Parking Enforcement Workers Career, Salary and Skills
Parking Enforcement Workers have a BLS-reported national median annual wage of $46,730 based on the 2025 OEWS dataset, with reported national employment of 9,050. Wage data is published for 80 locations.
Occupation description
Patrol assigned area, such as public parking lot or city streets to issue tickets to overtime parking violators and illegally parked vehicles.
O*NET code
33-3041.00
Job zone
2
Typical education
Not recorded
Experience
None
National salary and employment
Median annual
$46,730
Hourly median
$22.47
Employment
9,050
Data year
2025
National salary distribution
$35,130
10th
$39,870
25th
$46,730
Median
$60,490
75th
$75,340
90th
Top skills
| Skill | Importance | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Speaking | 3.12 | 3.00 |
| Monitoring | 3.12 | 3.00 |
| Social Perceptiveness | 3.00 | 2.75 |
| Active Listening | 3.00 | 2.88 |
| Time Management | 3.00 | 2.50 |
| Critical Thinking | 3.00 | 3.00 |
| Reading Comprehension | 2.88 | 2.88 |
| Coordination | 2.88 | 2.88 |
| Service Orientation | 2.88 | 2.62 |
| Writing | 2.75 | 2.25 |
Typical tasks
- Maintain close communications with dispatching personnel, using two-way radios or cell phones.
- Patrol an assigned area by vehicle or on foot to ensure public compliance with existing parking ordinance.
- Identify vehicles in violation of parking codes, checking with dispatchers when necessary to confirm identities or to determine whether vehicles need to be booted or towed.
- Write warnings and citations for illegally parked vehicles.
- Appear in court at hearings regarding contested traffic citations.
- Maintain assigned equipment and supplies, such as hand-held citation computers, citation books, rain gear, tire-marking chalk, and street cones.
- Respond to and make radio dispatch calls regarding parking violations and complaints.
- Enter and retrieve information pertaining to vehicle registration, identification, and status, using hand-held computers.
Technology
- Microsoft Office software
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Windows
- Microsoft Word
- Ticket issuing software
- Vehicle information databases
- Web browser software
- Complus Data Innovations FastTrack
- Integrated Parking Solutions MApp
- Microsoft Access
- Microsoft Excel
Parking Enforcement Workers salary by location
Areas with the highest reported employment for this occupation.
- Parking Enforcement Workers Salary in CAMedian $62,280 · Employment 1,710
- Parking Enforcement Workers Salary in New York, NYMedian $45,040 · Employment 970
- Parking Enforcement Workers Salary in NYMedian $47,590 · Employment 730
- Parking Enforcement Workers Salary in FLMedian $46,160 · Employment 710
- Parking Enforcement Workers Salary in Los Angeles, CAMedian $55,820 · Employment 670
- Parking Enforcement Workers Salary in PAMedian $45,770 · Employment 660
- Parking Enforcement Workers Salary in San Francisco, CAMedian $86,040 · Employment 510
- Parking Enforcement Workers Salary in NJMedian $43,920 · Employment 470
- Parking Enforcement Workers Salary in Philadelphia, PAMedian $46,730 · Employment 460
- Parking Enforcement Workers Salary in Washington, DCMedian $60,640 · Employment 320
- Parking Enforcement Workers Salary in MAMedian $51,980 · Employment 300
- Parking Enforcement Workers Salary in TXMedian $38,720 · Employment 270
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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.