Special Education Teachers, Elementary School
Occupation · SOC 2018 25-2056 · United States
- SOC 2018 code
- 25-2056
- Share of U.S. applications
- 0.01%
- Applications on record
- 1,766
- FY2025
- 552
- Median offered wage
- $59,094
- Certified (last three years)
- 99.6%
- Main route
- H-1B
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Applications year by year
Labor condition, PERM and H-2 applications classified as Special Education Teachers, Elementary School (SOC 25-2056). Older SOC codes are mapped to SOC 2018.
Applications by fiscal year — Special Education Teachers, Elementary School
Data table
| FY2022 | 76 |
| FY2023 | 282 |
| FY2024 | 481 |
| FY2025 | 552 |
| FY2026* | 375 |
| Fiscal year | LCA | PERM |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026* | 317 | 58 |
| FY2025 | 526 | 26 |
| FY2024 | 475 | 6 |
| FY2023 | 282 | 0 |
| FY2022 | 76 | 0 |
Largest sponsoring employers
Employers with the most applications in this occupation, all years.
- West Contra Costa Unified School District77
- Dallas Independent School District63
- USD 501, Topeka Public Schools54
- Milwaukee Board of School Directors44
- San Jose Unified School District42
- Savannah Chatham County Public School System42
- Baltimore City Public School System35
- Florence Unified School District NO. 131
- Denver Public Schools District 131
- Virginia Beach City Public Schools29
- Palmdale Elementary School District29
- Hobbs Municipal Schools25
Where the jobs are
Worksite state and metropolitan area (Census CBSA).
Special Education Teachers, Elementary School: applications by worksite state
Data table
| State | Applications |
|---|---|
| CA | 322 |
| NM | 149 |
| TX | 146 |
| SC | 123 |
| GA | 120 |
| AZ | 109 |
| KS | 85 |
| MN | 84 |
| NC | 83 |
| VA | 76 |
| AK | 60 |
| WI | 46 |
| ND | 40 |
| MD | 38 |
| SD | 35 |
| CO | 34 |
| NY | 24 |
| DC | 22 |
| IL | 20 |
| VI | 17 |
| LA | 14 |
| MS | 14 |
| FL | 13 |
| UT | 12 |
| VT | 10 |
| MT | 10 |
| AR | 8 |
| MA | 7 |
| WA | 6 |
| IA | 5 |
| OK | 5 |
| NV | 5 |
| MI | 4 |
| OR | 4 |
| NJ | 3 |
| NE | 2 |
| OH | 2 |
| MO | 2 |
| KY | 2 |
| IN | 2 |
| RI | 1 |
| TN | 1 |
| AL | 1 |
- San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA110
- San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA75
- Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX74
- Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ70
- Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI61
- Topeka, KS56
- Columbia, SC55
- Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC48
- Salinas, CA48
- Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI44
Pay
Offered annual wages on certified labor condition applications, FY2024–FY2026.
Offered annual wage, 10th to 90th percentile (certified LCAs)
Median $59,094; middle half $52,212 to $68,000 · median prevailing wage $55,230 (marker) · 1,286 applications.
- Level I584
- Level II142
- Level III50
- Level IV38
- Special Education Teacher511
- Elementary Special Education Teacher176
- Teacher117
- Public School Teacher91
- Elementary School Special Education Teacher80
- Special Education Teacher, Elementary School35
- Special Education Teacher, Elementary33
- Special Education Teacher - Elementary29
Pages for this occupation by metropolitan area
Areas with at least 50 LCA and PERM applications since FY2020.
- Columbia, SC
- Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX
- Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI
- Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ
- San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA
- San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA
- Topeka, KS
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