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Tank Car, Truck, and Ship Loaders pay in Alabama and Arkansas
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Tank Car, Truck, and Ship Loaders is $75,450 per year in Alabama. It is $33,800 per year in Arkansas. Alabama is 123.2% above Arkansas on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 53-7121 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 240 wage and salary jobs in Alabama and 150 in Arkansas. 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.