All occupations · #444 of 1,410 by volume
Tree Trimmers and Pruners
SOC 37-3013.00, in the building and grounds maintenance major group. 54 PERM filings in DOL's current disclosure window, 46 certified and 2 denied.
This rate is level with the field
Computed over 48 decided filings. The 95% interval runs up to a 14.0% 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
$40,145
all PERM $103,272
Filings
54
#444 of 1,410
Approval
95.8%
field 96.8%
Median days
481
4 slower than the field
Median offered wage
$40,145above 23%
Approval rate
95.8%ahead of 44%
Median days to decision
481 daysahead of 36%
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
- Sunrise of Nashville, Inc. 9 filings
- Hentges Tree Service, Inc. 5 filings
- EXSCAPE DESIGNS, LLC 4 filings
- FLOWERLAND GARDEN CENTERS OF CLEVELAND 4 filings
- S.A.M. LANDSCAPING, INC. 4 filings
- Hardbower Tree Service, LLC 3 filings
The employers with the most applications under this code. 29 of 54 filings, 54% of the total.
Firms filing it
- LAW OFFICE OF NICOLETA D WOJNAR 20 filings
- Ozment Law, PLC 9 filings
- Labor Consultants International 5 filings
- MAS Labor 365, LLC 3 filings
- Mpras Law Offices 3 filings
- AllenPinnix, P.A. 2 filings
The law firms named on the most applications under this code. 42 of 54 filings, 78% of the total.
Where the jobs are
- Ohio 20
- Missouri 6
- North Carolina 2
- Wisconsin 2
- California 1
- Maryland 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 32 of 54 filings.
Where this sits in the ranking
Ranked 444 of 1,410 by volume: 443 filed at least as many filings, and 966 filed no more.
- Just above
- N/A 55 filings
- Just below
- Dietitians and Nutritionists 53 filings
Other building and grounds maintenance 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.
- #456 FirstLine Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers 51 filings · 23 denied
- #457 LandscapeIrrigation Crew Leader 51 filings · 2 denied
- #288 First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers 110 filings · 7 denied
- #694 Pesticide Handlers, Sprayers, and Applicators, Vegetation 16 filings · 1 denied
- #121 Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners 433 filings · 79 denied
- #112 First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers 486 filings · 53 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