Occupation / job
Transportation Inspectors
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
$92,100 against a $50,020 national midpoint is 84% more, or $20.23 an hour. Almost nothing pays this much more without a long, expensive or restricted route in — read that route before reading the number again.
With 24,500 employed as Transportation Inspectors, most metros have a working market: several employers, visible turnover, and the ability to change jobs without moving house.
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 Transportation Inspectors. 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
The quarters sit at $58,780 and $108,890 — 1.9x, or $4,175 a month apart. At that width the occupation contains genuinely different jobs, and which one you are being offered matters more than the title does.
Even the bottom quarter of Transportation Inspectors earns $58,780 — $28.25 an hour and $8,760 clear of the $50,020 national midpoint. Very little of this distribution is badly paid.
Avoid it if working beside live traffic in all weather is not a risk you want to take repeatedly.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 24,500 is a headcount of the employed, which is a numerator without a denominator — everyone who qualified and never got hired is missing from it, and we will not estimate them to complete a percentage.
What the spread tells you
From $58,780 to $108,890 at a ratio of 1.9x is wide enough that two people with the same job title have materially different jobs. $92,100 sits in the middle of that and describes neither of them especially well.
Put in money rather than ratios: $58,780 at the 25th percentile, $92,100 at the midpoint, $108,890 at the 75th. $50,110 separates the quarter of Transportation Inspectors at the bottom from the quarter at the top.
The 75th percentile is $108,890. Reaching it from the $92,100 midpoint is $16,790 a year; reaching it from the $58,780 that the bottom quarter of Transportation Inspectors earn is $50,110.
The midpoint sits high inside its own range: $33,320 above the $58,780 bottom quarter but only $16,790 below the $108,890 top quarter. Most of the distance in Transportation Inspectors is spent climbing out of the bottom, and once you are past the middle there is not much further to go.
Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $28.25 at the bottom quarter, $44.27 at the midpoint, $52.35 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
This is payroll data: it comes from employers, about people they employ. Anyone doing the work of Transportation Inspectors for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $92,100 describes them.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Transportation Inspectors, the hourly figure is $92,100 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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