School Bus Monitors 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 ($27,250) to the 90th ($43,240). 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 72,140 jobs nationally, School Bus Monitors make up 0.05% of U.S. employment as BLS measured it in May 2024. The map is uneven: New York alone holds 18,040 of those jobs, the top three states hold 39.3%, and the deepest concentration sits in New York (location quotient 4.04, where 1.00 is the national average). A quotient above 2 usually signals a local industry cluster rather than evenly spread demand.

The spread matters as much as the center. Earners at the 90th percentile make $43,240, which is 1.6 times the $27,250 at the 10th, a difference of $15,990 annually. Because the mean wage ($35,270) sits above the median ($34,980), a typical offer should be judged against the median and the 25th to 75th percentile band, not the mean.

Pay by state

Sorted by employment, the table below puts New York first at 18,040 jobs; sorted by median pay instead, Washington would lead at $41,720. Both orderings are printed in one table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, School Bus Monitors stands number 323 by employment and number 788 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 40% less than its group median, and it supplies 2.0% of the group's 3,654,920 jobs. In 21 of the 48 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $34,980, 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 14,540 jobs, 20.2% 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, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $29,120 a year, against $42,070 in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV. 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 School Bus Monitors paycheck, gross, is $1,345 every two weeks on an annual $34,980, which is $2,915 a month and $673 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($31,200) to the 75th ($38,840) is worth $7,640 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 $38,478 would sit between the median ($34,980) and the 75th percentile ($38,840), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $31,200, is $3,780 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: Security Guards, 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. Every one of the 826 published occupations is indexed on the Careers hub.