Parking Attendants Career, Salary and Skills
Parking Attendants have a BLS-reported national median annual wage of $35,150 based on the 2025 OEWS dataset, with reported national employment of 137,880. Wage data is published for 269 locations.
Occupation description
Park vehicles or issue tickets for customers in a parking lot or garage. May park or tend vehicles in environments such as a car dealership or rental car facility. May collect fee.
O*NET code
53-6021.00
Job zone
2
Typical education
High School Diploma or the equivalent (such as a GED)
Experience
None
National salary and employment
Median annual
$35,150
Hourly median
$16.90
Employment
137,880
Data year
2025
National salary distribution
Top skills
| Skill | Importance | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Speaking | 3.50 | 2.38 |
| Service Orientation | 3.38 | 2.50 |
| Active Listening | 3.25 | 2.75 |
| Social Perceptiveness | 3.00 | 2.38 |
| Critical Thinking | 2.88 | 2.75 |
| Writing | 2.75 | 2.00 |
| Monitoring | 2.75 | 2.38 |
| Mathematics | 2.75 | 2.25 |
| Coordination | 2.75 | 2.25 |
| Judgment and Decision Making | 2.75 | 2.38 |
Typical tasks
- Take numbered tags from customers, locate vehicles, and deliver vehicles, or provide customers with instructions for locating vehicles.
- Inspect vehicles to detect any damage.
- Greet customers and open their car doors.
- Issue ticket stubs or place numbered tags on windshields, log tags or attach tag to customers' keys, and give customers matching tags for locating parked vehicles.
- Perform cash handling tasks, such as making change, balancing and recording cash drawer, or distributing tips.
- Explain and calculate parking charges, collect fees from customers, and respond to customer complaints.
- Park and retrieve automobiles for customers in parking lots, storage garages, or new car lots.
- Provide customer assistance and information, such as giving directions or handling wheelchairs.
Technology
- CorePark Valet
- Email software
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office software
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft Word
- Payment processing software
- SMS Valet
Parking Attendants salary by location
Areas with the highest reported employment for this occupation.
- Parking Attendants Salary in CAMedian $38,060 · Employment 21,290
- Parking Attendants Salary in FLMedian $29,650 · Employment 17,670
- Parking Attendants Salary in New York, NYMedian $35,920 · Employment 14,220
- Parking Attendants Salary in NYMedian $35,920 · Employment 12,440
- Parking Attendants Salary in TXMedian $31,200 · Employment 12,100
- Parking Attendants Salary in Los Angeles, CAMedian $37,280 · Employment 11,070
- Parking Attendants Salary in Miami, FLMedian $29,650 · Employment 8,550
- Parking Attendants Salary in Dallas, TXMedian $31,770 · Employment 5,490
- Parking Attendants Salary in ILMedian $36,730 · Employment 5,320
- Parking Attendants Salary in NJMedian $35,100 · Employment 5,110
- Parking Attendants Salary in PAMedian $31,100 · Employment 4,930
- Parking Attendants Salary in GAMedian $28,960 · Employment 4,660
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Career and skills data: O*NET 31.0 (onetcenter.org). Salary and employment data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS, 2025 (bls.gov/oes). Figures are published survey estimates, not real-time market data.