Occupation / job
Traffic Technicians
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
The $59,090 midpoint sits $4.36 an hour above the $50,020 typical American job. That is a 18% premium, and premiums are rationed: whatever rations this one is the thing standing between you and Traffic Technicians.
National employment of 7,860 makes this a small field. Small fields are relationship markets: the people already in Traffic Technicians tend to know who is hiring before the posting exists.
These transport roles suit people who want to work around moving vehicles and traffic with a defined, learnable task and a clear end to the shift.
We carry no verified training length for Traffic Technicians — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
$46,440 to $75,850 — 1.6x, or $2,450 a month between the quarters. An unremarkable spread, which means the useful planning number for Traffic Technicians is the bottom of it rather than the middle.
The bottom quarter of Traffic Technicians earns under $46,440, which is within $3,580 of the $50,020 typical American job. An occupation whose 25th percentile is level with the national middle has an unusually forgiving downside.
Avoid it if working beside live traffic in all weather is not a risk you want to take repeatedly.
No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 7,860 figure counts people already working as Traffic Technicians, 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 $59,090 as where you might be after years in Traffic Technicians, and $46,440 as where you would start.
The middle half of this field earns between $46,440 and $75,850. That is $29,410 of range, with $59,090 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.
Between $46,440 and $75,850 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $59,090. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $16,760; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $29,410.
From $59,090 it is $12,650 down to the bottom quarter and $16,760 up to the top. The upper half of the range is the longer one, which is the ordinary shape for work where experience compounds.
On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Traffic Technicians is $28.40 an hour. The quarters sit at $22.32 and $36.46, 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 Traffic Technicians. The self-employed are excluded, so $59,090 does not describe an independent doing the same work.
Treat the per-hour figure as a conversion. It assumes a flat full-time year against $59,090 because we have no verified record of unpaid hours or out-of-pocket costs for this work, and we would rather convert honestly than adjust invented ones.
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