DETAILED OCCUPATION DATA
53-7051 Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators
Occupational Description:
Operate industrial trucks or tractors equipped to move materials around a warehouse, storage yard, factory, construction site, or similar location. Excludes “Logging Equipment Operators" (45-4022).| Percentiles | |||||||||
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| Geography | Employment | Emp SE* | Mean | Mean SE* | 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
| Northwest Minnesota | 880 | 104 | $15.90/hr | $0.50/hr | $10.79/hr | $12.83/hr | $15.20/hr | $18.82/hr | $22.34/hr |
| Minnesota | 8,680 | 417 | $17.25/hr | $0.21/hr | $11.24/hr | $13.65/hr | $17.00/hr | $20.79/hr | $23.50/hr |
| U S | 496,570 | 4,469 | $15.70/hr | $0.08/hr | $9.97/hr | $11.99/hr | $14.78/hr | $18.44/hr | $22.72/hr |
| *SE = Standard error, a measure of the statistical reliability of the estimate. | |||||||||
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| Occupation (click title for details) | OES | Projections | |
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| Employment | Median Wage | % Change 2010 - 2020 | |
| Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners | 3,560 | $10.86/hr | 11.1% |
| Refuse and Recyclable Material Collectors | 180 | $16.32/hr | 46.1% |
Tasks for Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators
- Moves controls to drive gasoline- or electric-powered trucks, cars, or tractors and transport materials between loading, processing, and storage areas.
- Hooks tow trucks to trailer hitches and fastens attachments, such as graders, plows, rollers, and winch cables, to tractor, using hitchpins.
- Turns valves and opens chutes to dump, spray, or release materials from dump cars or storage bins into hoppers.
- Manually load or unload materials onto or off pallets, skids, platforms, cars, or lifting devices.
- Weighs materials or products and records weight and other production data on tags or labels.
- Signals workers to discharge, dump, or level materials.
- Operates or tends automatic stacking, loading, packaging, or cutting machines.
- Performs routine maintenance on vehicles and auxiliary equipment, such as cleaning, lubricating, recharging batteries, fueling, or replacing liquefied-gas tank.
- Moves levers and controls to operate lifting devices, such as forklifts, lift beams and swivel-hooks, hoists, and elevating platforms, to load, unload, transport, and stack material.
- Positions lifting device under, over, or around loaded pallets, skids, and boxes, and secures material or products for transport to designated areas.