Cleaners of Vehicles and Equipment Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Cleaners of Vehicles and Equipment offer sit among all 373,960 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

BLS counted 373,960 Cleaners of Vehicles and Equipment jobs in May 2024, which is 0.24% of all U.S. employment in the survey. Work is most concentrated in Kansas, where the location quotient is 2.00, meaning the occupation holds 2.00 times its national share of local jobs. California employs the most people outright, 48,280 of them, and the three largest state employers together account for 29.9% of the national total.

Read the ladder as a career path in numbers: $29,790 at the 25th percentile, $35,270 at the middle, $39,630 at the 75th. The full 10-to-90 range runs $20,410, a ratio of 1.8 to 1. Where a specific job offer lands on that range says more about the role's level than the occupation's headline median does.

Pay by state

The state spread for Cleaners of Vehicles and Equipment runs from the $45,510 median in District of Columbia down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in California (48,280 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Cleaners of Vehicles and Equipment stands number 99 by employment and number 785 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 33% less than its group median, and it supplies 2.7% of the group's 13,645,590 jobs. In 22 of the 51 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $35,270, 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

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ is the largest metro employer with 19,850 jobs, 5.3% of the national total. The first table ranks metros by employment; the second ranks them by mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs in the occupation, because a three-person metro can top a pay table by accident.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $22,740 a year, against $45,380 in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. A gap that size between two metro labor markets is why the same occupation title can fund two very different budgets in two different cities.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

The median annual wage of $35,270 works out to $2,939 a month before taxes, $1,357 per biweekly paycheck, and $678 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($29,790) to the 75th ($39,630) is worth $9,840 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. Run the median through the paycheck calculator for a take-home estimate in your state, compare an offer against your current pay with the salary calculator, and check whether a raise actually beats prices with the raise vs inflation calculator.

To place a real offer: a salary of $38,797 would sit between the median ($35,270) and the 75th percentile ($39,630), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $29,790, is $5,480 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

Compare the ladder above with the closest relatives in the survey: First-Line Supervisors of Transportation and Material Moving Workers, Except Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors, Packers and Packagers, Hand, Driver/Sales Workers, Bus Drivers, School, Shuttle Drivers and Chauffeurs, Bus Drivers, Transit and Intercity. The Careers hub carries the whole branch, group by group.