Tennessee / Transportation / Transportation Worker 2*
Job-title file
Operate vehicles or heavy equipment safely to move people or materials, and perform routine checks.
552 employees hold this title in Transportation. Median total compensation for the role is $56,172, below the department median of $66,690.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 552 people in this role. Even for one job title, pay differs with seniority, step, overtime, and tenure. Each bar is a pay range; the far-right bar collects the highest earners.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in Tennessee, the median wage for Highway Maintenance Workers — about 2,280 people — is $46,070. Transportation pays a median base salary of $56,172 for this role, 22% above that figure — about the 75th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Highway Maintenance Workers across every employer in Tennessee, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Transportation’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Highway Maintenance Workers — about 154,960 people — is $50,260. Transportation’s median base salary is 12% above that national figure, about the 64th 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 Tennessee range relative to the national one.
Median total compensation for this role at Transportation is $56,172, 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 jurisdictions
This role is reported in 4 jurisdictions. In Tennessee, the median of $56,172 ranks #2 of 4. See Transportation Worker across all of Tennessee →
Median total compensation for comparable Transportation Workerroles 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 Worker 2*/Transportation
Source-specific fields
Rodney Dooley is a Transportation Worker 2* at Transportation within Reg 1 Floating Mtnce - Knox. They work full-time. 2026 total compensation came to $54,192.