43 Series · SOC 43-5021

Couriers and Messengers

National salary data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (May 2024)

Median Salary

$38,340

per year

Median Hourly

$18.43/hr

per hour

Mean Salary

$40,060

average

Employment

71,920

jobs nationwide

Salary Range

Annual Salary Distribution

$29,880$35,130$38,340$44,630$50,590
10th pct25thMedian75th90th pct

Hourly Rate Distribution

$14.37$16.89$18.43$21.46$24.32
10th pct25thMedian75th90th pct

10th Percentile

$29,880

25th Percentile

$35,130

Median

$38,340

75th Percentile

$44,630

90th Percentile

$50,590

Salary by State

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# State Median Salary vs National
1 Colorado $44,610 +16% above national
2 California $44,600 +16% above national
3 Washington $44,170 +15% above national
4 District of Columbia $44,010 +15% above national
5 Minnesota $43,890 +14% above national
6 Nevada $42,490 +11% above national
7 Massachusetts $42,250 +10% above national
8 Oregon $41,870 +9% above national
9 Utah $41,600 +9% above national
10 Maine $40,020 +4% above national
11 New York $39,780 +4% above national
12 New Jersey $39,710 +4% above national
13 Illinois $39,680 +3% above national
14 Vermont $39,600 +3% above national
15 Missouri $39,520 +3% above national
16 Alaska $39,170 +2% above national
17 Oklahoma $39,090 +2% above national
18 Montana $38,780 +1% above national
19 New Hampshire $38,620 +1% above national
20 Rhode Island $38,420 same as national
21 Virginia $38,380 same as national
22 North Carolina $38,260 same as national
23 Wyoming $38,230 same as national
24 Maryland $38,010 1% below national
25 Iowa $37,730 2% below national
26 Ohio $37,680 2% below national
27 Pennsylvania $37,590 2% below national
28 Delaware $37,560 2% below national
29 Hawaii $37,480 2% below national
30 Indiana $37,470 2% below national
31 Idaho $37,360 3% below national
32 Texas $37,310 3% below national
33 West Virginia $37,260 3% below national
34 Arizona $37,220 3% below national
35 Wisconsin $37,170 3% below national
36 Georgia $37,140 3% below national
37 Michigan $37,130 3% below national
38 New Mexico $36,790 4% below national
39 Florida $36,760 4% below national
40 Tennessee $36,690 4% below national
41 North Dakota $36,400 5% below national
42 Kentucky $36,350 5% below national
43 Kansas $35,520 7% below national
44 Arkansas $35,430 8% below national
45 South Carolina $35,360 8% below national
46 Mississippi $34,930 9% below national
47 South Dakota $33,400 13% below national
48 Virgin Islands $32,870 14% below national
49 Alabama $31,870 17% below national
50 Nebraska $29,570 23% below national
51 Louisiana $29,520 23% below national
52 Guam $24,960 35% below national
53 Puerto Rico $22,010 43% below national

