High paying transportation jobs in Kankakee, IL with no experience

The best paid transportation occupations in Kankakee, IL 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 Kankakee, IL run 3.6% below the national average (2024), so a Kankakee, IL salary is worth about 1.04× 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, Kankakee, IL · Employed

1Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers$46,750
Postsecondary nondegree award
$33,770 – $76,780760
2Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators$46,320
No formal educational credential
$36,340 – $50,070200
3Bus Drivers, School$44,870
High school diploma or equivalent
$33,600 – $59,250160
4Light Truck Drivers$42,030
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,200 – $84,780270
5Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand$37,110
No formal educational credential
$31,200 – $48,0401,190
6Shuttle Drivers and Chauffeurs$35,580
No formal educational credential
$31,200 – $42,36060
7Cleaners of Vehicles and Equipment$33,970
No formal educational credential
$31,200 – $45,460160
8Stockers and Order Fillers$33,110
No formal educational credential
$31,770 – $41,700770
9Packers and Packagers, Hand$32,370
No formal educational credential
$31,200 – $41,050120
10Driver/Sales Workers$32,280
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,200 – $58,79070
11Parking Attendants$31,270
No formal educational credential
$31,200 – $38,17030

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

#	Occupation	MedianKankakee, IL	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck DriversPostsecondary nondegree award	$46,750	$33,770 – $76,780	760
2	Industrial Truck and Tractor OperatorsNo formal educational credential	$46,320	$36,340 – $50,070	200
3	Bus Drivers, SchoolHigh school diploma or equivalent	$44,870	$33,600 – $59,250	160
4	Light Truck DriversHigh school diploma or equivalent	$42,030	$31,200 – $84,780	270
5	Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, HandNo formal educational credential	$37,110	$31,200 – $48,040	1,190
6	Shuttle Drivers and ChauffeursNo formal educational credential	$35,580	$31,200 – $42,360	60
7	Cleaners of Vehicles and EquipmentNo formal educational credential	$33,970	$31,200 – $45,460	160
8	Stockers and Order FillersNo formal educational credential	$33,110	$31,770 – $41,700	770
9	Packers and Packagers, HandNo formal educational credential	$32,370	$31,200 – $41,050	120
10	Driver/Sales WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$32,280	$31,200 – $58,790	70
11	Parking AttendantsNo formal educational credential	$31,270	$31,200 – $38,170	30

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Kankakee, IL. 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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