Crossing Guards and Flaggers salary

SOC 33-9091 · BLS OEWS May 2025

Median

$38,100

per year, nationally

Middle half

$34,430–$47,540

25th to 75th percentile

Employed

94,360

in the U.S.

Growth 2024–34

+3.6%

18,000 openings/yr

What the range looks like

A single median hides most of what a job pays. The bar below is the full national range: the wash spans the 10th to 90th percentile, the solid bar is the middle half, and the tick is the median.

$30,840$61,690

10th: $30,840
25th: $34,430
Median: $38,100
75th: $47,540
90th: $61,690

Getting in

Typical education to enter: No formal educational credential
Related work experience: None
On-the-job training: Short-term on-the-job training

Entry requirements describe what is typical, not mandatory. Source: BLS Employment Projections, 2024–34.

Where crossing guards and flaggers earn the most

Nominal pay and pay adjusted for local prices rank states differently — a high-wage state with high costs can be worse off in real terms than a middling one. Switch between the two below.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	State	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	North Dakota	$60,230	89.0	50	0.19×
2	California	$50,610	110.7	9,390	0.85×
3	Washington	$48,940	107.0	3,340	1.55×
4	Minnesota	$48,100	98.6	260	0.15×
5	Oregon	$47,110	103.4	2,250	1.89×
6	Wyoming	$47,070	92.7	160	0.94×
7	South Dakota	$46,940	88.6	60	0.21×
8	New Hampshire	$45,980	104.2	440	1.06×
9	Vermont	$45,410	98.0	340	1.85×
10	New York	$44,730	107.9	10,430	1.77×
11	Massachusetts	$43,460	105.8	1,700	0.77×
12	Hawaii	$42,780	110.0	230	0.62×
13	Connecticut	$41,950	103.6	1,670	1.62×
14	New Jersey	$41,600	108.8	7,270	2.80×
15	Iowa	$41,240	87.8	170	0.18×
16	District of Columbia	$40,800	109.9	520	1.22×
17	Maine	$40,140	97.0	1,140	2.93×
18	Idaho	$40,060	95.5	470	0.90×
19	Illinois	$38,990	100.0	2,240	0.61×
20	Nebraska	$37,990	90.1	110	0.18×
21	Colorado	$37,620	103.1	2,810	1.61×
22	Virginia	$37,560	101.1	1,940	0.78×
23	Ohio	$37,440	92.8	2,700	0.80×
24	Indiana	$37,440	93.3	2,230	1.15×
25	Arizona	$37,440	100.7	2,170	1.11×
26	Michigan	$36,540	96.2	2,150	0.80×
27	Delaware	$36,500	99.8	580	1.98×
28	Tennessee	$35,960	91.9	1,460	0.73×
29	Maryland	$35,850	105.0	3,420	2.04×
30	Pennsylvania	$35,810	97.6	9,410	2.56×
31	Florida	$35,730	103.4	5,690	0.94×
32	Wisconsin	$35,580	94.1	990	0.55×
33	Utah	$35,480	98.9	1,890	1.79×
34	Kansas	$35,440	90.1	180	0.20×
35	Kentucky	$34,450	90.2	420	0.34×
36	Georgia	$34,230	96.3	2,030	0.68×
37	North Carolina	$33,730	94.3	2,760	0.92×
38	Missouri	$33,560	90.8	150	0.08×
39	Texas	$33,350	97.1	2,830	0.33×
40	West Virginia	$32,800	89.5	1,190	2.80×
41	South Carolina	$32,690	93.7	1,050	0.75×
42	Montana	$32,600	94.6	70	0.21×
43	Nevada	$31,480	100.0	1,500	1.59×
44	New Mexico	$31,460	92.2	510	0.97×
45	Rhode Island	$31,200	102.3	—	—
46	Arkansas	$30,830	86.9	—	—
47	Alabama	$29,190	88.8	250	0.20×
48	Oklahoma	$28,610	87.8	130	0.13×
49	Louisiana	$25,450	88.2	440	0.38×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. States where crossing guards and flaggers wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Best paying metro areas for crossing guards and flaggers

The 40 highest-paying metros with a published estimate. BLS suppresses roughly half of all occupation-by-metro cells, so a metro absent here has no local figure rather than a low one.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	Metro area	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	Charleston-North Charleston, SC	$73,990	101.0	140	0.58×
2	Salem, OR	$62,990	103.6	250	2.15×
3	Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA	$62,880	102.4	40	1.29×
4	Columbus, OH	$61,690	95.5	960	1.44×
5	Vallejo, CA	$60,270	108.5	290	3.34×
6	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$58,810	110.4	460	0.66×
7	Bakersfield-Delano, CA	$58,060	100.9	290	1.40×
8	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$57,190	104.8	110	0.09×
9	Bellingham, WA	$56,450	103.3	60	1.02×
10	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$55,700	113.6	2,500	0.66×
11	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$55,360	111.9	840	0.90×
12	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$54,580	115.6	1,150	0.80×
13	Gainesville, FL	$52,620	96.7	80	0.83×
14	Altoona, PA	$52,030	89.5	140	3.97×
15	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$51,930	106.7	630	0.96×
16	Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA	$51,400	103.7	80	0.97×
17	Wenatchee-East Wenatchee, WA	$50,650	103.9	80	2.43×
18	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$50,020	111.1	1,780	1.41×
19	Kingston, NY	$49,930	100.7	40	1.20×
20	San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA	$48,100	108.6	80	1.09×
21	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$47,570	105.4	1,620	2.21×
22	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA	$47,130	110.5	160	0.81×
23	Fresno, CA	$46,190	102.2	220	0.78×
24	Burlington-South Burlington, VT	$45,980	100.9	130	1.73×
25	Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA	$45,760	100.3	340	2.19×
26	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	$45,650	107.8	170	1.39×
27	Eugene-Springfield, OR	$45,280	101.6	90	0.95×
28	Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA	$44,880	105.6	90	1.59×
29	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$44,840	108.3	1,010	0.62×
30	Madison, WI	$44,840	97.3	160	0.66×
31	Kennewick-Richland, WA	$44,530	100.1	50	0.58×
32	Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA	$44,530	108.8	50	0.39×
33	Bangor, ME	$44,280	96.5	—	—
34	Trenton-Princeton, NJ	$44,150	103.2	170	1.16×
35	Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT	$43,670	100.4	140	1.85×
36	New Haven, CT	$43,460	104.6	230	1.34×
37	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$43,440	112.6	13,930	2.42×
38	Mobile, AL	$43,170	88.1	30	0.29×
39	South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI	$43,010	92.9	70	0.92×
40	Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX	$42,760	98.1	320	0.41×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. Metro areas where crossing guards and flaggers wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

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