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Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary: green card (PERM) sponsors

178 PERM labor certification applications for this occupation (SOC 25-1121). Median offered salary $71,000; median time to certification 484 days.

PERM applications178

Median offered salary$71,000

Middle half of salaries$62,050–$84,000

10th–90th percentile$54,200–$101,120

Top green card sponsors

Employer	PERM applications	Median salary
Savannah College of Art and Design, Inc.	6	$54,660
State University of New York at Binghamton	6	$72,000
Univ of WI System	4	$79,500
The Curators of the University of Missouri	4	$70,564
University of Hawaii	4	$80,856
Indiana University	4	$67,248
The Florida State University	3	$76,024
The University of Texas at Austin	3	$86,000
The Pennsylvania State University	3	$78,012
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago	3	$75,000
Bowling Green State University	3	$62,000
University of North Carolina at Charlotte	3	$71,000
University of California, Santa Cruz	3	$112,500
University of North Carolina Wilmington	2	$62,500
University of Cincinnati	2	$68,311
Illinois State University	2	$70,002
Ball State University	2	$64,500
Cornell Univeristy	2	$85,950
University of Northern Colorado	2	$62,750
Iowa State University of Science and Technology	2	$66,660
Harvard University	2	$103,750
Coastal Carolina University	2	$63,000
University of Maryland, Baltimore County	2	$98,360
James Madison University	2	$65,397
University of New Mexico	2	$62,574
The University of Mississippi	2	$63,297
California State University, Northridge	2	$87,882
Western Carolina University	2	—
California State University, Fresno	2	$529,698
Arizona State University	2	$75,000
University of Michigan	2	$82,454
State University of New York at New Paltz	2	$71,000
Colorado Mesa University	1	$44,333
University of Illinois at Chicago	1	$89,460
Drake University	1	$63,945
Columbia University	1	$108,000
Loyola Marymount University	1	$118,435
Texas Christian University	1	$65,000
Hunter College of the City University of New York	1	$99,532
Trustees of Grinnell College	1	$84,000
Olivet University	1	$47,940
University of Oklahoma	1	$68,000
Tennessee Technological University	1	$59,000
Kansas Wesleyan University	1	$40,500
The University of Memphis	1	$65,000
Song of Songs Group	1	$68,650
Bard College	1	$107,330
Appalachian State University	1	$61,500
California State University, Fullerton	1	$84,269
Colorado State University	1	$53,000

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Salaries are the lower end of the wage offered on each application, converted to a yearly amount; statistics use certified full-time applications. PERM certification is one step toward a green card; USCIS decides the petition. Not legal advice. Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC PERM Disclosure Data, fiscal years 2024–2026 (latest decision Jun 30, 2026).