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What is this page & how do I use it?

This is a sector view — every transportation career CareerStar rates, on the same neutral baseline, with field-level stats up top so you can size up the whole field at a glance.

How to use it: the table is ranked best-first. Click any career for its full report, and watch the moat column — 🏰 wide means well-shielded from AI, — means broadly exposed.

Careers
45
Median score
44
Avg growth
+2.1%
Wide moats
7/45

Every transportation career, on a neutral baseline · median pay $57k · click a career for its full report · moat = how shielded from AI (🏰 wide = well-defended, 🛡 narrow = some shelter, — = broadly exposed)

CareerRatingMoatGrowthPay
Commercial pilots5.0 · 66🏰 Wide+5.1%$123k
Flight attendants5.0 · 64🏰 Wide+9.2%$67k
Airline pilots, copilots, and flight engineers4.5 · 60🏰 Wide+3.9%$227k
Aircraft cargo handling supervisors4.5 · 54🏰 Wide+5.2%$64k
Ship engineers4.0 · 52🏰 Wide+1.6%$101k
Subway and streetcar operators4.0 · 52+3.4%$85k
Tank car, truck, and ship loaders4.0 · 52🛡 Narrow+4.3%$58k
Air traffic controllers4.0 · 51🛡 Narrow+1.2%$145k
Crane and tower operators4.0 · 50🛡 Narrow+3%$66k
Bus drivers, transit and intercity4.0 · 49🛡 Narrow+4.3%$57k
Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers3.5 · 47🛡 Narrow+4%$57k
Airfield operations specialists3.5 · 46🛡 Narrow+4.2%$57k
Captains, mates, and pilots of water vessels3.5 · 46🛡 Narrow+0.5%$86k
Light truck drivers3.5 · 46+7.3%$44k
Stockers and order fillers3.5 · 46+8.5%$37k
Taxi drivers3.5 · 46🛡 Narrow+11.1%$36k
Transportation inspectors3.5 · 46+1.7%$86k
Aircraft service attendants3.5 · 44🛡 Narrow+5.1%$42k
Driver/sales workers3.5 · 44+8.8%$37k
Locomotive engineers3.5 · 44🛡 Narrow+0.7%$77k
Pump operators, except wellhead pumpers3.5 · 44+2.6%$60k
Railroad conductors and yardmasters3.5 · 44🛡 Narrow+1.1%$74k
Traffic technicians3.5 · 44+3.7%$58k
Railroad brake, signal, and switch operators and locomotive firers3.5 · 43🛡 Narrow+1%$65k
Shuttle drivers and chauffeurs3.5 · 43🛡 Narrow+6.7%$37k
Sailors and marine oilers3.0 · 42🛡 Narrow+2.3%$50k
Gas compressor and gas pumping station operators3.0 · 40🛡 Narrow-1.3%$72k
Motorboat operators3.0 · 40🏰 Wide+1.4%$52k
Passenger attendants3.0 · 40🛡 Narrow+4.7%$38k
Wellhead pumpers3.0 · 39🏰 Wide-4.7%$70k
Rail yard engineers, dinkey operators, and hostlers3.0 · 38🛡 Narrow+0.3%$58k
Cleaners of vehicles and equipment3.0 · 37🛡 Narrow+3.9%$35k
Dredge operators3.0 · 37🛡 Narrow+1.2%$48k
Hoist and winch operators3.0 · 36🛡 Narrow-1.1%$52k
Industrial truck and tractor operators2.5 · 34🛡 Narrow+1.1%$46k
Refuse and recyclable material collectors2.5 · 34+0.9%$48k
Parking attendants2.5 · 33+3%$35k
Bridge and lock tenders2.5 · 32-3.3%$58k
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand2.5 · 32🛡 Narrow+1.5%$39k
Bus drivers, school2.5 · 31🛡 Narrow+0.2%$47k
Conveyor operators and tenders2.0 · 25🛡 Narrow-3.4%$41k
Ambulance drivers and attendants, except emergency medical technicians2.0 · 24🛡 Narrow-1.3%$34k
Automotive and watercraft service attendants2.0 · 24🛡 Narrow-1%$35k
Packers and packagers, hand1.5 · 21-5.4%$36k
Machine feeders and offbearers1.0 · 20-13%$40k