Tank Car, Truck, and Ship Loaders · SOC 53-7121

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Tank Car, Truck, and Ship Loaderss

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025U.S. metropolitan areas

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for tank car, truck, and ship loaders. Areas where BLS suppressed the median are not ranked. Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Top 23 of 23 metro areas

Tank Car, Truck, and Ship Loaders: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	Billings, MT	$83,390	50	0.5
2	Providence-Warwick, RI-MA	$83,160	70	0.1
3	Corpus Christi, TX	$81,920	60	0.3
4	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$77,490	80	0.0
5	Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX	$76,850	200	0.0
6	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$64,890	120	0.0
7	Lake Charles, LA	$63,170	40	0.4
8	Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN	$63,100	60	0.1
9	New Orleans-Metairie, LA	$62,200	210	0.5
10	Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN	$61,420	1,460	0.3
11	Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX	$61,220	970	0.3
12	St. Louis, MO-IL	$60,950	320	0.2
13	Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI	$60,440	80	0.0
14	Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA	$57,940	60	0.7
15	Columbus, OH	$57,030	50	0.0
16	Memphis, TN-MS-AR	$55,730	60	0.1
17	Charleston, WV	$54,750	50	0.5
18	Salt Lake City-Murray, UT	$53,370	Not published	Not published
19	Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN	$50,380	120	0.1
20	Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY	$50,160	40	0.1
21	Baton Rouge, LA	$49,700	100	0.3
22	Greeley, CO	$46,230	Not published	Not published
23	Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC	$44,010	80	0.1

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Tank Car, Truck, and Ship Loaders overview.

About this data. Estimates are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 release, retrieved from bls.gov/oes/tables.htm on July 24, 2026. OEWS estimates describe metropolitan/nonmetropolitan areas and states — not city limits — and are not designed for year-over-year comparisons. See BLS methodology, our plain-English methodology, and sources. CitySalaryData is independent and not affiliated with BLS.