Salary by Metro Area

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# Metro Area Median Salary vs National
1 San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA $52,310 +36% above national
2 Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA $49,090 +28% above national
3 Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT $48,770 +27% above national
4 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA $47,490 +24% above national
5 Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT $47,290 +23% above national
6 Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA $46,810 +22% above national
7 North Coast Region of California nonmetropolitan area $46,460 +21% above national
8 Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA $45,900 +20% above national
9 Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO $45,840 +20% above national
10 Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI $45,790 +19% above national
11 Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV $45,780 +19% above national
12 Napa, CA $44,720 +17% above national
13 Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA $44,680 +17% above national
14 San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA $44,350 +16% above national
15 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA $44,080 +15% above national
16 Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA $43,860 +14% above national
17 Modesto, CA $43,620 +14% above national
18 Fresno, CA $43,590 +14% above national
19 Bellingham, WA $43,030 +12% above national
20 Duluth, MN-WI $42,920 +12% above national
21 Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV $42,890 +12% above national
22 Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH $42,560 +11% above national
23 Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA $42,550 +11% above national
24 New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ $42,230 +10% above national
25 Cleveland, OH $41,910 +9% above national
26 Eastern Oregon nonmetropolitan area $41,870 +9% above national
27 San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA $41,760 +9% above national
28 Akron, OH $41,640 +9% above national
29 Salt Lake City-Murray, UT $41,600 +9% above national
30 New Haven, CT $41,540 +8% above national
31 Bakersfield-Delano, CA $41,530 +8% above national
32 Chico, CA $41,530 +8% above national
33 Stockton-Lodi, CA $41,370 +8% above national
34 Redding, CA $41,160 +7% above national
35 Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA $41,140 +7% above national
36 Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN $41,020 +7% above national
37 Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA $40,930 +7% above national
38 Richmond, VA $40,540 +6% above national
39 Visalia, CA $40,540 +6% above national
40 East Central Illinois nonmetropolitan area $40,320 +5% above national
41 St. Cloud, MN $40,310 +5% above national
42 Worcester, MA $40,250 +5% above national
43 Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC $40,230 +5% above national
44 Springfield, MO $40,230 +5% above national
45 Salem, OR $40,210 +5% above national
46 Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI $40,140 +5% above national
47 Winchester, VA-WV $40,120 +5% above national
48 Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN $40,020 +4% above national
49 Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA $39,990 +4% above national
50 Anchorage, AK $39,910 +4% above national
51 Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX $39,910 +4% above national
52 St. Louis, MO-IL $39,830 +4% above national
53 Kansas City, MO-KS $39,710 +4% above national
54 Medford, OR $39,660 +3% above national
55 Trenton-Princeton, NJ $39,650 +3% above national
56 Ogden, UT $39,570 +3% above national
57 Iowa City, IA $39,540 +3% above national
58 Joplin, MO-KS $39,520 +3% above national
59 Madison, WI $39,520 +3% above national
60 Wenatchee-East Wenatchee, WA $39,510 +3% above national
61 Santa Fe, NM $39,300 +3% above national
62 Waterbury-Shelton, CT $39,300 +3% above national
63 Durham-Chapel Hill, NC $39,240 +2% above national
64 Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY $39,240 +2% above national
65 North Valley-Northern Mountains Region of California nonmetropolitan area $39,220 +2% above national
66 Southeast Oklahoma nonmetropolitan area $39,120 +2% above national
67 North Florida nonmetropolitan area $39,110 +2% above national
68 Tulsa, OK $39,090 +2% above national
69 Colorado Springs, CO $38,970 +2% above national
70 Odessa, TX $38,890 +1% above national
71 Reno, NV $38,870 +1% above national
72 Springfield, MA $38,870 +1% above national
73 Providence-Warwick, RI-MA $38,820 +1% above national
74 Lexington-Fayette, KY $38,700 +1% above national
75 Twin Falls, ID $38,670 +1% above national
76 San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX $38,650 +1% above national
77 Manchester-Nashua, NH $38,620 +1% above national
78 Charlottesville, VA $38,570 +1% above national
79 Kennewick-Richland, WA $38,560 +1% above national
80 Charleston-North Charleston, SC $38,500 same as national
81 Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ $38,490 same as national
82 Jackson, TN $38,470 same as national
83 Columbia, MO $38,450 same as national
84 Raleigh-Cary, NC $38,430 same as national
85 Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX $38,360 same as national
86 Hawaii / Kauai nonmetropolitan area $38,350 same as national
87 Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA $38,340 same as national
88 Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD $38,330 same as national
89 Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN $38,270 same as national
90 Greensboro-High Point, NC $38,260 same as national
91 Casper, WY $38,230 same as national
92 Racine-Mount Pleasant, WI $38,220 same as national
93 Logan, UT-ID $38,190 same as national
94 Spartanburg, SC $38,150 same as national
95 Rockford, IL $38,130 1% below national
96 Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD $38,010 1% below national
97 Columbus, OH $37,990 1% below national
98 Maryland nonmetropolitan area $37,980 1% below national
