$68,260estimated top of the range · middle $35,000 / yr
AI augments this role
Moving Company Workers in the United States earn a median of $35,000 a year. Pay starts near $25,000. The top of the range is estimated at $68,260. The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish a separate wage series for this exact title, so this figure is derived from the closest occupation it does track and is labelled an estimate.
Source: PayCrunch estimate. Last checked 9 September 2026.
Entry level
$25,000
Top-end estimate
$68,260
Education
High school diploma
Wages — PayCrunch estimate. The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish a separate wage series for Moving Company Worker; figures are derived from the closest occupation it does track and are labelled as estimates. AI-impact rating is PayCrunch's editorial assessment. Updated September 2026.
🆕 New & Trending AI Tools for Moving Company WorkerReviewed September 2026
We track new AI-tool launches every week and refresh this list — here’s what’s gaining traction for Moving Company Worker work right now.
Numeo AINEWPaid / see site
AI dispatch platform that matches loads and plans routes for trucking.
How a Moving Company Worker uses it: let AI find better loads and build the most efficient route/schedule
DAT iQNEWPaid / see site
Freight market intelligence with AI rate forecasting and lane analytics.
How a Moving Company Worker uses it: price a load right and pick profitable lanes with live market data
NetradyneNEWFleet / see site
AI-powered dashcam that coaches driving and rewards safe behavior.
How a Moving Company Worker uses it: get instant in-cab coaching and build a safety record that protects your CDL
NotebookLMNEWFree / $7.99 mo
Google tool that answers questions grounded only in the documents you give it — with citations.
How a Moving Company Worker uses it: load your own manuals, policies, or PDFs and ask questions that stay accurate to the source
Motive~$89/vehicle mo
Driver app with AI safety alerts, fuel and route insights (formerly KeepTruckin).
How a Moving Company Worker uses it: get real-time safety and fuel coaching and cut idle time on the road
Samsara~$99/vehicle mo
Connected-fleet platform with AI dash cams, routing, and maintenance alerts.
How a Moving Company Worker uses it: use AI dashcam coaching and predictive maintenance to stay safe and avoid breakdowns
Route4MePaid / see site
Route optimization that sequences multi-stop trips across 200+ variables.
How a Moving Company Worker uses it: turn a list of stops into the fastest, fuel-smart route in seconds
ChatGPTFree / $20 mo
The most-used AI assistant — writing, analysis, research, and images from a plain-language chat.
How a Moving Company Worker uses it: draft emails and documents, summarize long files, and get instant answers to on-the-job questions
ClaudeFree / $20 mo
AI assistant known for careful writing, long-document analysis, and coding.
How a Moving Company Worker uses it: analyze big reports or spreadsheets and turn messy notes into clean, finished writing
A moving company worker on a local job is part of a truck crew. The truck is at the curb, the customer is anxious, and the home has to be empty of the agreed furniture and boxes before you drive to the next address and put it all back in a sensible order. You lift, you carry, you pad, you drive if that is your role, and you speak to the customer like a guest who is also on a clock. The good crews make a hard day look orderly. The bad crews make the customer regret the phone call that booked them.
The truck at the curb
The morning starts before the first sofa. You meet the crew, you check that the truck has pads, dollies, straps, and the paperwork for that address, and you confirm who is driving. Traffic and parking are part of the job on a local move. A building with a tight elevator or a walk-up changes the whole pace, and the person who pretended it would be easy will hear about it from the customer and from the dispatcher. Look at the access before you promise a finish time you cannot keep. Honesty at the curb saves the afternoon.
Inside the home you are in someone else's life. Shoes, floors, doorways, and pets are not obstacles to bully through. You ask where to start, you protect floors and walls the way the company trained you, and you treat fragile pieces as labeled rather than as a surprise you discover by breaking them. The customer will hover. Let them. Explain what you are taking next. A running account reduces the fear that something vanished into the truck. Crews that go silent while they rush create complaints even when nothing is actually lost.
The physical work is real and repetitive. Furniture, boxed rooms, and the odd object that does not fit a category all have to reach the truck without a scene. You use dollies and teamwork because hero lifting is how people get hurt and how pieces get dropped. Say when a piece needs another person. Say when a staircase is a bad idea for a given object and offer the alternative the lead agrees to. Pride that refuses help is a liability on a crew. So is carelessness that leaves the next person to carry your shortcut.
