Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA | — | $36,421 | $40,685 | $44,928 | $49,192 |
| Arizona nonmetropolitan area | — | $35,797 | $40,373 | $44,970 | $49,546 |
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
DOL's levels for this job in Madison, WI, 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.
| Wage year | Level I | Level II | Level III | Level IV |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | $38,896 | $43,368 | $47,819 | $52,291 |
| 2025-26 | $38,334 | $42,931 | $47,549 | $52,146 |
| 2024-25 | $35,381 | $39,915 | $44,470 | $49,005 |
| 2023-24 | $33,010 | $36,962 | $40,893 | $44,845 |
| 2022-23 | $30,451 | $34,008 | $37,586 | $41,142 |
| 2021-22 | $29,973 | $33,883 | $37,814 | $41,725 |
What the job is
Work as part of a team having responsibility for assembling an entire product or component of a product. Team assemblers can perform all tasks conducted by the team in the assembly process and rotate through all or most of them, rather than being assigned to a specific task on a permanent basis. May participate in making management decisions affecting the work. Includes team leaders who work as part of the team.
- Preparation
- Very Little to Some Preparation Needed
- O*NET Job Zone 1-2
- DOL's education basis
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Wage year 2026-27
The work, most important first
- Perform quality checks on products and parts.
- Review work orders and blueprints to ensure work is performed according to specifications.
- Rotate through all the tasks required in a particular production process.
- Determine work assignments and procedures.
- Supervise assemblers and train employees on job procedures.
- Shovel, sweep, or otherwise clean work areas.
The education workers in it report
- 81%
High School Diploma or the equivalent (such as a GED)
- 7%
Some College Courses
- 7%
Bachelor's Degree
Titles people use for it
Assembler, Assembly Line Machine Operator, Assembly Line Worker, Assembly Technician, Assembly Associate, Assembly Operator, Certified Composites Technician (CCT), Manufacturing Associate.
Related jobs: Electrical and Electronic Equipment Assemblers, Engine and Other Machine Assemblers, Electromechanical Equipment Assemblers, Aircraft Structure, Surfaces, Rigging, and Systems Assemblers, Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians, Mechanical Engineering Technologists and Technicians.
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 101 of 1,410 by volume: 100 filed at least as many filings, and 1,309 filed no more.
- Just above
- Supply Chain Managers 544 filings
- Just below
- Dentists, General 518 filings
Other production 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.
- #76 Slaughterers and Meat Packers 832 filings · 36 denied
- #62 HelpersProduction Workers 1,002 filings · 80 denied
- #38 Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers 1,797 filings · 14 denied
- #176 Slaughterers and Meat Packers 263 filings · 2 denied
- #24 Team Assemblers 2,504 filings · 5 denied
- #16 Helpers--Production Workers 3,399 filings · 40 denied
The same job on H-1B
2 certified H-1B labor condition applications for this occupation since FY2020, offering a median of $29,422 a year; the middle half ran $28,709 to $30,134. 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 51-2092. 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 523 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 Team Assemblers. The measured factors are on the denial risk page, published as separate rates.
- Nothing here is pending
- All 523 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 Stoughton Trailers, 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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