SOC 33-9094.00

    School Bus Monitors

    Maintain order among students on a school bus.

    Median pay
    $35,100
    Growth
    -1.9%
    Decline
    Openings a year
    13,400
    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
    $28,130
    Median
    $35,100
    Highest 10% earn more than
    $43,250
    National wages for all workers in this occupation. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025.

    78,420 people work in this occupation.

    What school bus monitors do

    Job Zone 2: Some preparation

    Maintain order among students on a school bus. Duties include helping students safely board and exit and communicating behavioral problems. May perform pretrip and posttrip inspections and prepare for and assist in emergency evacuations.

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

    Interest profile

    Realistic (R)
    41 / 100
    Investigative (I)
    9 / 100
    Artistic (A)
    12 / 100
    Social (S) · strongest
    71 / 100
    Enterprising (E)
    16 / 100
    Conventional (C)
    63 / 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

    Assisting and Caring for Others
    77
    Getting Information
    76
    Making Decisions and Solving Problems
    69
    Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People
    68
    Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
    67
    Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials
    66
    Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings
    65
    Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
    65
    Performing General Physical Activities
    59
    Thinking Creatively
    59
    Work activities rated by importance for this occupation, O*NET (0–100).

    Skills and strengths

    Skills

    • Monitoring
    • Social Perceptiveness
    • Speaking
    • Active Listening
    • Service Orientation
    • Coordination
    • Critical Thinking
    • Judgment and Decision Making
    • Persuasion
    • Reading Comprehension

    Knowledge

    • Public Safety and Security
    • English Language
    • Transportation
    • Customer and Personal Service
    • Education and Training
    • Psychology
    • Administration and Management
    • Administrative
    • Personnel and Human Resources
    • Communications and Media

    Abilities

    • Oral Comprehension
    • Problem Sensitivity
    • Oral Expression
    • Speech Clarity
    • Speech Recognition
    • Deductive Reasoning
    • Inductive Reasoning
    • Written Expression
    • Far Vision
    • Information Ordering

    Work styles

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

    Also called

    Bus Aide · Bus Assistant · Bus Attendant · Bus Monitor · Bus Paraeducator · School Bus Aide · School Bus Assistant · School Bus Attendant · School Bus Escort · School Bus Matron

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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.