Loading is a skill, not a shove. The truck has to travel. Pieces need to sit so they do not shift, and the crew needs to know what must come off first at the destination. A local move may be short, and a short drive still punishes a sloppy load. Watch the lead. Copy the order. If you are the lead, explain the order out loud so a new helper does not have to guess. The truck door closes on a plan, not on a pile.
From the walk-through to the last piece
A proper local move begins before the first lift. Someone, often the lead or a salesperson off the truck, has walked the home or at least listed what is going. Your crew should know the scope before you start: which rooms, which large pieces, what stays, what the customer will move in their own car. Surprises still happen. A piece that was "not going" is suddenly going. Handle the change by telling the lead and, if it affects time or price, by letting the customer hear the consequence before you load it. Quietly absorbing extra work feels polite and then becomes a dispute about the bill.
The drive between addresses is part of the service. Secure the load, drive like someone else's furniture is behind you, and arrive able to work. At the destination you reverse the morning: protect the new place, place furniture where the customer asked, and reassemble only what the company agreed to reassemble. Do not freelance electrical or plumbing work because a customer points at a lamp or a washer. Place the item. Let the right trade do the rest. Unload until the truck is actually empty, then walk the home with the customer. That walk is where missing pieces and damaged corners get named while everyone is still there.
Paper closes the job. A bill of lading or a work order, a note of damage the customer claims, signatures, and the condition you observed all matter later when someone calls the office. Write what is true. A crew that shrugs at paperwork leaves the company, and sometimes themselves, exposed. If something broke, say so to the lead the same day. Hiding damage is how a small crack becomes an accusation that the whole crew is dishonest. Customers can forgive an accident they were told about. They rarely forgive a discovery they made alone after you left.
Local work means you may finish one move and start another the same day, or you may spend the whole day on a single large home. Pace yourself so the second job is still careful. Hydrate, use the equipment, and speak up if the schedule the dispatcher built is fantasy. Dispatchers are not in the stairwell. They need a truthful report of how long the access really took. Crews that inflate or hide time teach the office to distrust them. Crews that report plainly get schedules a human can survive.
How a company builds tomorrow's crew
Hiring is practical and often fast. The company needs people who will show up early, pass a straightforward conversation about availability, and handle a physical day without disappearing at lunch. Some outfits want warehouse experience, furniture experience, or any job that proved you finish hard work. A driver's licence matters if you will drive, and the licence has to cover the truck they assign. Ask which licence the truck requires instead of assuming every local truck is the same. A helper who cannot drive is still hireable on many crews. A driver who treats the licence as a suggestion will not stay on the roster.
The interview may be a short talk and a chance to see the warehouse or the truck. They are judging punctuality, how you speak about customers, and whether you can take direction. Be honest about what you have lifted and what you have not. Claiming you can lead a crew on day one, when you have never loaded a truck, wastes everyone's morning. Say you want to learn the company's way. Ask about pay, about how tips are handled, about cancellation days when a job vanishes, and about whether you are an employee. Those answers matter more than a motivational speech. A company that will not explain pay before you lift is a company to be careful with.
There is no universal professional licence for a moving helper the way some trades have a state board card. The driver's licence, when driving is your role, is the state document that proves you may drive the vehicle it covers. Beyond that, the company trains you in how they pad, how they load, and how they want customers addressed. Take that training seriously even if you have moved friends for free. A friend's apartment and a paying customer's home are different kinds of responsibility. Insurance, claims, and the company's reputation sit on the crew's habits. Your private shortcuts do not override their rules.
Helper, driver, and the person the customer trusts
Most people start as helpers. You carry, you pad, you learn how the lead wants the truck packed, and you watch how a good lead talks to a worried customer. Do that cleanly and you get called back. Moving companies live on a list of people who answer the phone in the morning. Reliability is the promotion that comes before any title. A helper who is strong and absent is less useful than a helper who is steady and careful. Show up when you said you would. Call early if you cannot. The industry is smaller than it looks, and dispatchers remember.
