Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors offer sit among all 10,160 workers doing this job? The survey top-codes at $239,200+ and withholds unreliable cells, shown as n/p in the table.

Employment and concentration

The occupation employed 10,160 people in May 2024, 0.01% of every job BLS counted. California is the largest employer at 1,720 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 37.1% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in Hawaii, whose location quotient of 4.72 says this work is 4.72 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

Pay inside the occupation is wide: $58,290 separates the ends of its ladder. The 90th percentile ($96,300) is 2.5 times the 10th percentile ($38,010), a gap of $58,290 a year. The mean of $66,190 sitting above the median of $63,940 tells you the top end pulls the average up: most workers cluster below the mean, and the high tail is thin.

Pay by state

Virginia posts the highest median annual wage in the state table at $89,210, and California the largest headcount. The full table, sorted by employment:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors stands number 682 by employment and number 346 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Transportation and Material Moving Occupations, the group median wage is $52,310 across 50 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 22% more than its group median, and it supplies 0.1% of the group's 13,645,590 jobs. In 23 of the 37 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $63,940, which is the single best quick test of whether this occupation's pay is set nationally or locally: a high count means local markets regularly outbid the national figure.

Metropolitan areas: where the jobs and the pay sit

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA is the largest metro employer with 760 jobs, 7.5% of the national total. Below, the biggest employers come first; the pay table after it only counts metros with 500 or more jobs in the occupation, so its leader is a real market and not a statistical artifact.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $63,630 a year, against $70,050 in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX. Anyone relocating for this work should price the destination metro's table row, not the national median, before signing anything.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

As a household number, $63,940 a year is $5,328 a month gross, $2,459 every two weeks, $1,230 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($49,020) to the 75th ($79,600) is worth $30,580 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. The next step from a gross figure is a net one: run the $5,328 monthly figure through the paycheck calculator applies your state's taxes, the salary calculator compares two offers in any unit, and the raise vs inflation calculator tells you whether a nominal raise is a real one.

To place a real offer: a salary of $70,334 would sit between the median ($63,940) and the 75th percentile ($79,600), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $49,020, is $14,920 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

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