Occupation / job
Shuttle Drivers and Chauffeurs
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 $37,290 midpoint, Shuttle Drivers and Chauffeurs sits 25% under the $50,020 national figure. The shortfall is $1,060 a month, which is roughly the size of a rent difference between metros — worth checking before the job is the thing you blame.
National employment is 248,530. At that scale hiring is continuous, the market rate is well established, and your leverage comes from being credibly willing to go somewhere else.
Driving suits people who are comfortable alone for long stretches and who can hold a schedule as the primary measure of whether they did the job.
No verified preparation time is on file for Shuttle Drivers and Chauffeurs. 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
A quarter of Shuttle Drivers and Chauffeurs earn under $32,710 and a quarter over $45,700 — 1.4x, or $12,990 apart. Narrow spreads usually mean a pay schedule, which is stability bought at the price of upside.
Under $32,710 is where a quarter of this field sits, $17,310 beneath the $50,020 a typical American job pays. The risk in Shuttle Drivers and Chauffeurs 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 248,530 figure counts people already working as Shuttle Drivers and Chauffeurs, 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
$32,710 to $45,700 is a 1.4x range. Ranges this tight usually mean the employer set is homogeneous — the same kind of organisation paying the same kind of scale — so the lever you have is geography rather than employer.
Put in money rather than ratios: $32,710 at the 25th percentile, $37,290 at the midpoint, $45,700 at the 75th. $12,990 separates the quarter of Shuttle Drivers and Chauffeurs at the bottom from the quarter at the top.
Between $32,710 and $45,700 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $37,290. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $8,410; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $12,990.
It is $4,580 from $37,290 down to $32,710 but $8,410 up to $45,700. When a range leans this far upward, the interesting question is what puts someone in the top half, because the money is disproportionately there.
Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $17.92 at the midpoint for Shuttle Drivers and Chauffeurs, $15.72 at the 25th percentile and $21.97 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.
What these figures are, and what they are not
This is payroll data: it comes from employers, about people they employ. Anyone doing the work of Shuttle Drivers and Chauffeurs for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $37,290 describes them.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Shuttle Drivers and Chauffeurs, the hourly figure is $37,290 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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