Driving is the next responsibility for people who want it and who hold the right licence. You are responsible for the truck, the load, the route, and the crew's safety on the road. Local driving is still real driving: tight streets, impatient traffic, and a vehicle that does not handle like a car. Take it when you are ready, not when you are flattered. Some drivers stay drivers because they like the mix of road and crew. Some become leads who run the job on site, assign tasks, handle the walk-through with the customer, and deal with the office when the scope changes. The lead is the person the customer trusts and the person the helper watches. That trust is earned by calm decisions, not by volume.
Later paths include dispatcher, warehouse lead, or a role in sales estimating local jobs. Each of those is a different day. Dispatch is phones, schedules, and crews who need a plan that fits real buildings. Estimating is walking a home and describing the job accurately enough that the crew avoids an ambush. Ownership of a small company is a further jump: trucks, insurance, hiring, and slow weeks that still have payments due. Do not leap to ownership because you are fast on the truck. Leap, if you ever do, because you can run the paperwork and still treat customers fairly. Many excellent careers stay on the crew. A trusted lead with steady work is a real occupation, not a waiting room.
Estimates set apart from the laborer series
PayCrunch estimates are the right label here. The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish a separate wage series for this exact title. The Bureau does publish a laborer series that is sometimes used for movers, and those laborer dollars differ from the estimates for a moving company worker. Do not mix the two. Entry in these estimates is $25,000. The median estimate is $35,000. The estimated top is $68,260. From entry to the median is $10,000. From the median to the estimated top is $33,260. No state figure belongs beside these dollars, because the estimates are not a state wage table.
Read $25,000 as the entry end for someone new on a crew, still learning the company's pace. Read $35,000 as the middle of this estimate for a working crew member with a reliable record. Read $68,260 as the estimated top, the high end for people whose responsibility has grown: a lead, a skilled driver the company depends on, or a scarce combination of customer trust and consistently full weeks. The $10,000 step from entry to median is real and should be tied to showing up, careful work, and a role the dispatcher can count on. The further $33,260 from the median to the top is a larger claim. It fits a conversation about responsibility, not a conversation about your first week on the truck.
Tips, overtime, and slow seasons change what you take home, and they are not extra statistics you should invent. Ask the company how each one works, then keep the base conversation on $25,000, $35,000, and $68,260. If a recruiter quotes a laborer-series figure as if it were this title, say that those dollars differ and return to the PayCrunch estimates. If someone quotes a number above $68,260, it sits outside this estimate. If they quote a full-time crew wage far under $25,000, name the entry estimate and ask what the week actually contains. These three numbers are the whole public benchmark this title gets here.
A rate talk with the dispatcher
Talk pay when you are calm and specific, not in a doorway at the end of a brutal unload. Bring what you do: helper, driver, or lead; how often you are called; whether you train new people; whether customers ask for you again. A new helper can point at $25,000 and at the $10,000 step toward $35,000 once the crew trusts them unsupervised on ordinary pieces. A steady crew member can point at $35,000 and describe the difference between a body on the truck and a person the lead does not have to recheck. A lead or a driver the schedule depends on can discuss the path toward the estimated top of $68,260, and should be ready to say which duties match that height.
Ask how cancelled jobs are paid, how tips are split if they are pooled, and whether extra hours are handled in a way you can see on the stub. Those rules can matter as much as the base. Compare them without making up dollar amounts the estimate does not list. Then put the base back on the table. A company that pays near the median of $35,000, explains the stub, and keeps you working is often a better deal than a promised number near $68,260 that depends on a fantasy schedule. The estimated top is a high end, not a mood.
Keep the laborer series out of your sentence except to refuse the mix-up. The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish a separate wage series for this exact title, which is why these are PayCrunch estimates: $25,000, $35,000, and $68,260. You are negotiating a truck crew on a local move. Name the role, name one of those figures, and name the habit you want paid for: showing up, protecting the home, loading so the drive is safe, and telling the truth when the job changes. That is the work. The curb will still be there in the morning. The rate should be as plain as the address on the work order.
The top of Moving Company Worker pay — and how to get there with AI
$68,260top-end estimate for Moving Company Worker
PayCrunch estimate - derived from the closest occupation BLS tracks (Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand, 53-7062). This figure is PayCrunch’s estimate, not a Bureau of Labor Statistics published wage for this exact title.
And the role it leads to — Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators — reaches $118,140 in Hawaii.
$25,000entry$35,000middle$68,260top end
A moving company worker who can lift and load competes with everyone who can lift and load; the ones at the top of this range do one narrow thing, crating, rigging, machinery placement or hazardous loads, that a crew of general helpers is not allowed to touch.
