Parking Enforcement Workers 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 Parking Enforcement Workers ladder earns the 25th percentile wage, $39,930. 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

May 2024 employment stood at 7,770, or 0.01% of the U.S. total. California leads the state table with 1,460 jobs; the top three states sum to 36.4% of the occupation. The concentration measure tells the more interesting story: Delaware posts a location quotient of 3.94, so a worker there is far more likely to meet a colleague in this field than the national pattern suggests.

Read the ladder as a career path in numbers: $39,930 at the 25th percentile, $47,150 at the middle, $61,210 at the 75th. The full 10-to-90 range runs $40,620, a ratio of 2.1 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 1,460 jobs; sorted by median pay instead, Washington would lead at $70,310. Both orderings are printed in one table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Parking Enforcement Workers stands number 717 by employment and number 592 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 20% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.2% of the group's 3,654,920 jobs. In 12 of the 38 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $47,150, 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 750 jobs, 9.7% 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, Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $45,620 a year, against $54,380 in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. 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

The median Parking Enforcement Workers paycheck, gross, is $1,813 every two weeks on an annual $47,150, which is $3,929 a month and $907 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($39,930) to the 75th ($61,210) is worth $21,280 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. Gross is a starting point, not a budget: the paycheck calculator nets it down by state, an offer comparison lives in the salary calculator, and the raise vs inflation calculator separates a real raise from a nominal one.

To place a real offer: a salary of $51,865 would sit between the median ($47,150) and the 75th percentile ($61,210), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $39,930, is $7,220 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

The occupations BLS groups with this one, by size: Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers, Correctional Officers and Jailers, Firefighters, First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives, Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers, Detectives and Criminal Investigators. Every one of the 826 published occupations is indexed on the Careers hub.