Occupation / job
Parking Enforcement Workers
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 $46,730, Parking Enforcement Workers lands just under the $50,020 national midpoint — $3,290 apart, inside the range a single promotion or a move between states closes.
Nationally 9,050 people do this. That is a real occupation with a thin local presence — enough that Parking Enforcement Workers is a career, not enough that you can assume a second employer down the road.
Law enforcement suits people who can be the visible authority in a hostile moment and then write it up accurately afterwards, knowing the record will be read adversarially.
We carry no verified training length for Parking Enforcement Workers — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
From $39,870 to $60,490 is $1,718 a month, or 1.5x 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.
A quarter of Parking Enforcement Workers earn under $39,870, which is $10,150 short of the $50,020 national midpoint. Assume you start there and check whether the arithmetic still works.
Avoid it if you could not accept that your worst thirty seconds may be reviewed for years afterwards.
There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 9,050 people employed as Parking Enforcement Workers; it did not count the people who trained for it and are doing something else, and a rate built without that denominator would be a number we made up.
What the spread tells you
A 1.5x ratio is the most common shape in this data: some room to move, none of it quick. Read $46,730 as where you might be after years in Parking Enforcement Workers, and $39,870 as where you would start.
In cash terms the middle half of Parking Enforcement Workers runs $39,870 to $60,490 — $20,620 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $46,730.
Getting to $60,490, the 75th percentile, is worth $13,760 a year more than the $46,730 midpoint and $20,620 more than the $39,870 a quarter of Parking Enforcement Workers settle for.
The upper half of the middle range — $46,730 to $60,490, or $13,760 — is far longer than the lower half at $6,860. In a shape like this an average would flatter Parking Enforcement Workers considerably, and would describe nobody.
Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $19.16 at the bottom quarter, $22.46 at the midpoint, $29.08 at the top quarter. The typical American job works out at $24.04 on the same basis.
What these figures are, and what they are not
The $46,730 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 Parking Enforcement Workers, the hourly figure is $46,730 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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