Occupation / job
Motor Vehicle Operators, All Other
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
At a $37,180 midpoint, Motor Vehicle Operators, All Other sits 26% under the $50,020 national figure. The shortfall is $1,070 a month, which is roughly the size of a rent difference between metros — worth checking before the job is the thing you blame.
46,880 people are employed in this work. Big enough for a real market in every major metro, small enough that experience in Motor Vehicle Operators, All Other is still a distinguishing thing to have.
This work suits people who want to be left alone to do the job and are judged on whether the load arrived on time and intact.
No verified preparation time is on file for Motor Vehicle Operators, All Other. 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
From $31,220 to $48,980 is $1,480 a month, or 1.6x bottom quarter to top. An ordinary spread like this is mostly years and geography; assume you enter near the bottom of it and that closing the gap takes a career rather than a move.
Under $31,220 is where a quarter of this field sits, $18,800 beneath the $50,020 a typical American job pays. The risk in Motor Vehicle Operators, All Other is not the average outcome, it is how long you might spend in the bottom quarter before leaving it.
Avoid it if long periods alone, irregular sleep or time away from home are dealbreakers.
No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 46,880 figure counts people already working as Motor Vehicle Operators, All Other, not everyone who trained and never got hired. Without a licensing register to divide by, a rate here would be an invented denominator.
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 $37,180 as where you might be after years in Motor Vehicle Operators, All Other, and $31,220 as where you would start.
In cash terms the middle half of Motor Vehicle Operators, All Other runs $31,220 to $48,980 — $17,760 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $37,180.
Getting to $48,980, the 75th percentile, is worth $11,800 a year more than the $37,180 midpoint and $17,760 more than the $31,220 a quarter of Motor Vehicle Operators, All Other settle for.
The upper half of the middle range — $37,180 to $48,980, or $11,800 — is far longer than the lower half at $5,960. In a shape like this an average would flatter Motor Vehicle Operators, All Other considerably, and would describe nobody.
Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $17.87 at the midpoint for Motor Vehicle Operators, All Other, $15.00 at the 25th percentile and $23.54 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.
What these figures are, and what they are not
The $37,180 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.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Motor Vehicle Operators, All Other, the hourly figure is $37,180 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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