99 Pittsburgh, PA $37,940 1% below national
100 Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC $37,920 1% below national
101 Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN $37,910 1% below national
102 Northwest Iowa nonmetropolitan area $37,910 1% below national
103 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX $37,860 1% below national
104 Asheville, NC $37,850 1% below national
105 Topeka, KS $37,850 1% below national
106 Albuquerque, NM $37,830 1% below national
107 Cedar Rapids, IA $37,810 1% below national
108 Northwest Minnesota nonmetropolitan area $37,800 1% below national
109 Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ $37,790 1% below national
110 Lansing-East Lansing, MI $37,780 1% below national
111 Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL $37,710 2% below national
112 La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN $37,660 2% below national
113 Southwest Iowa nonmetropolitan area $37,640 2% below national
114 Upper Peninsula of Michigan nonmetropolitan area $37,610 2% below national
115 Kalamazoo-Portage, MI $37,600 2% below national
116 Oklahoma City, OK $37,580 2% below national
117 Peoria, IL $37,570 2% below national
118 Eugene-Springfield, OR $37,510 2% below national
119 Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL $37,490 2% below national
120 Eastern Washington nonmetropolitan area $37,490 2% below national
121 Urban Honolulu, HI $37,480 2% below national
122 Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY $37,460 2% below national
123 Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL $37,440 2% below national
124 Western North Carolina nonmetropolitan area $37,440 2% below national
125 Central New Hampshire nonmetropolitan area $37,430 2% below national
126 Gainesville, FL $37,400 2% below national
127 Boise City, ID $37,360 3% below national
128 Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI $37,340 3% below national
129 Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL $37,320 3% below national
130 Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH $37,290 3% below national
131 Southeast Missouri nonmetropolitan area $37,290 3% below national
132 Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA $37,200 3% below national
133 Yakima, WA $37,200 3% below national
134 Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL $37,170 3% below national
135 Central Kentucky nonmetropolitan area $37,090 3% below national
136 Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA $37,060 3% below national
137 Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH $37,050 3% below national
138 Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL $37,050 3% below national
139 Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY $37,020 3% below national
140 Birmingham, AL $37,020 3% below national
141 Naples-Marco Island, FL $37,010 3% below national
142 South Central Wisconsin nonmetropolitan area $36,940 4% below national
143 Fayetteville, NC $36,910 4% below national
144 Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL $36,910 4% below national
145 South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI $36,860 4% below national
146 Abilene, TX $36,850 4% below national
147 Salinas, CA $36,820 4% below national
148 Lincoln, NE $36,730 4% below national
149 Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC $36,720 4% below national
150 Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL $36,710 4% below national
151 Ann Arbor, MI $36,550 5% below national
152 Valdosta, GA $36,550 5% below national
153 Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR $36,540 5% below national
154 Saginaw, MI $36,540 5% below national
155 Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN $36,510 5% below national
156 El Paso, TX $36,480 5% below national
157 Syracuse, NY $36,480 5% below national
158 Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR $36,440 5% below national
159 Southwest Virginia nonmetropolitan area $36,380 5% below national
160 West Kentucky nonmetropolitan area $36,350 5% below national
161 Wilmington, NC $36,340 5% below national
162 Jackson, MS $36,330 5% below national
163 Coast Oregon nonmetropolitan area $36,320 5% below national
164 Northeastern Pennsylvania nonmetropolitan area $36,310 5% below national
165 Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA $36,300 5% below national
166 Southwest New York nonmetropolitan area $36,300 5% below national
167 Champaign-Urbana, IL $36,290 5% below national
168 Dubuque, IA $36,290 5% below national
169 Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL $36,280 5% below national
170 Springfield, IL $36,250 5% below national
171 Rochester, NY $36,240 5% below national
172 Fort Wayne, IN $36,230 6% below national
173 Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC $36,110 6% below national
174 Toledo, OH $36,110 6% below national
175 Winston-Salem, NC $36,110 6% below national
176 Tucson, AZ $36,030 6% below national
177 North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL $36,010 6% below national
178 Bloomington, IN $35,980 6% below national
179 Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX $35,960 6% below national
180 Central East New York nonmetropolitan area $35,960 6% below national
181 Ocala, FL $35,900 6% below national
182 Capital/Northern New York nonmetropolitan area $35,880 6% below national
183 Eastern North Carolina nonmetropolitan area $35,880 6% below national
184 Eastern Ohio nonmetropolitan area $35,860 6% below national
185 Greenville, NC $35,840 7% below national
186 Port St. Lucie, FL $35,840 7% below national
187 Erie, PA $35,800 7% below national
188 Canton-Massillon, OH $35,760 7% below national
189 Memphis, TN-MS-AR $35,730 7% below national
190 Binghamton, NY $35,720 7% below national
191 Southside Virginia nonmetropolitan area $35,620 7% below national
192 Michigan City-La Porte, IN $35,610 7% below national
193 North Georgia nonmetropolitan area $35,580 7% below national
194 Northwestern South Carolina nonmetropolitan area $35,560 7% below national
195 Burlington, NC $35,520 7% below national
196 Appleton, WI $35,490 7% below national
