Highway Maintenance Workers

Maintain highways, municipal and rural roads, airport runways, and rights-of-way. Duties include patching broken or eroded pavement and repairing guard rails, highway markers, and snow fences. May also mow or clear brush from along road, or plow snow from roadway.

Salary by State

State Name	Employment	Annual Salary	Hourly Salary
Alabama	3,170	$31,460	$15.12
Arizona	1,400	$41,640	$20.02
Arkansas	2,490	$33,770	$16.24
California	7,940	$54,750	$26.32
Colorado	2,480	$46,450	$22.33
Connecticut	2,360	$57,330	$27.56
Delaware	90	$37,020	$17.80
Florida	1,130	$36,390	$17.50
Georgia	2,160	$32,320	$15.54
Hawaii	120	$33,930	$16.31
Idaho	970	$42,780	$20.57
Illinois	6,080	$55,430	$26.65
Indiana	4,390	$41,610	$20.00
Iowa	3,930	$49,590	$23.84
Kansas	2,190	$37,930	$18.23
Kentucky	2,570	$32,900	$15.82
Louisiana	1,410	$29,980	$14.41
Maine	1,580	$42,080	$20.23
Maryland	570	$43,080	$20.71
Massachusetts	1,120	$51,760	$24.89
Michigan	2,960	$46,630	$22.42
Minnesota	4,900	$54,460	$26.18
Mississippi	3,080	$30,290	$14.56
Missouri	2,640	$36,850	$17.72
Montana	1,110	$47,540	$22.86
Nebraska	2,290	$40,140	$19.30
Nevada	670	$45,000	$21.64
New Hampshire	1,430	$41,270	$19.84
New Jersey	2,910	$47,670	$22.92
New Mexico	1,590	$37,900	$18.22
New York	13,140	$49,390	$23.75
North Carolina	3,370	$40,980	$19.70
North Dakota	1,070	$49,360	$23.73
Ohio	6,730	$44,590	$21.44
Oklahoma	3,070	$36,640	$17.62
Oregon	1,860	$53,620	$25.78
Pennsylvania	11,560	$45,740	$21.99
Rhode Island	560	$48,870	$23.50
South Carolina	2,550	$32,420	$15.59
South Dakota	1,910	$38,770	$18.64
Tennessee	1,030	$34,980	$16.82
Texas	6,210	$35,130	$16.89
Utah	1,460	$37,420	$17.99
Vermont	780	$46,670	$22.44
Virginia	3,860	$40,350	$19.40
Washington	2,440	$59,580	$28.64
West Virginia	990	$38,100	$18.32
Wisconsin	5,790	$47,140	$22.66
Wyoming	850	$42,470	$20.42

Education

The programs listed below are typically the education paths that can land you this kind of job.

A program that prepares individuals to apply technical knowledge and skills to operate and maintain a variety of heavy equipment, such as a crawler tractors, motor graders and scrapers, shovels, rigging devices, hoists, and jacks. Includes instruction in digging, ditching, sloping, stripping, grading, and backfiling, clearing and excavating.