Tank Car, Truck, and Ship Loaders

A $58,870 midpoint puts Tank Car, Truck, and Ship Loaders $8,850 above the $50,020 typical American job — a 18% premium paid for the training, the licence or the conditions. It is not free money and it disappears the moment you stop meeting the requirement.

Nationally 10,700 people do this. That is a real occupation with a thin local presence — enough that Tank Car, Truck, and Ship Loaders is a career, not enough that you can assume a second employer down the road.

These roles suit people who prefer to be busy physically rather than sat still, and who value being able to find the same job in any city.

No verified preparation time is on file for Tank Car, Truck, and Ship Loaders. 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.

A quarter earn below $46,300 and a quarter above $70,060: a 1.5x ratio, $23,760 between the ends. That is an ordinary working spread, which also means experience and location explain most of it and there is no shortcut through the middle.

At $46,300, or $22.25 an hour, the bottom quarter of this work lands within $3,720 of the $50,020 all-occupation midpoint — an unusually solid floor.

Avoid it if your back would not take years of it, because the work does not get lighter with seniority.

There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 10,700 people employed as Tank Car, Truck, and Ship Loaders; 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.

1.5x between $46,300 and $70,060 is the ordinary shape of an occupation where experience and region both matter and neither dominates. $58,870 is a fair expectation by mid-career, not on day one.

Put in money rather than ratios: $46,300 at the 25th percentile, $58,870 at the midpoint, $70,060 at the 75th. $23,760 separates the quarter of Tank Car, Truck, and Ship Loaders at the bottom from the quarter at the top.

Getting to $70,060, the 75th percentile, is worth $11,190 a year more than the $58,870 midpoint and $23,760 more than the $46,300 a quarter of Tank Car, Truck, and Ship Loaders settle for.

The fall from $58,870 to the $46,300 bottom quarter is $12,570; the climb to the $70,060 top quarter is $11,190. Slightly more of the range lies below the midpoint than above it, so the downside is the bigger movement here.

Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $28.30 at the midpoint for Tank Car, Truck, and Ship Loaders, $22.25 at the 25th percentile and $33.68 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.