Highway Maintenance Workers
Maintain highways, municipal and rural roads, airport runways, and rights-of-way.
About the profession
Maintain highways, municipal and rural roads, airport runways, and rights-of-way. Duties include patching broken or eroded pavement and repairing guard rails, highway markers, and snow fences. May also mow or clear brush from along road, or plow snow from roadway.
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Occupation on screen: Highway Maintenance Workers (O*NET 47-4051.00). Closed captions in English and Spanish. CareerOneStop (U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration)
Personality Fit
Based on the Highway Maintenance Workers role, here are the RIASEC personality types that tend to thrive in this career. While these alignments are common, individual success depends on motivation, skill development, and finding the right work environment.
Enterprising
Leading, persuading, business
Social
Helping, teaching, working with people
Conventional
Organizing, detail-oriented, structured
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Career Path
Your career progression roadmap with salary growth at each level
Career Ladder
Trainee Highway Maintenance Worker → Technician Highway Maintenance Worker → Senior Technician Highway Maintenance Worker → Lead Technician Highway Maintenance Worker
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Salary Growth
4
Levels
$66K
Top Salary
8+
Years
Learning Path
Skills you need to develop and courses to get there
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Timeline: 0-2 | Entry Level Base: $32,280 - $40,823/year With equity/bonuses: $35,508 - $48,988 Top markets (SF/NYC): $37,122 - $48,988 Execute core tasks using Operation and…
Skills used in this career
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Day in Life
Junior vs Senior, daily schedule breakdown
9am, Drive trucks to transport crews and equipment to work sites. 10am, Erect, install, or repair guardrails, road shoulders, berms, highway markers, warning signals, and highway…
Income Dynamics
Conservative and aggressive scenarios for 10–15 years
Year 1: Entry level $22,596 - $36,741 Year 2-3: Junior level $40,823 - $46,897 Year 4-6: Mid level $46,897 - $50,846 Year 7-10: Senior level $50,846 - $60,803 Year 10+:…
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You find the craft of a Highway Maintenance Worker genuinely interesting, not just a paycheck You enjoy working with Operation and Control and Operations Monitoring You…
💰 Salary Range
BLS OEWS, May 2023Half of U.S. workers in this occupation earn more than this, half earn less.
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