Reading the work order, protecting what sits in storage, and getting freight into a container or onto a truck is the common core of this work, and it prices accordingly. The exceptions are the loads that carry risk: a laboratory instrument, a piano, a safe, a machine that must be placed to a tolerance, anything with a hazardous classification. Those jobs get quoted differently because the pool of people who can do them is small. Getting into that pool is a matter of deliberate choice, training and paperwork rather than strength, and the paperwork part is where most people stop.
Your playbook, by where you are now
Just startingChase the awkward jobs
Put your hand up for the loads the rest of the crew groans at: safes, pianos, laboratory equipment, anything already crated.
Learn to build a crate that survives a container journey, and photograph every one you make.
Read the special handling notes on the work order and ask what an item is worth before you get under it.
Keep the storage areas genuinely protected, because high-value contracts are lost on damage claims rather than on speed.
What proves it: A photographic record of specialty items you packed, crated and delivered undamaged.
Realistic span: your first two years
A few years inCollect the tickets that fence the work off
Certify on the equipment your chosen specialty needs, forklift and power lift first, then rigging if the company moves machinery.
Take hazardous materials handling training if the company carries any, since it immediately narrows who may be assigned the load.
Learn the condition report and claim paperwork in whatever data entry software the office runs, so your jobs never generate an argument.
Record in Microsoft Excel what each specialty job billed against the hours it took, which is the basis for asking to be paid differently.
Get onto the long-distance and container loads, where load planning matters more than pace.
What proves it: A stack of certifications no general helper on the crew holds.
Realistic span: years two through six
ExperiencedRun the specialty line
Take the survey and the estimate for specialty jobs, so pricing stops depending on a salesperson's guess.
Write the handling procedure for each item class and train the crew that assists you from it.
Have Claude turn your handling notes into a customer-facing description of what the specialty service covers, then correct every technical detail.
Move toward full-time powered equipment operation, which is the common step beyond this work.
Look at where crews are genuinely scarce, Alaska above other states, and cost a season there honestly before deciding.
What proves it: A specialty service the company quotes by name, with you as the person who performs it.
Realistic span: year seven and up
The next 90 days
Inside ninety days, pick one specialty and start being the person who takes it. Tell your dispatcher plainly which loads you want: the crated instruments, the machinery placements, the hazardous consignments, whichever your company actually carries. Then close the gap that keeps you off them. Find out which certification or training the company requires, what it costs, and whether they will fund it. Photograph and document every one of those jobs you do get. Three months of that produces something a general crew member never has, which is a documented reason to be assigned the loads that are quoted at a different rate.
Wage figures: PayCrunch estimate. The playbook is PayCrunch editorial guidance, not a guarantee of pay or placement.
Every figure is the national median from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (OEWS) shown on that role’s own page.
Never used AI before? Start here (2 minutes).
Learn the estimating tools that turn a mover into a manager — start with Yembo. Yembo runs an AI video survey: the customer films their home on their phone, and the tool builds an itemized inventory and cubic-footage estimate automatically. Ask your company to let you run surveys, or learn the workflow yourself — the person who can produce fast, accurate estimates is the person who gets promoted off the truck and into salary.
For everything else, free ChatGPT and Google Gemini will teach you the business: how estimates, tariffs, and DOT rules work; how to write customer quotes and review replies; how dispatch schedules trucks. Keep real customer names, addresses, and inventory inside your company's approved systems, not in a public AI chat.
The one rule, forever: Moving is regulated: interstate moves require FMCSA/DOT operating authority, and estimates carry legal weight — a binding estimate you generate from an AI video survey must still be verified against the real inventory, or you owe the difference. Never present an AI estimate as final without confirming access, stairs, and inventory. On the floor, respect lifting limits and equipment safety no matter how tight dispatch has the schedule; a fast quote is worthless if someone gets hurt filling it.
The plays — exact steps, exact prompts
Do these in order. Each one is copy-paste ready. You do not need to know anything about AI going in.
1
Become the estimator with AI video surveys
Why this pays: Estimators earn more than laborers and are harder to replace. Master AI video-survey estimating and you make yourself the person who prices the jobs — a salaried role that's the first big jump past the median.
