Occupation / job
Passenger Attendants
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 $37,720 midpoint, Passenger Attendants sits 25% under the $50,020 national figure. The shortfall is $1,025 a month, which is roughly the size of a rent difference between metros — worth checking before the job is the thing you blame.
27,110 people do this work nationally. That is the size at which Passenger Attendants becomes a career rather than a post — enough employers in a normal city that leaving one of them is a decision rather than a crisis.
These roles suit people who want outdoor work around traffic with a clear procedure, and who can stay alert in a setting where attention is the safety control.
No verified preparation time is on file for Passenger Attendants. 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
$10,440 separates the bottom quarter at $31,240 from the top quarter at $41,680, a ratio of 1.3x. In a band that tight, moving up inside Passenger Attendants pays less than moving out of it would.
Under $31,240 is where a quarter of this field sits, $18,780 beneath the $50,020 a typical American job pays. The risk in Passenger Attendants is not the average outcome, it is how long you might spend in the bottom quarter before leaving it.
Avoid it if standing outdoors in all weather beside moving traffic is not acceptable to you.
No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 27,110 figure counts people already working as Passenger Attendants, 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 1.3x spread means the top quarter of Passenger Attendants is not doing a different job from the bottom quarter, just a slightly better-paid version of the same one. Between $31,240 and $41,680 is the whole of the negotiation.
The middle half of this field earns between $31,240 and $41,680. That is $10,440 of range, with $37,720 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.
Getting to $41,680, the 75th percentile, is worth $3,960 a year more than the $37,720 midpoint and $10,440 more than the $31,240 a quarter of Passenger Attendants settle for.
The midpoint sits high inside its own range: $6,480 above the $31,240 bottom quarter but only $3,960 below the $41,680 top quarter. Most of the distance in Passenger Attendants is spent climbing out of the bottom, and once you are past the middle there is not much further to go.
On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Passenger Attendants is $18.13 an hour. The quarters sit at $15.01 and $20.03, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.
What these figures are, and what they are not
Employers reported these wages for people already working as Passenger Attendants. The self-employed are excluded, so $37,720 does not describe an independent doing the same work.
The hourly number on this page is $37,720 divided by a 2,080-hour year and nothing more. We hold no unpaid-hours or cost data for Passenger Attendants, so it is arithmetic rather than an effective rate.
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