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Parking Enforcement Workers earn $46,730 a year at the midpoint

Half earn more than that and half earn less. The lowest tenth are paid about $35,130, the highest tenth about $75,340 — figures from the 2025 federal wage survey.

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$46,730median a year · United States
$22.47an hour $51,190average 9,050people
Nine in ten people in this work earn between the two ends. The shaded part is the middle half — where most people are.
$39,87025th $46,730median $60,49075th
$35,13010th percentile $75,34090th percentile
$39,870a year at the 25th percentile, nearer a first job
$68,120best-paying state · Washington
$27,550lowest-paying state · Mississippi
+46%top state against the national median
  • Read the spread, not the middle. The median is the midpoint across everyone in the occupation, most of them years into the work. A beginner starts nearer the 10th to 25th percentile, which is why the spread is published alongside it.
  • What the figure counts. The figure counts base pay plus tips, commissions and production bonuses. It leaves out the self-employed, unpaid family workers, private household workers, and the value of benefits or profit sharing.
  • The annual figure is arithmetic. For hourly occupations the annual figure is the hourly rate times 2080 hours. It is a calculation, not observed earnings: part time is the norm in retail and food service.
  • Where you live moves it more than your resume does. National figures. A state or metro area can sit far from the national number, and that gap is usually larger than any difference a resume makes.
  • Not in these numbers. Growth and annual openings are not in this dataset. They come from the separate Employment Projections tables, where an opening is a modelled ten year average and not a posted vacancy.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, 2025. Retrieved through the BLS Public Data API on 2026-08-13. bls.gov/oes “BLS.gov cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from BLS.gov.”

State matters a lotThe same job pays $68,120 in Washington and $27,550 in Mississippi — a gap of $40,570 a year.

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  • Entered and retrieved information pertaining to vehicle registration, identification, and status, using hand-held computers.
  • Maintained close communications with dispatching personnel, using two-way radios or cell phones.
  • Patrolled an assigned area by vehicle or on foot to ensure public compliance with existing parking ordinance.

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Adjacent work, and what it pays

Occupations in the same group of the federal classification — the usual next steps, or the ones beside this one.

Parking Enforcement Workers$46,730
Detectives and Criminal Investigators$93,790+$47,060 Police and sheriff patrol officers$76,210+$29,480 Fish and Game Wardens$74,060+$27,330 Correctional Officers and Jailers$58,940+$12,210 Bailiffs$56,600+$9,870

Parking enforcement worker pay rate, hourly to annual

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$46,738a year

Parking enforcement worker wages in each state

The 33 states where the most people do this work, of 41 with a published figure: their medians range by 2.26 times. Figures are the 2025 survey.

State Median a year Where most start 10th to 90th Employed
Washington $68,120 $53,130 $53,130 — $76,870 190
California $62,280 $40,040 $40,040 — $86,040 1,710
Oregon $59,810 $43,270 $43,270 — $76,750 80
Nevada $55,040 $51,570 $51,570 — $84,530 40
Utah $52,670 $37,360 $37,360 — $57,580 70
Massachusetts $51,980 $43,710 $43,710 — $64,040 300
New Hampshire $51,580 $35,970 $35,970 — $59,870 70
Wisconsin $49,060 $37,120 $37,120 — $71,400 150
Ohio $48,510 $29,170 $29,170 — $59,570 110
Colorado $47,910 $41,460 $41,460 — $61,800 100
Montana $47,750 $38,930 $38,930 — $57,020 40
New York $47,590 $37,380 $37,380 — $75,940 730
Virginia $46,840 $35,920 $35,920 — $60,790 130
Florida $46,160 $36,630 $36,630 — $58,650 710
Maryland $46,060 $36,460 $36,460 — $74,220 250
Pennsylvania $45,770 $34,720 $34,720 — $47,780 660
Oklahoma $45,200 $30,740 $30,740 — $50,520 60
Connecticut $44,100 $41,520 $41,520 — $74,020 70
New Jersey $43,920 $35,240 $35,240 — $57,850 470
Iowa $43,370 $36,810 $36,810 — $57,680 50
South Carolina $43,040 $35,770 $35,770 — $56,660 120
Kansas $42,420 $34,730 $34,730 — $51,960 40
North Carolina $42,410 $33,780 $33,780 — $53,960 80
Minnesota $41,670 $38,790 $38,790 — $59,960 40
Delaware $40,360 $37,440 $37,440 — $57,720 70
Indiana $39,940 $25,340 $25,340 — $50,030 100
Alabama $39,270 $28,350 $28,350 — $47,840 40
Missouri $39,040 $36,970 $36,970 — $51,510 70
Texas $38,720 $30,890 $30,890 — $46,590 270
Michigan $37,460 $31,910 $31,910 — $48,310 180
Idaho $33,930 $33,880 $33,880 — $49,800 60
West Virginia $30,490 $25,980 $25,980 — $37,660 50
Arkansas $30,100 $30,100 $30,100 — $40,140 50

Place 595 of 788 by median pay

Better paid than 24% of the occupations in the survey.

  1. 593 Self-Enrichment Teachers $46,800
  2. 594 Correspondence Clerks $46,800
  3. 595 Parking Enforcement Workers $46,730
  4. 596 Cabinetmakers and Bench Carpenters $46,680
  5. 597 Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders $46,570

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What is a parking enforcement worker’s yearly income?

A parking enforcement worker makes a median of $46,730 a year (2025 survey). The middle half earn between $39,870 and $60,490.

What is a parking enforcement worker’s hourly pay rate?

The median pay rate is $22.47 an hour; the average is $51,190 a year.

What is the starting pay for a parking enforcement worker?

Starting pay is usually near the 25th percentile, $39,870 a year, and sometimes as low as the 10th, $35,130.

Which state pays parking enforcement workers the most?

Washington, with a median of $68,120 a year.

How many people work as parking enforcement workers?

About 9,050 in the United States — number 595 of 788 occupations by median pay.

Work that pays nearly the same

Median pay within $120 of what parking enforcement workers earn — $46,730 a year — but not always the same spread.

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