First-Line Supervisors of Transportation and Material Moving Workers, Except Aircraft Cargo Handling
What the pay figures show
- The pay leader for this job is Washington, at $74,250. Tax does not shift it. Prices are the twist. Adjust for what a basket costs and Wyoming comes out ahead, worth $64,382. Worth knowing before anyone packs.
- Nominal and post-tax rankings agree for first-line supervisors of transportation and material moving workers, except aircraft cargo handling: Washington leads at $74,250 on both. Applying regional price parities separates them, promoting Wyoming to $64,382 in real terms. Price level, not tax, is the operative variable for this occupation — and it is the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$62,890
People doing it
623,640
Highest paid
$74,250
WA
Best off, really
$64,382
WY, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$43,360
Highest tenth
$96,150
Lowest, really
$43,469
DC
States with data
51
National average
$66,860
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
90.85%
WY, against a national 100
Where this job actually pays best
- The state you work in changes what this job pays, but less than you would expect. Level out tax and prices and the whole country sits between $43,469 and $64,382. That is a real difference. It is not usually a moving-house difference.
- 623,640 people do this job across the country, and the middle one earns $62,890. Common work, though not one of the giants.
- Every state reports this one. All 51 jurisdictions publish a figure, and the middle wage is $62,890, so the comparison above leaves nobody out.
- Interstate variation for first-line supervisors of transportation and material moving workers, except aircraft cargo handling is contained relative to other occupations, and narrows further under adjustment: the real range is $43,469 to $64,382. A differential of this magnitude is real but rarely decisive on its own, which is worth stating plainly against wage tables that present nominal gaps without either adjustment.
- National employment in first-line supervisors of transportation and material moving workers, except aircraft cargo handling is 623,640 — a substantial occupation, though an order of magnitude below the largest. Regional differentials here move real aggregate sums without dominating any single state's wage bill.
- All 51 jurisdictions publish an occupational median for first-line supervisors of transportation and material moving workers, except aircraft cargo handling, so the spread described above is a complete national range rather than a range across a reported subset.
Pay band: First-Line Supervisors of Transportation and Material Moving Workers, Except Aircraft Cargo Handling
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $43,360 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $62,890 |
| Top tenth earn over | $96,150 |
| This salary | $62,890 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
Where these numbers come from
| BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 estimates, time-series bulk download (oe.data.0.Current) | as of 2025-05-01 |
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Steps in First-Line Supervisors of Transportation and Material Moving Workers, Except Aircraft Cargo Handling
The national median for this job
$62,890around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $43,360 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $62,890 |
| Top tenth | $96,150 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
First-Line Supervisors of Transportation and Material Moving Workers, Except Aircraft Cargo Handling, state by state
The national median for this job
51states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | West Virginia · $52,420 |
|---|---|
| Highest | Washington · $74,250 |
| Spread | $21,830 |
One dot per state that publishes this job. A missing state means suppressed data, not zero pay.
Best paid, and best off
The national median for this job
| Texas pays | $60,000 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $61,744 |
Median pay against the same pay once BEA price parities are applied.
Every state, three ways
Sorted by what the money is actually worth. "Kept" is take-home for a single filer after federal, FICA and state income tax. "Really worth" divides that by the state's own price level, so a dollar in each row buys the same thing. Tap a state to put your own salary into it. States BLS does not publish for this job are absent — that means no published figure, not no work.
