Shuttle Drivers and Chauffeurs
SOC 53-3053 · 2024-2034
Drive a motor vehicle to transport passengers on a planned or scheduled basis. May collect a fare. Includes nonemergency medical transporters and hearse drivers.
How the U.S. Department of Labor describes this work. Published in English only.
The job this trains for
- Typical pay in California
- $45,709per year
- Projected openings
- 52,480
- Projected change
- +19.9%
- Usually needs
- No formal educational credential
Bright Outlook — a U.S. Department of Labor designation
Rapid Growth
The Department's own designation, made from its national projections. It is not this project's assessment and it is not California's: every other figure on this page comes from California's projection, which can point the other way and for some occupations does.
Skills this work uses most
O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, rates how important each of these is to this work, and they are listed in that order, most important first. The ratings themselves are not shown, because the data carries the number without the scale it was measured on. The names are as published, in English.
- Active Listening
- Monitoring
- Operation and Control
- Critical Thinking
- Social Perceptiveness
- Operations Monitoring
Pay by region
| Region | Typical pay in California | Projected openings |
|---|---|---|
| San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA (San Benito and Santa Clara Counties) | $48,747 | 1,810 |
| San Rafael MD (Marin County) | $48,028 | 260 |
| San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City MD (San Francisco and San Mateo Counties) | $47,994 | 4,800 |
| Chico MSA (Butte County) | $47,579 | 120 |
| Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley MD (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties) | $47,412 | 1,990 |
| Napa MSA (Napa County) | $46,422 | 190 |
| Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura MSA (Ventura County) | $45,080 | 680 |
| Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County) | $42,957 | 10,920 |
| Hanford-Corcoran MSA (Kings County) | $42,611 | 120 |
| San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles MSA (San Luis Obispo County) | $42,406 | 340 |
| Santa Rosa-Petaluma MSA (Sonoma County) | $41,812 | 560 |
| North Coast Region (Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, and Mendocino Counties) | $40,532 | 320 |
| Santa Cruz-Watsonville MSA (Santa Cruz County) | $40,276 | 280 |
| Stockton-Lodi MSA (San Joaquin County) | $39,917 | 490 |
| San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad MSA (San Diego County) | $39,856 | 3,150 |
| Santa Maria-Santa Barbara MSA (Santa Barbara County) | $39,856 | 430 |
| Vallejo MSA (Solano County) | $39,733 | 520 |
| Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties) | $39,036 | 2,920 |
| North Valley-Northern Mountains Region (Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity Counties) | $38,791 | 330 |
| Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region (Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Inyo, Mariposa, Mono, and Tuolumne Counties) | $38,719 | 150 |
| Visalia MSA (Tulare County) | $38,166 | 330 |
| El Centro MSA (Imperial County) | $38,022 | 70 |
| Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine MD (Orange County) | $37,929 | 3,920 |
| Yuba City MSA (Sutter and Yuba Counties) | $37,797 | 80 |
| Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties) | $37,602 | 2,930 |
| Merced MSA (Merced County) | $37,592 | 230 |
| Modesto MSA (Stanislaus County) | $37,592 | 490 |
| Fresno MSA (Fresno and Madera Counties) | $37,336 | 950 |
| Bakersfield-Delano MSA (Kern County) | $36,711 | 580 |
| Redding MSA (Shasta County) | $36,168 | 120 |
Similar work
O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, names these as occupations involving work similar to this one — its own reading of the job, not a grouping by code. They keep O*NET's order, and only those California publishes a projection for are shown.
| The job this trains for | Typical pay in California | Projected openings | Projected change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taxi Drivers | $40,119 | 66,330 | +48% |
| Bus Drivers, Transit and Intercity | $68,599 | 33,100 | +8.8% |
| Light Truck Drivers | $47,814 | 157,370 | +17.9% |
| Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers | $61,548 | 262,610 | +11.4% |
| Dispatchers, Except Police, Fire, and Ambulance | $53,589 | 23,150 | +5.2% |
| Bus Drivers, School | $62,376 | 26,030 | +3.1% |