Occupation / job
Transportation Workers, All Other
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
Transportation Workers, All Other pays $45,650 where the typical job pays $50,020 — $2.10 an hour apart. That is close enough to average that the interesting numbers on this page are the percentiles, not the median.
Nationally 13,550 people do this. That is a real occupation with a thin local presence — enough that Transportation Workers, All Other is a career, not enough that you can assume a second employer down the road.
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.
How long it takes to become one of the 13,550 people doing this is not something we have a source for. BLS counts and pays them; it does not record how they got there, and we would rather say so than guess.
Who should not do this
From $38,240 to $60,400 is $1,846 a month, or 1.6x bottom quarter to top. An ordinary spread like this is mostly years and geography; assume you enter near the bottom of it and that closing the gap takes a career rather than a move.
A quarter of Transportation Workers, All Other earn under $38,240, which is $11,780 short of the $50,020 national midpoint. Assume you start there and check whether the arithmetic still works.
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 13,550 figure counts people already working as Transportation Workers, All Other, 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
1.6x between $38,240 and $60,400 is the ordinary shape of an occupation where experience and region both matter and neither dominates. $45,650 is a fair expectation by mid-career, not on day one.
In cash terms the middle half of Transportation Workers, All Other runs $38,240 to $60,400 — $22,160 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $45,650.
Between $38,240 and $60,400 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $45,650. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $14,750; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $22,160.
The upper half of the middle range — $45,650 to $60,400, or $14,750 — is far longer than the lower half at $7,410. In a shape like this an average would flatter Transportation Workers, All Other considerably, and would describe nobody.
On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Transportation Workers, All Other is $21.94 an hour. The quarters sit at $18.38 and $29.03, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.
What these figures are, and what they are not
The $45,650 figure is what employers pay employees. It is before tax and before deductions, it excludes the self-employed entirely, and it says nothing about anyone who does this work on their own account.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Transportation Workers, All Other, the hourly figure is $45,650 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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