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First-Line Supervisors of Transportation and Material Moving Workers, Except Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors pay in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX and Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for First-Line Supervisors of Transportation and Material Moving Workers, Except Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors is $60,760 per year in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX. It is $76,390 per year in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA. Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX is 20.5% below Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 53-1047 and the same annual wage metric. Median means the middle of each area's published wage spread. It is not one worker's pay. The larger median is not proof that one place gives a better job or a better result. It is one wage fact from one source period.
BLS lists 15,320 wage and salary jobs in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX and 8,250 in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA. Those are survey job counts, not open posts. Read pay, job scale, local share, and price level as separate facts before you make a choice.