DETAILED OCCUPATION DATA

Operate industrial trucks or tractors equipped to move materials around a warehouse, storage yard, factory, construction site, or similar location. Excludes ?Logging Equipment Operators? (45-4022).

Occupational Employment Statistics(OES) Wage Data
Wages Updated to First Quarter, 2020

					Percentiles
Geography	Employment	Emp SE*	Mean	Mean SE*	10th	25th	Median	75th	90th
Minnesota	8,430	455	$22.31/hr	$0.54/hr	$15.56/hr	$17.61/hr	$21.15/hr	$25.54/hr	$33.22/hr
U S	629,270	6,293	$18.65/hr	$0.06/hr	$12.82/hr	$14.78/hr	$17.80/hr	$21.80/hr	$26.19/hr
*SE = Standard error, a measure of the statistical reliability of the estimate.

Leading Industries for Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators Industry OES Employment OES Median Wage Trade, Transportation and Utilities 4,170 $21.56/hr Manufacturing 3,220 $20.87/hr Professional and Business Services 600 $19.23/hr Construction 360 $32.42/hr Other Services 20 $18.24/hr Public Administration 20 $22.74/hr

Other Regional Data For Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators Geography (click title for details) OES Projections Employment Median Wage % Change 2023 - 2025 Minnesota 8,430 $21.15/hr 2.1% Minneapolis-St Paul-Bloomington MN-WI MSA 5,130 $21.45/hr N/A Seven County Mpls-St Paul, MN 4,590 $21.77/hr N/A Central Minnesota 1,300 $20.10/hr N/A Southeast Minnesota 980 $20.76/hr N/A Southeast Balance of State 900 $20.75/hr N/A Northwest Minnesota 840 $18.92/hr N/A Southwest Minnesota 790 $21.54/hr N/A Fargo ND-MN MSA 700 $19.59/hr N/A Northwest Balance of State 670 $18.86/hr N/A Southwest Balance of State 620 $21.71/hr N/A St Cloud MN MSA 470 $18.34/hr N/A Mankato-North Mankato MN MSA 270 $22.62/hr N/A La Crosse WI-MN MSA 270 $15.34/hr N/A Rochester MN MSA 260 $21.51/hr N/A Duluth MN-WI MSA 230 $21.75/hr N/A Northeast Minnesota 180 $22.44/hr N/A Grand Forks ND-MN MSA 120 $19.77/hr N/A Northeast Balance of State 60 $18.64/hr N/A

Related Occupations

Occupation (click title for details)	OES		Projections
	Employment	Median Wage	% Change 2023 - 2025
Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners	44,880	$15.10/hr	2.0%
Refuse and Recyclable Material Collectors	1,960	$20.30/hr	0.7%
Glaziers	1,090	$27.65/hr	1.6%
Rail Yard Engineers, Dinkey Operators, and Hostlers	60	$23.43/hr	-1.2%

• Moves controls to drive gasoline- or electric-powered trucks, cars, or tractors and transport materials between loading, processing, and storage areas.
• Hooks tow trucks to trailer hitches and fastens attachments, such as graders, plows, rollers, and winch cables, to tractor, using hitchpins.
• Turns valves and opens chutes to dump, spray, or release materials from dump cars or storage bins into hoppers.
• Manually load or unload materials onto or off pallets, skids, platforms, cars, or lifting devices.
• Weighs materials or products and records weight and other production data on tags or labels.
• Signals workers to discharge, dump, or level materials.
• Operates or tends automatic stacking, loading, packaging, or cutting machines.
• Performs routine maintenance on vehicles and auxiliary equipment, such as cleaning, lubricating, recharging batteries, fueling, or replacing liquefied-gas tank.
• Moves levers and controls to operate lifting devices, such as forklifts, lift beams and swivel-hooks, hoists, and elevating platforms, to load, unload, transport, and stack material.
• Positions lifting device under, over, or around loaded pallets, skids, and boxes, and secures material or products for transport to designated areas.