Average Salary

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One of the most popular questions we get from our readers here is how much do Transportation Planners make per year and their hourly wage.

Starting Salary

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Entry-level Transportation Planners with little to no experience can expect to make anywhere between $50610 to $64090 per year or $24 to $31 per hour.

Just like any other job, the salary of a Transportation Planner will increase as they become more experienced.

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Salary Rank

We wanted to make it easy for our readers to compare the salary of a Transportation Planner to all the other careers out there. So we created Salary Rank. We compare the salary of all careers then we give them a rank of A, B, C or D depending on where their average salary sits in comparison to other careers.

After comparing how much do Transportation Planners make with other careers, they have a salary rank of A.

Salary range

Level	Hourly	Yearly
Highest (Top 10%)	$61	$126060
Senior (Top 25%)	$50	$103880
Middle (Mid 50%)	$39	$81340
Junior (Bottom 25%)	$31	$64090
No experience (Bottom 10%)	$24	$50610

Highest paying states

State	Hourly	Annual
VA	$ 53	$ 110,090
DC	$ 49	$ 102,300
MD	$ 48	$ 98,920
HI	$ 45	$ 94,440
MN	$ 45	$ 94,380
NH	$ 44	$ 91,030
NJ	$ 42	$ 88,350
GA	$ 42	$ 86,810
NY	$ 41	$ 84,940
AL	$ 41	$ 84,890

Another simple way to increase your salary as a Transportation Planner is to move to a higher paying state. However moving to a higher paying state like VA doesn’t guarantee that you will make more because the expenses at VA might be much higher than where you are currently living at right now.

According to BLS, the highest paid Transportation Planners are in the states of VA, DC, MD, HI and MN.

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http://www.bls.gov/ooh/life-physical-and-social-science/urban-and-regional-planners.htm

https://www.planning.org/

https://www.planning.org/aicp/

http://www.planningaccreditationboard.org/