YemboSmartMovingChatGPT
1
Learn Yembo's AI video-survey workflow: how it builds the inventory and cube estimate, and how to review and correct it.
2
Use ChatGPT to master the fundamentals estimators need.
Copy-paste this prompt
Teach me how residential moving estimates work: cubic feet vs weight, how crew size and hours are calculated, what surcharges apply (stairs, long carry, shuttle, bulky items), and the difference between binding, non-binding, and not-to-exceed estimates under US moving rules. Give me a checklist to sanity-check any estimate before I send it.
General education — always verify estimates against the actual inventory and your company's tariff, and follow FMCSA rules on estimate types.
3
Volunteer to run surveys and quotes; accuracy is what makes you indispensable.
What you'll haveThe estimating skill that promotes you off the truck into a salaried, higher-paid role.
2
Run dispatch and scheduling like a pro
Why this pays: A foreman/dispatcher who keeps trucks and crews full and on-time is the operational core of a moving company — a leadership role with leadership pay.
SmartMovingWorkizChatGPT
1
Learn a moving CRM/dispatch system (SmartMoving or Workiz): scheduling trucks, assigning crews, sequencing jobs by geography.
2
Use ChatGPT to build SOPs and daily dispatch checklists that make you the reliable one.
Copy-paste this prompt
Write a daily dispatch checklist and a crew-briefing template for a residential moving company: confirming jobs, matching crew size to the estimate, truck and equipment assignments, route order, and customer communication touchpoints. Practical and step-by-step.
Adapt to your company's real systems; keep customer data in the company CRM, not the AI chat.
3
Propose scheduling improvements that cut drive time and overtime — measurable wins get you promoted.
What you'll haveThe dispatch competence that makes you foreman material and raises your pay grade.
3
Win the reviews and sales that grow the company (and your bonus)
Why this pays: Moving is a reputation and lead-gen business; the worker who drives five-star reviews and helps close estimates becomes tied to revenue — the path to commission and profit-share.
ChatGPTNiceJobGoogle Business Profile
1
Use ChatGPT to script the post-move review ask and to draft thoughtful replies to every online review.
Copy-paste this prompt
Write a friendly post-move text asking a happy customer for a Google review, plus 3 reply templates for reviews (5-star thank-you, a 3-star with a fixable complaint, and a 1-star that stays professional and offers to make it right). For a residential moving company.
Never fake or incentivize reviews against platform rules; ask real customers after real moves.
2
Learn to help convert estimates into booked jobs with a clear, fast, professional quote — the sales skill that earns commission.
What you'll haveA measurable link between you and revenue — the basis for commission, bonus, and advancement.
4
Master the compliance that lets you (eventually) own
Why this pays: The barrier between crew member and owner is know-how: licensing, insurance, tariffs, DOT authority. Learn it and you can start your own company — where the real top-of-range money is.
PerplexityChatGPTFMCSA resources
1
Use Perplexity to research exactly what it takes to operate legally in your state and interstate.
Copy-paste this prompt
Explain what's required to legally start a residential moving company in [my state]: local vs interstate authority, USDOT/MC numbers, insurance types and minimums, whether a household-goods license is required, and the main FMCSA rules on estimates and consumer disclosures. Cite official sources.
Regulations are strict and vary — verify everything against official FMCSA and state sources and consult a professional before operating.
2
Have ChatGPT help you build a simple business plan and startup checklist.
What you'll haveThe regulatory and business knowledge that turns an experienced mover into a legitimate owner.
5
Start lean as an owner-operator and let AI run the back office
Why this pays: An owner keeps the profit on every job, not a wage. Even a small two-truck operation clears well past the $68,260 top of the range — AI is the office staff you don't yet have to hire.
SmartMovingChatGPTCanva
1
Launch with one truck and a crew; use SmartMoving (or Workiz) for CRM, estimates, and dispatch, and Yembo for surveys.
2
Use ChatGPT and Canva to build your brand, website copy, and ad creative, and draft quotes, emails, and customer FAQs.
Copy-paste this prompt
Write the website copy and a Google Business Profile description for a new local moving company called [name] in [city]. Emphasize licensed and insured, careful handling, transparent estimates, and easy booking. Include a services list and a strong CTA. Under 350 words.
State only the licensing and insurance you actually hold — moving-company claims are regulated and reviewed.
