City of Charlotte / Mobility Planning Division / Transportation Planner I
Job-title file
Operate vehicles or heavy equipment safely to move people or materials, and perform routine checks.
1 employees hold this title in Mobility Planning Division. Median total compensation for the role is $77,614, below the department median of $91,076.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC area, the median wage for Social Scientists and Related Workers, All Other — about 190 people — is $90,580. Mobility Planning Division pays a median base salary of $89,901 for this role, in line with that figure — about the 48th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Social Scientists and Related Workers, All Other across every employer in the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Mobility Planning Division’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Social Scientists and Related Workers, All Other — about 37,100 people — is $101,110. Mobility Planning Division’s median base salary is 11% below that national figure, about the 36th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC range relative to the national one.
Median total compensation for this role at Mobility Planning Division is $89,901, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.
Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.
Compare departments
Transportation Planner I is held in 2 City of Charlotte departments. In Mobility Planning Division, the median of $77,614 ranks #1 of 2.
Median total compensation for the Transportation Planner I role in other City of Charlottedepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 9 jurisdictions. In City of Charlotte, the median of $88,078 ranks #4 of 9. See Transportation Planner across all of City of Charlotte →
Median total compensation for comparable Transportation Plannerroles in other jurisdictions. Titles are matched by normalized name across sources, not identical job classification, and pay is not cost-of-living adjusted. Each bar links to that jurisdiction’s page for the role.
Record list
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Transportation Planner I/Mobility Planning Division
Source-specific fields
Elina Shepard holds the role of Transportation Planner I at Mobility Planning Division within Cdot. Their status is full-time. In 2026, their total compensation was $77,614.