All occupations · #1,145 of 1,410 by volume
Textile, Apparel, and Furnishings Workers, All Other
SOC 51-6099.00, in the production major group. 2 PERM filings in DOL's current disclosure window, 1 certified and 1 denied.
Too few cases for a rate
2 decided filings, so there's no approval rate here. Across every PERM case DOL decided in this window, 3.20% were denied. At that rate a file this size comes back clean most of the time whatever the occupation did, so a percentage would be a fact about how few cases there are. Telling a clean record apart from the field takes about 117 decided cases.
Median wage
$33,806
all PERM $103,272
Filings
2
#1,145 of 1,410
Approval
—
withheld: 2 decided
Median days
566
middle of 2 decided
Median offered wage
$33,806median of 2 filings, too few decided to rank
Approval rate
not shownunder 30 decided
Median days to decision
566 daysmiddle of 2 decided, too few to rank
Where this sits in the ranking
Ranked 1,145 of 1,410 by volume: 1,144 filed at least as many filings, and 265 filed no more.
- Just above
- Entertainers and Performers, Sports and Related Workers, All Other 2 filings
- Just below
- Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers 2 filings
Other production 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.
- #1,154 Chemical Equipment Operators and Tenders 2 filings · none denied
- #1,159 Model Makers, Wood 2 filings · none denied
- #1,125 Sewers, Hand 3 filings · none denied
- #1,167 Patternmakers, Wood 2 filings · none denied
- #1,122 Upholsterers 3 filings · none denied
- #1,174 Medical Appliance Technicians 2 filings · 1 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