New York Public Authorities / Car Inspector
Role across New York Public Authorities
Car Inspector
Inspect and investigate for compliance with regulations, document findings, and recommend action.
2,002 people hold the Car Inspector role across 1 department in New York Public Authorities, with a median total compensation of $94,422.
- Employees
- 2,002
- Median pay
- $94,422
- Departments
- 1
- Cross-jurisdiction
- #1 of 1
Compared with the local labor market
Car Inspector pay vs. New York
Across all employers in New York, the median wage for Transportation Inspectors — about 3,720 people — is $93,420. New York Public Authorities pays a median base salary of $90,849 for this role, 3% below that figure — about the 24th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where New York Public Authorities sits in the local pay range
The bar is the range of annual wages for Transportation Inspectors across every employer in New York, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows New York Public Authorities’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Transportation Inspectors — about 24,500 people — is $92,100. New York Public Authorities’s median base salary is 1% below that national figure, about the 49th 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 New York range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 1,599 of 2,002 people in this role paid at least $25,000in base salary. The rest are part-year or part-time records, whose actual pay isn’t comparable to a full-time annual wage.
Median total compensation for this role at New York Public Authorities is $94,422, 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.