Parking Attendants Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Parking Attendants offer sit among all 134,650 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

With 134,650 jobs nationally, Parking Attendants make up 0.09% of U.S. employment as BLS measured it in May 2024. The map is uneven: California alone holds 24,850 of those jobs, the top three states hold 40.3%, and the deepest concentration sits in District of Columbia (location quotient 3.24, where 1.00 is the national average). A quotient above 2 usually signals a local industry cluster rather than evenly spread demand.

Read the ladder as a career path in numbers: $29,590 at the 25th percentile, $34,600 at the middle, $37,230 at the 75th. The full 10-to-90 range runs $18,880, 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

Sorted by employment, the table below puts California first at 24,850 jobs; sorted by median pay instead, Washington would lead at $41,200. Both orderings are printed in one table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Parking Attendants stands number 226 by employment and number 797 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 34% less than its group median, and it supplies 1.0% of the group's 13,645,590 jobs. In 15 of the 50 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $34,600, 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 13,490 jobs, 10.0% 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, San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $21,560 a year, against $44,500 in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. 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, $34,600 a year is $2,883 a month gross, $1,331 every two weeks, $665 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($29,590) to the 75th ($37,230) is worth $7,640 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 $2,883 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 $38,060 would sit between the median ($34,600) and the 75th percentile ($37,230), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $29,590, is $5,010 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

The occupations BLS groups with this one, by size: Motor Vehicle Operators, All Other, Machine Feeders and Offbearers, Railroad Conductors and Yardmasters, Crane and Tower Operators, Captains, Mates, and Pilots of Water Vessels, Locomotive Engineers. Every one of the 826 published occupations is indexed on the Careers hub.