High paying transportation jobs in Dover, DE with no experience

The best paid transportation occupations in Dover, DE that require neither a degree nor prior experience in a related job. This is the narrowest cut on the site, so it is also the shortest list: where a field has only two or three such occupations, there is no page at all rather than a page pretending otherwise.

Cost of living: prices in Dover, DE run 2.5% below the national average (2024), so a Dover, DE salary is worth about 1.03× its face value in national terms. That scales every wage here by the same factor — it changes what the numbers mean, not their order.

Local wage estimates are suppressed more often than state ones — BLS withholds any figure too few local employers report — so an occupation missing here simply has no published local estimate.

Wages: BLS OEWS, May 2025 · Cost of living: BEA regional price parities, 2024

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OccupationMedian, Dover, DE · Employed

1Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers$54,150
Postsecondary nondegree award
$44,880 – $67,6201,440
2Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators$46,210
No formal educational credential
$35,760 – $58,730500
3Light Truck Drivers$39,780
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,200 – $93,850550
4Stockers and Order Fillers$39,150
No formal educational credential
$31,200 – $49,0201,330
5Bus Drivers, School$37,620
High school diploma or equivalent
$35,940 – $59,230330
6Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand$36,180
No formal educational credential
$31,200 – $45,720860
7Shuttle Drivers and Chauffeurs$35,150
No formal educational credential
$31,200 – $60,510200
8Cleaners of Vehicles and Equipment$34,540
No formal educational credential
$31,200 – $38,460230
9Automotive and Watercraft Service Attendants$33,280
No formal educational credential
$31,200 – $38,79060
10Driver/Sales Workers$31,200
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,200 – $31,200150
11Motor Vehicle Operators, All Other$31,200
No formal educational credential
$31,200 – $65,37050

Bars run from the 10th to the 90th percentile; the middle half is shaded darker, and the tick is the median.

#	Occupation	MedianDover, DE	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck DriversPostsecondary nondegree award	$54,150	$44,880 – $67,620	1,440
2	Industrial Truck and Tractor OperatorsNo formal educational credential	$46,210	$35,760 – $58,730	500
3	Light Truck DriversHigh school diploma or equivalent	$39,780	$31,200 – $93,850	550
4	Stockers and Order FillersNo formal educational credential	$39,150	$31,200 – $49,020	1,330
5	Bus Drivers, SchoolHigh school diploma or equivalent	$37,620	$35,940 – $59,230	330
6	Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, HandNo formal educational credential	$36,180	$31,200 – $45,720	860
7	Shuttle Drivers and ChauffeursNo formal educational credential	$35,150	$31,200 – $60,510	200
8	Cleaners of Vehicles and EquipmentNo formal educational credential	$34,540	$31,200 – $38,460	230
9	Automotive and Watercraft Service AttendantsNo formal educational credential	$33,280	$31,200 – $38,790	60
10	Driver/Sales WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$31,200	$31,200 – $31,200	150
11	Motor Vehicle Operators, All OtherNo formal educational credential	$31,200	$31,200 – $65,370	50

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Dover, DE. The rarer ones are real jobs — but a 1,190-person occupation at the top of a list answers a different question than the one most readers are asking.

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