| State | Median pay | Kept after tax | Really worth |
|---|---|---|---|
| WY | $70,590 | $58,490 | $64,382 |
| SD | $64,780 | $54,231 | $61,559 |
| ND | $65,070 | $54,454 | $61,480 |
| RI | $72,750 | $57,701 | $56,898 |
| IN | $64,700 | $52,287 | $56,721 |
| WA | $74,250 | $61,065 | $56,249 |
| OK | $61,270 | $49,154 | $55,676 |
| LA | $60,260 | $49,177 | $55,665 |
| MD | $74,070 | $57,784 | $55,580 |
| WI | $64,560 | $51,676 | $55,508 |
| TN | $61,160 | $51,322 | $55,474 |
| OH | $61,760 | $50,822 | $55,355 |
| IA | $60,490 | $49,097 | $55,310 |
| KS | $62,940 | $49,529 | $55,053 |
| SC | $63,470 | $51,285 | $55,041 |
| MN | $68,430 | $53,841 | $54,707 |
| MS | $59,290 | $47,540 | $54,461 |
| MT | $60,670 | $48,834 | $54,113 |
| NE | $60,630 | $48,841 | $54,042 |
| KY | $60,090 | $48,477 | $53,584 |
| AR | $56,810 | $46,183 | $53,386 |
| MO | $60,370 | $48,787 | $53,167 |
| AK | $64,420 | $53,941 | $53,032 |
| AL | $59,780 | $47,639 | $52,950 |
| GA | $63,540 | $50,663 | $52,392 |
| UT | $62,600 | $49,693 | $52,308 |
| IL | $65,420 | $51,651 | $52,250 |
| NV | $60,340 | $50,663 | $52,241 |
| TX | $60,000 | $50,390 | $51,855 |
| CO | $65,380 | $52,545 | $51,828 |
| NC | $60,070 | $48,558 | $51,581 |
| AZ | $63,360 | $51,908 | $51,341 |
| MI | $60,280 | $48,304 | $51,287 |
| PA | $61,460 | $49,676 | $50,950 |
| NH | $63,950 | $53,564 | $50,846 |
| VT | $60,410 | $48,843 | $50,544 |
| NM | $55,790 | $45,551 | $50,396 |
| CT | $65,440 | $51,912 | $50,065 |
| NJ | $67,980 | $54,446 | $50,004 |
| DE | $62,510 | $49,504 | $49,877 |
| ID | $56,290 | $45,279 | $49,526 |
| FL | $61,000 | $51,194 | $49,485 |
| NY | $67,300 | $53,138 | $49,373 |
| ME | $60,090 | $47,726 | $49,153 |
| VA | $62,130 | $49,290 | $48,923 |
| MA | $65,570 | $51,907 | $47,956 |
| WV | $52,420 | $42,753 | $47,624 |
| HI | $65,000 | $50,911 | $46,875 |
| CA | $65,550 | $52,678 | $46,791 |
| OR | $61,540 | $46,793 | $44,683 |
| DC | $60,310 | $48,165 | $43,469 |
Sources and assumptions
- These are middle-of-the-range figures for this job, not what a new starter is offered. Half the people doing this job earn under $62,890 nationally, half over. Your own experience and employer will move you well away from that midpoint in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, nothing paid into a pension before tax — that is the household behind every take-home figure for this job. It is the simplest case on purpose, so the states can be compared against each other rather than against each other's family circumstances. City income taxes are not counted. On that household, Washington keeps the most at $61,065.
- One price figure per state stands behind the real-terms numbers for this job. Inside any state, a big city costs far more than a small town, so this is a fair way to compare states with each other and a poor way to price a specific move. The wage figures and the price figures are also from different years. At the bottom of the range sits the District of Columbia, on $43,469.
- All wage figures for first-line supervisors of transportation and material moving workers, except aircraft cargo handling are medians rather than entry or offer rates; the national median is $62,890. Within-state dispersion typically exceeds between-state dispersion in this data, so an individual's expected wage is determined more by experience, sector and employer than by the state comparisons presented here.
- The household modeled for first-line supervisors of transportation and material moving workers, except aircraft cargo handling is a single filer, standard deduction, no dependants, no pre-tax contributions. Holding the household constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful; it also means the absolute figures overstate liability for most real filers. On that basis Washington retains the most, $61,065. Municipal and school-district income taxes are not included in any state.
- Real-terms results for first-line supervisors of transportation and material moving workers, except aircraft cargo handling rest on statewide regional price parities, which average over intra-state variation that is itself larger than much of the interstate variation. They support comparison between states and not the pricing of an individual relocation; the District of Columbia anchors the distribution at $43,469. Wage and price series are published on separate cycles and therefore carry different reference periods.