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Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education

Occupation · SOC 2018 25-2031 · United States

SOC 2018 code
25-2031
Share of U.S. applications
0.27%
Applications on record
33,279
FY2025
2,631
Median offered wage
$57,125
Certified (last three years)
98.3%
Main route
H-1B
Median wage$57,125certified LCAs, FY2024–FY2026
Year by year
Data as at 30 Jun 2026
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Applications year by year

Labor condition, PERM and H-2 applications classified as Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education (SOC 25-2031). Older SOC codes are mapped to SOC 2018.

Applications by fiscal year — Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education

1,5943,187FY2008FY2010FY2012FY2014FY2016FY2018FY2020FY2022FY2024FY2026*
1,5943,187FY2008FY2012FY2016FY2020FY2024FY2026*
Data table
FY2008391
FY2009980
FY20103,187
FY20112,460
FY20122,032
FY20131,905
FY20141,847
FY20151,880
FY20161,798
FY20171,406
FY20181,416
FY20191,246
FY20201,048
FY20211,184
FY20221,730
FY20232,011
FY20242,342
FY20252,631
FY2026*1,785
Fiscal yearCW-1H-2BLCAPERM
FY2026*001,494291
FY2025012,263367
FY2024002,175167
FY2023011,836174
FY2022211,549178
FY2021001,006178
FY202000895153
FY2019101,070175
FY2018001,187229
FY2017001,133273
FY2016001,445353
FY2015001,585295
FY2014001,556291
FY2013011,644260
FY2012001,763269
FY2011001,996464
FY2010002,717470
FY200900740240
FY2008000391
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification — disclosure data FY2008–FY2026 Q3Data as at 30 Jun 2026

Largest sponsoring employers

Employers with the most applications in this occupation, all years.

Applications by employer
  1. Harmony Public Schools919
  2. New York City Department of Education832
  3. Baltimore City Public School System708
  4. Dallas Independent School District686
  5. Global Teachers Research & Resources, Inc649
  6. Los Angeles Unified School District513
  7. Denver Public Schools District 1434
  8. District of Columbia Public Schools425
  9. Savannah Chatham County Public School System379
  10. Houston Independent School District363
  11. Cosmos Foundation, Inc.359
  12. Milwaukee Board of School Directors302
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification — disclosure data FY2008–FY2026 Q3Data as at 30 Jun 2026

Where the jobs are

Worksite state and metropolitan area (Census CBSA).

Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education: applications by worksite state

7+57+164+380+801+
7+57+164+380+801+
Data table
StateApplications
TX7,219
GA2,473
CA2,404
NY1,928
AZ1,637
SC1,624
MD1,483
NC1,301
FL904
NM827
VA822
LA801
MS711
CO681
MA643
OH624
DC578
NJ527
MO449
AR407
WI395
IL395
OK380
KS333
MN300
AK288
TN271
CT267
MI244
UT231
IN200
VI190
IA183
NE164
PA157
KY131
GU113
SD110
ND105
WV98
WA95
NH66
MP61
DE60
OR57
NV46
AL46
VT45
HI43
MT42
ME40
ID27
PR27
RI17
WY7
Metropolitan areas
  1. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ2,056
  2. Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX2,029
  3. Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX2,017
  4. Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA1,287
  5. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA1,182
  6. Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV1,153
  7. Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD1,009
  8. Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ588
  9. Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO539
  10. Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH477
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification — disclosure data FY2008–FY2026 Q3Data as at 30 Jun 2026

Pay

Offered annual wages on certified labor condition applications, FY2024–FY2026.

Offered annual wage, 10th to 90th percentile (certified LCAs)

Median $57,125; middle half $51,000 to $65,495 · median prevailing wage $53,160 (marker) · 5,747 applications.

$40k$50k$60k$70k$80k
$40k$50k$60k$70k$80k
Prevailing wage level
  1. Level I3,367
  2. Level II1,027
  3. Level III372
  4. Level IV250
Job titles on labor condition applications
  1. Teacher3,364
  2. Science Teacher2,214
  3. Math Teacher1,997
  4. Secondary School Teacher1,375
  5. Mathematics Teacher1,360
  6. High School Math Teacher953
  7. High School Science Teacher798
  8. High School Teacher745
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC — Labor Condition Application disclosure dataData as at 30 Jun 2026

Pages for this occupation by metropolitan area

Areas with at least 50 LCA and PERM applications since FY2020.

  • Albany, GA
  • Albuquerque, NM
  • Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA
  • Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX
  • Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD
  • Baton Rouge, LA
  • Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX
  • Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH
  • Charleston-North Charleston, SC
  • Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC
  • Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN
  • Columbia, SC
  • Columbus, OH
  • Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX
  • Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO
  • Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI
  • Durham-Chapel Hill, NC
  • El Paso, TX
  • Florence, SC
  • Henderson, NC
  • Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC
  • Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX
  • Jackson, MS
  • Jacksonville, FL
  • Kansas City, MO-KS
  • Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR
  • Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA
  • Macon-Bibb County, GA
  • Memphis, TN-MS-AR
  • Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL
  • Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI
  • Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI
  • New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ
  • Odessa, TX
  • Oklahoma City, OK
  • Orangeburg, SC
  • Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD
  • Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ
  • Raleigh-Cary, NC
  • Roanoke Rapids, NC
  • Rocky Mount, NC
  • San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX
  • San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA
  • San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA
  • Savannah, GA
  • Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ
  • St. Louis, MO-IL
  • Tucson, AZ
  • Tulsa, OK
  • Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC
  • Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV
  • Winston-Salem, NC
  • Yuma, AZ
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification — disclosure data FY2008–FY2026 Q3Data as at 30 Jun 2026

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