Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metropolitan area. Estimated employment 28,510.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of people in this occupation in Washington earn more.
$42,590 in Washington buys what $39,100 buys across the country as a whole.
Washington's regional price parity is 108.9 — well above the national average — a dollar here buys noticeably less than in the US as a whole. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.
Nominal against real
The same median, once as published and once restated in 2025 dollars.
Published pay rose 18.8% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it is roughly flat — people in this occupation in Washington earn about what they earned in 2021. The two lines meet at the right edge by construction, since 2025 is the base year.
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.
- Inflation
- Real figures deflate by CPI-U annual averages (BLS, all items, US city average).
- Employment
- 28,510 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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