Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators
SOC 53-7051 · 2024-2034
Operate industrial trucks or tractors equipped to move materials around a warehouse, storage yard, factory, construction site, or similar location.
How the U.S. Department of Labor describes this work. Published in English only.
The job this trains for
- Typical pay in California
- $48,816per year
- Projected openings
- 100,140
- Projected change
- +11.4%
- Usually needs
- No formal educational credential
Bright Outlook — a U.S. Department of Labor designation
Numerous Job Openings
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.
- Operation and Control
- Operations Monitoring
- Coordination
- Troubleshooting
- Time Management
- Equipment Maintenance
Pay by region
| Region | Typical pay in California | Projected openings |
|---|---|---|
| Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley MD (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties) | $61,404 | 4,110 |
| Stockton-Lodi MSA (San Joaquin County) | $59,031 | 8,930 |
| North Valley-Northern Mountains Region (Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity Counties) | $56,358 | 780 |
| Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties) | $55,866 | 35,980 |
| Napa MSA (Napa County) | $52,496 | 640 |
| San Rafael MD (Marin County) | $52,444 | 170 |
| San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA (San Benito and Santa Clara Counties) | $51,789 | 1,850 |
| San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City MD (San Francisco and San Mateo Counties) | $51,528 | 1,820 |
| Redding MSA (Shasta County) | $51,062 | 150 |
| Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties) | $50,744 | 4,100 |
| Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region (Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Inyo, Mariposa, Mono, and Tuolumne Counties) | $49,351 | 70 |
| Bakersfield-Delano MSA (Kern County) | $49,228 | 3,340 |
| North Coast Region (Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, and Mendocino Counties) | $49,023 | 320 |
| Santa Rosa-Petaluma MSA (Sonoma County) | $48,829 | 720 |
| Vallejo MSA (Solano County) | $48,532 | 570 |
| Visalia MSA (Tulare County) | $47,999 | 2,230 |
| Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County) | $47,964 | 17,960 |
| Santa Cruz-Watsonville MSA (Santa Cruz County) | $47,221 | 330 |
| Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine MD (Orange County) | $46,889 | 5,180 |
| San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad MSA (San Diego County) | $46,831 | 3,330 |
| Hanford-Corcoran MSA (Kings County) | $46,647 | 330 |
| Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura MSA (Ventura County) | $45,592 | 1,540 |
| Merced MSA (Merced County) | $45,572 | 900 |
| Modesto MSA (Stanislaus County) | $45,572 | 2,390 |
| San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles MSA (San Luis Obispo County) | $45,500 | 200 |
| Chico MSA (Butte County) | $44,977 | 230 |
| El Centro MSA (Imperial County) | $44,639 | 330 |
| Santa Maria-Santa Barbara MSA (Santa Barbara County) | $44,609 | 830 |
| Yuba City MSA (Sutter and Yuba Counties) | $44,486 | 310 |
| Fresno MSA (Fresno and Madera Counties) | $44,107 | 4,080 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crane and Tower Operators | $81,312 | 1,960 | +4.8% |
| Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand | $45,689 | 502,850 | +8.6% |
| Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators | $89,521 | 33,360 | +7% |
| Riggers | $88,154 | 2,470 | +9.1% |
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