First-Line Supervisors of Transportation and Material Moving Workers, Except Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

The five rows are five different workers in the same occupation, from the 10th percentile ($41,290) to the 90th ($94,830). BLS suppresses cells that fail its reliability rules (n/p here) and caps the highest wages at $239,200+ a year or $115.00+ an hour; in this ladder that top code appears at the very top rows only.

Employment and concentration

With 605,510 jobs nationally, First-Line Supervisors of Transportation and Material Moving Workers, Except Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors make up 0.39% of U.S. employment as BLS measured it in May 2024. The map is uneven: California alone holds 66,620 of those jobs, the top three states hold 26.2%, and the deepest concentration sits in Tennessee (location quotient 1.46, 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: $53,540 separates the ends of its ladder. The 90th percentile ($94,830) is 2.3 times the 10th percentile ($41,290), a gap of $53,540 a year. The mean of $65,670 sitting above the median of $61,890 tells you the top end pulls the average up: most workers cluster below the mean, and the high tail is thin.

Pay by state

The state spread for First-Line Supervisors of Transportation and Material Moving Workers, Except Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors runs from the $70,790 median in District of Columbia down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in California (66,620 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, First-Line Supervisors of Transportation and Material Moving Workers, Except Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors stands number 61 by employment and number 377 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 18% more than its group median, and it supplies 4.4% 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 $61,890, 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 34,710 jobs, 5.7% of the national total. Employment rank and pay rank are different lists: the second table re-sorts metros with at least 500 jobs in this occupation by mean pay, the floor keeping a handful of workers from posing as a market.

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, $36,340 a year, against $77,780 in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. That is the metro effect in one line: identical job title, materially different pay, decided mostly by which labor market the job sits in.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

The median annual wage of $61,890 works out to $5,158 a month before taxes, $2,380 per biweekly paycheck, and $1,190 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($48,750) to the 75th ($77,520) is worth $28,770 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 $68,079 would sit between the median ($61,890) and the 75th percentile ($77,520), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $48,750, is $13,140 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: Railroad Conductors and Yardmasters, Crane and Tower Operators, Captains, Mates, and Pilots of Water Vessels, Locomotive Engineers, Sailors and Marine Oilers, Aircraft Service Attendants. The Careers hub carries the whole branch, group by group.