Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
Providence-Warwick, RI-MA metropolitan area. Estimated employment 10,900.
Data released May 2025
BLS OEWS · SOC 53-7062
Fig. 1 — The wage rule
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$40,370 · 50th
$33,64010th
$37,14025th
$40,37050th
$47,62075th
$57,15090th
That is the median — half of people in this occupation in Providence earn more.
Table 1 — Adjusted
$40,370 in Providence buys what $39,700 buys across the country as a whole.
Providence's regional price parity is 101.8 — above the national average, so the nominal figure overstates what it buys. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.
Sources
How this page was made
- Wage data
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release. Public domain.
- Price parity
- Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024.
- Employment
- 10,900 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 53-7062, Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand. Mapped to our taxonomy as laborers-and-freight-stock-and-material-movers-hand.
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