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Highway Maintenance Workers
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.
What a highway maintenance worker does
Become a highway maintenance worker
If you enjoy doing these activities, you might make a good highway maintenance worker
- Keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements.
- Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.
- Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.
Discover what you could earn in Washington
- Typical hourly rate is $35 per hour with a typical salary of $71,700 per year.
- Half of workers earn between $30 and $39 per hour.
- Half of workers earn an annual salary between $29,500 and $75,700 per year.
- 59% of individuals in this occupation have been employed in every quarter of the past year.
Part-time
- The typical hourly rate for part-time workers is $34 per hour with a typical salary of $33,100 per year.
- 24.1% of individuals in this occupation worked part-time during the past year.
Highway Maintenance Worker job outlook
- There are 2,450 workers in this occupation in Washington.
- There are 329 openings per year in this occupation in Washington.
Multiple Jobs
- 1% of individuals in this occupation worked for more than one employer.
- 18% of individuals in this occupation held a position in another.