Crossing Guards and Flaggers Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

A percentile marks a point in this occupation's pay distribution: the worker one quarter of the way up the Crossing Guards and Flaggers ladder earns the 25th percentile wage, $34,280. BLS top-codes very high wages ($239,200+ a year, $115.00+ an hour) and marks estimates it cannot publish as n/p.

Employment and concentration

With 90,180 jobs nationally, Crossing Guards and Flaggers make up 0.06% of U.S. employment as BLS measured it in May 2024. The map is uneven: New York alone holds 9,890 of those jobs, the top three states hold 30.0%, and the deepest concentration sits in Maine (location quotient 2.74, where 1.00 is the national average). A quotient above 2 usually signals a local industry cluster rather than evenly spread demand.

Pay inside the occupation is wide: $31,500 separates the ends of its ladder. The 90th percentile ($61,440) is 2.1 times the 10th percentile ($29,940), a gap of $31,500 a year. The mean of $42,910 sitting above the median of $37,700 tells you the top end pulls the average up: most workers cluster below the mean, and the high tail is thin.

Pay by state

North Dakota posts the highest median annual wage in the state table at $60,940, and New York the largest headcount. The full table, sorted by employment:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Crossing Guards and Flaggers stands number 288 by employment and number 745 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Protective Service Occupations, the group median wage is $58,610 across 24 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 36% less than its group median, and it supplies 2.5% of the group's 3,654,920 jobs. In 21 of the 50 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $37,700, 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 13,110 jobs, 14.5% 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, Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $33,370 a year, against $65,330 in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA. 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, $37,700 a year is $3,142 a month gross, $1,450 every two weeks, $725 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($34,280) to the 75th ($46,920) is worth $12,640 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 $3,142 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 $41,470 would sit between the median ($37,700) and the 75th percentile ($46,920), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $34,280, is $3,420 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Protective Service Occupations

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