All occupations · #585 of 1,410 by volume
Tool and Die Makers
SOC 51-4111.00, in the production major group. 24 PERM filings in DOL's current disclosure window, 21 certified and 1 denied.
Too few cases for a rate
22 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
$63,211
all PERM $103,272
Filings
24
#585 of 1,410
Approval
—
withheld: 22 decided
Median days
486
9 slower than the field
Median offered wage
$63,211median of 24 filings, too few decided to rank
Approval rate
not shownunder 30 decided
Median days to decision
486 daysmiddle of 22 decided, too few to rank
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
- ArtiFlex Manufacturing, LLC 5 filings
- Kamtek, Inc. 3 filings
- NEW PROCESS STEEL, LP 2 filings
- Andy's Seamless Gutters, LLC 1 filings
- Dieomatic Incorporated 1 filings
- Drive Automotive Industries of America, Inc. 1 filings
The employers with the most applications under this code. 13 of 24 filings, 54% of the total.
Firms filing it
- Dickinson Wright, PLLC 6 filings
- Eastman & Smith Ltd. 5 filings
- Park and Associates PC 2 filings
- Quan Law Group, PLLC 2 filings
- Carl Rothrock Law Firm PLLC 1 filings
- Dinsmore & Shohl LLP 1 filings
The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 17 of 24 filings, 71% of the total.
Where the jobs are
- Ohio 6
- Alabama 4
- Florida 2
- Michigan 2
- Mississippi 2
- California 1
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 17 of 24 filings.
Where this sits in the ranking
Ranked 585 of 1,410 by volume: 584 filed at least as many filings, and 825 filed no more.
- Just above
- Mechanical Drafters 24 filings
- Just below
- Helpers--Pipelayers, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters 24 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.
- #582 Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders 25 filings · none denied
- #591 Molding and Casting Workers 24 filings · none denied
- #572 Sewers, Hand 25 filings · 2 denied
- #562 Butchers and Meat Cutters 27 filings · none denied
- #609 Stone Cutters and Carvers, Manufacturing 22 filings · 1 denied
- #614 Textile Knitting and Weaving Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders 21 filings · none 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