197 Lubbock, TX $35,400 8% below national
198 Florence, SC $35,360 8% below national
199 Lancaster, PA $35,360 8% below national
200 Bowling Green, KY $35,350 8% below national
201 Longview, TX $35,350 8% below national
202 Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT $35,350 8% below national
203 Salisbury, MD $35,340 8% below national
204 Waco, TX $35,240 8% below national
205 Sussex Delaware nonmetropolitan area $35,200 8% below national
206 Northern Indiana nonmetropolitan area $35,180 8% below national
207 Northeastern Wisconsin nonmetropolitan area $35,180 8% below national
208 Evansville, IN $35,160 8% below national
209 Wichita, KS $35,130 8% below national
210 Knoxville, TN $35,100 8% below national
211 Jacksonville, FL $35,080 9% below national
212 South Illinois nonmetropolitan area $35,080 9% below national
213 Staunton-Stuarts Draft, VA $35,020 9% below national
214 Corpus Christi, TX $35,000 9% below national
215 South Central Kentucky nonmetropolitan area $35,000 9% below national
216 West Central Illinois nonmetropolitan area $34,990 9% below national
217 Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI $34,920 9% below national
218 Savannah, GA $34,920 9% below national
219 Sioux Falls, SD-MN $34,780 9% below national
220 Southern Ohio nonmetropolitan area $34,770 9% below national
221 Chattanooga, TN-GA $34,740 9% below national
222 Southeast Iowa nonmetropolitan area $34,730 9% below national
223 Tyler, TX $34,700 9% below national
224 Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC $34,600 10% below national
225 Gulfport-Biloxi, MS $34,600 10% below national
226 Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA $34,600 10% below national
227 Southern Michigan nonmetropolitan area $34,600 10% below national
228 South Central Tennessee nonmetropolitan area $34,590 10% below national
229 Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL $34,540 10% below national
230 Youngstown-Warren, OH $34,500 10% below national
231 Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA $34,460 10% below national
232 Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA $34,390 10% below national
233 Northeast Iowa nonmetropolitan area $34,380 10% below national
234 Roanoke, VA $34,350 10% below national
235 York-Hanover, PA $34,350 10% below national
236 Dover, DE $34,260 11% below national
237 Reading, PA $34,160 11% below national
238 Southern Indiana nonmetropolitan area $34,040 11% below national
239 Flint, MI $33,930 12% below national
240 West Northwestern Ohio nonmetropolitan area $33,860 12% below national
241 Panama City-Panama City Beach, FL $33,780 12% below national
242 Omaha, NE-IA $33,720 12% below national
243 Utica-Rome, NY $33,670 12% below national
244 Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC $33,310 13% below national
245 Terre Haute, IN $33,290 13% below national
246 Middle Georgia nonmetropolitan area $33,280 13% below national
247 Central Missouri nonmetropolitan area $33,220 13% below national
248 Punta Gorda, FL $33,200 13% below national
249 Macon-Bibb County, GA $32,920 14% below national
250 Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV $32,890 14% below national
251 Green Bay, WI $32,780 15% below national
252 Central Pennsylvania nonmetropolitan area $32,780 15% below national
253 Mid Michigan nonmetropolitan area $32,760 15% below national
254 Altoona, PA $32,480 15% below national
255 Upper East Mississippi nonmetropolitan area $32,020 16% below national
256 Rome, GA $31,960 17% below national
257 East Kentucky nonmetropolitan area $31,540 18% below national
258 Huntsville, AL $31,340 18% below national
259 Elmira, NY $31,200 19% below national
260 Watertown-Fort Drum, NY $31,200 19% below national
261 Southwestern Pennsylvania nonmetropolitan area $31,150 19% below national
262 Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA $31,050 19% below national
263 Charleston, WV $31,020 19% below national
264 Baton Rouge, LA $30,940 19% below national
265 North Northeastern Ohio nonmetropolitan area (noncontiguous) $30,930 19% below national
266 McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX $30,780 20% below national
267 Sioux City, IA-NE-SD $30,620 20% below national
268 New Orleans-Metairie, LA $30,540 20% below national
269 Laredo, TX $30,490 20% below national
270 Northwestern Pennsylvania nonmetropolitan area $30,460 21% below national
271 Mobile, AL $30,430 21% below national
272 Kansas nonmetropolitan area $30,340 21% below national
273 Tallahassee, FL $30,160 21% below national
274 Columbia, SC $30,140 21% below national
275 West Delta Mississippi nonmetropolitan area $29,900 22% below national
276 Amarillo, TX $29,790 22% below national
277 College Station-Bryan, TX $29,740 22% below national
278 Johnson City, TN $29,620 23% below national
279 Lafayette, LA $29,590 23% below national
280 Shreveport-Bossier City, LA $29,510 23% below national
281 Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA $29,270 24% below national
282 Slidell-Mandeville-Covington, LA $29,270 24% below national
283 North Missouri nonmetropolitan area $29,120 24% below national
284 Brownsville-Harlingen, TX $28,900 25% below national
285 Monroe, LA $28,400 26% below national
286 Montgomery, AL $28,240 26% below national
287 South Georgia nonmetropolitan area $28,190 26% below national
288 Columbus, GA-AL $28,140 27% below national
289 Northeast Nebraska nonmetropolitan area $27,950 27% below national
290 South Nebraska nonmetropolitan area $27,950 27% below national
291 Lake Charles, LA $27,110 29% below national
292 Tuscaloosa, AL $26,140 32% below national
293 Lower East Mississippi nonmetropolitan area $26,090 32% below national
294 East Georgia nonmetropolitan area $25,610 33% below national
295 Central North Carolina nonmetropolitan area $22,640 41% below national
296 San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR $22,310 42% below national
297 Ponce, PR $21,210 45% below national
298 Arecibo, PR $20,870 46% below national
299 Mayaguez, PR $20,820 46% below national
300 Aguadilla, PR $20,450 47% below national

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