What you'll haveA lean, AI-run moving business where the profit is yours — the real route past pay at the top of the range.
Your 12-month sequence to the top of the range
How the plays above stack into a path from median pay toward the $50,000 tier.
Month 1
Learn how estimates and DOT rules work with ChatGPT; get hands-on with Yembo video surveys at your company.
Months 2-3
Take on estimating and dispatch responsibilities; drive the review process with AI-scripted asks and replies.
Months 3-6
Master a moving CRM (SmartMoving/Workiz) and research the licensing to operate on your own.
Months 6-12
Move into a foreman/estimator role, or launch lean as an owner-operator with AI running the back office.
Gear for this job
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Same live NCCCO-aligned rigger / signal-person field reference already on rigger (ASIN B0H632DHVG). This leftover page’s lede is specialise into crating, rigging, machinery placement or hazardous loads; a few years in is Certify on the equipment your chosen specialty needs, forklift and power lift first, then rigging if the company moves machinery. Field reference for leftover machinery-rigging work — not the official NCCCO handbook and not leftover FMCSA as a dump. Confirm B0H632DHVG. Live page HTTP 200, no PC_GEAR / amazon.com/dp / tag=paycrunch-20 at 2026-09-17 5:55 PM PT.
Next steps for a Moving Company Worker
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Moving Company Worker work is specific enough that a stamped 'check out these courses' block would be noise. BLS files this work as Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand (SOC 53-7062). O*NET Job Zone 2 is typical: a high-school diploma plus short vocational training, so the honest next credential is a short certificate or vocational program — not a random catalog dump.
The occupation's listed knowledge area is Production and Processing, which is what the course searches below actually query.
Moving Company Workers in this dataset list Autodesk AutoCAD among the tools in use, so a program that names that stack is a better fit than a survey course.
Coursera search for production and processing — a short certificate or vocational program that lines up with transportation, not a generic professional-development aisle.
Write a Moving Company Worker resume, or one aimed at Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators, instead of a blank template. Resume Now is a resume builder; we are not claiming a counted template set for this SOC.
A Moving Company Worker resume that names the actual tasks on this page, or the step-up title Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators, beats a blank template when you apply.
What Moving Company Workers earn by state
This page does not show a state table, and the reason is worth stating: the Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish a separate wage series for this job title, so there are no official state figures to show. Scaling the national median by a cost-of-living index would produce a number for every state, but it would be an estimate of living costs wearing a wage’s clothes, and PayCrunch would rather show you nothing than that.
What the national figures say: pay starts near $25,000, the median is $35,000, and the top of the range is $68,260. Those national figures are a PayCrunch estimate, not a Bureau of Labor Statistics published wage for this exact title.
No — the physical move is automation-proof. But AI is already replacing the slow parts of the office: in-home survey visits (Yembo does it by video), manual estimating, and dispatch guesswork. The worker who learns those AI-run functions climbs into the salaried and ownership roles; the one who only lifts stays at the wage.
How is this different from being an independent mover?
An independent mover sells their own labor per job; the company path is about climbing into estimator, foreman, and owner roles where you earn on the operation, not just your back. AI — video surveys, dispatch CRM — is what lets you learn those roles fast.
Do I really need to know DOT and FMCSA rules?
If you ever want to run jobs — especially interstate — yes, absolutely, and getting them wrong carries fines and liability. Use AI to learn the landscape in plain English, then verify against official FMCSA and state sources and a professional before you operate.
Can AI make me a better estimator than someone with 20 years' experience?
It can get you accurate fast — Yembo's AI inventory plus a solid checklist closes much of the experience gap. But you still verify every estimate against the real job; the mistakes that cost money come from access, stairs, and inventory a camera missed.
What's the fastest way to raise my pay on a crew?
Become the person who prices and schedules the work. Estimators and foremen out-earn laborers, and both skills — AI video surveys and dispatch software — can be learned in months, not years.
Methodology & sources
Salary (median, 10th, top of the range) — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS.
By state — the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ own state medians, limited to states employing at least 500 people in the occupation. No cost-of-living arithmetic is applied to a wage anywhere on this page.
The plays — PayCrunch's own step-by-step guidance using publicly available AI tools. Tool names/URLs are real and current as of August 2026; prompts written to work as-is. Verify any professional output before relying on it.