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    Passenger Attendants

    Provide services to ensure the safety of passengers aboard ships, buses, trains, or within the station or terminal.

    Median pay
    $37,720
    Growth
    +6.0%
    Faster than average
    Openings a year
    4,300
    Typical education
    High school diploma

    Data verified Nov 2026 · CollegesRef 2026–27 edition

    Source: BLS 2025 wages · 2025–35 projections

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    Annual pay range

    Lowest 10% earn less than
    $27,970
    Median
    $37,720
    Highest 10% earn more than
    $46,590
    National wages for all workers in this occupation. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025.

    27,110 people work in this occupation.

    What passenger attendants do

    Job Zone 2: Some preparation

    Provide services to ensure the safety of passengers aboard ships, buses, trains, or within the station or terminal. Perform duties such as explaining the use of safety equipment, serving meals or beverages, or answering questions related to travel.

    Usually a high school diploma; some on-the-job training or experience.

    Interest profile

    Realistic (R)
    46 / 100
    Investigative (I)
    2 / 100
    Artistic (A)
    0 / 100
    Social (S)
    56 / 100
    Enterprising (E)
    35 / 100
    Conventional (C) · strongest
    58 / 100
    How strongly each interest area describes the work, from O*NET (scores rescaled to 0–100). The interest code lists the strongest areas in order.

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    What you'd do

    Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
    88
    Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others
    88
    Getting Information
    87
    Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings
    82
    Assisting and Caring for Others
    80
    Training and Teaching Others
    80
    Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials
    76
    Performing for or Working Directly with the Public
    75
    Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards
    72
    Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
    72
    Work activities rated by importance for this occupation, O*NET (0–100).

    Skills and strengths

    Skills

    • Active Listening
    • Speaking
    • Service Orientation
    • Social Perceptiveness
    • Monitoring
    • Critical Thinking
    • Instructing
    • Persuasion
    • Active Learning
    • Coordination

    Knowledge

    • Transportation
    • Customer and Personal Service
    • Public Safety and Security
    • Personnel and Human Resources
    • English Language
    • Mechanical
    • Psychology
    • Geography
    • Administration and Management
    • Administrative

    Abilities

    • Oral Expression
    • Oral Comprehension
    • Speech Clarity
    • Problem Sensitivity
    • Speech Recognition
    • Far Vision
    • Inductive Reasoning
    • Selective Attention
    • Auditory Attention
    • Deductive Reasoning

    Work styles

    • Dependability
    • Cooperation
    • Social Orientation
    • Empathy
    • Optimism
    • Self-Control
    • Cautiousness
    • Sincerity
    • Integrity
    • Attention to Detail

    Also called

    Airport Attendant · Attendant · Bus Aide · Bus Assistant · Bus Attendant · Bus Monitor · Cabin Attendant · Chair Car Attendant · Club Car Attendant · Fare Enforcement Officer

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    Sources and attribution

    Every figure on this page comes from these public datasets. Missing values are shown as not reported, never estimated.

    O*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license. CollegesRef has modified all or some of this information.

    Page data updated November 5, 2026.