Occupation / job
First-Line Supervisors of Transportation and Material Moving Workers, Except Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors
Median annual pay. Half earn less than this.
Hourly at a standard 2,080-hour year. We do not yet have unpaid-time or cost data for this, so this is not an adjusted figure.
The middle half. A quarter earn below this range.
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 · view
What this figure cannot tell you
It covers people EMPLOYED in this occupation. Anyone who trained for it and was never hired is not in the median above, and neither is anyone doing the work self-employed. No verified count of qualified people exists for this occupation, so this page shows none rather than an estimate. Why that matters · The occupations where we could source it
Who this suits
First-Line Supervisors of Transportation and Material Moving Workers, Except Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors pays $62,890 against $50,020 across all occupations — $1,072 a month more. Every premium is paid for something: find out whether it is the schooling, the licence, the hours or the risk before you decide you want it.
This is a large occupation: 623,640 people work as First-Line Supervisors of Transportation and Material Moving Workers, Except Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors. Large occupations hire continuously and replace continuously, and the pay reflects both facts.
Supervising transport and material moving suits people who can hold a schedule together when a vehicle, a driver or a dock has just removed itself from the plan.
No verified preparation time is on file for First-Line Supervisors of Transportation and Material Moving Workers, Except Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors. The wage survey behind every figure on this page asks employers what they pay, not what they required, so the honest answer here is that we do not know.
Who should not do this
$50,070 to $78,160 — 1.6x, or $2,340 a month between the quarters. An unremarkable spread, which means the useful planning number for First-Line Supervisors of Transportation and Material Moving Workers, Except Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors is the bottom of it rather than the middle.
The bottom quarter of First-Line Supervisors of Transportation and Material Moving Workers, Except Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors still clears $50,070 — $50 above the $50,020 typical job. A high floor is the most valuable and least advertised property an occupation can have.
Avoid it if you could not be reachable when a load, a driver or a dock fails outside working hours.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 623,640 is a headcount of the employed, which is a numerator without a denominator — everyone who qualified and never got hired is missing from it, and we will not estimate them to complete a percentage.
What the spread tells you
A 1.6x ratio is the most common shape in this data: some room to move, none of it quick. Read $62,890 as where you might be after years in First-Line Supervisors of Transportation and Material Moving Workers, Except Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors, and $50,070 as where you would start.
Put in money rather than ratios: $50,070 at the 25th percentile, $62,890 at the midpoint, $78,160 at the 75th. $28,090 separates the quarter of First-Line Supervisors of Transportation and Material Moving Workers, Except Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors at the bottom from the quarter at the top.
The 75th percentile is $78,160. Reaching it from the $62,890 midpoint is $15,270 a year; reaching it from the $50,070 that the bottom quarter of First-Line Supervisors of Transportation and Material Moving Workers, Except Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors earn is $28,090.
The climb from $62,890 to $78,160 is $15,270; the drop to $50,070 is $12,820. A little more room above the midpoint than below it is the normal shape for First-Line Supervisors of Transportation and Material Moving Workers, Except Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors and for most paid work, and it is the reason the median is the honest summary rather than the average.
On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for First-Line Supervisors of Transportation and Material Moving Workers, Except Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors is $30.23 an hour. The quarters sit at $24.07 and $37.57, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.
What these figures are, and what they are not
The $62,890 figure is what employers pay employees. It is before tax and before deductions, it excludes the self-employed entirely, and it says nothing about anyone who does this work on their own account.
The hourly number on this page is $62,890 divided by a 2,080-hour year and nothing more. We hold no unpaid-hours or cost data for First-Line Supervisors of Transportation and Material Moving Workers, Except Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors, so it is arithmetic rather than an effective rate.
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