SOC 53-1041 · Transportation and Material Moving Occupations · May 2025

How much do Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors make in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX?

In the May 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics estimates, released May 15, 2026, the median annual wage for Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX is $53,220. The 10th percentile is $45,100 and the 90th percentile is $84,370. Employment is 690.

Median annual wage

$53,220

10th percentile
$45,100
25th percentile
$48,680
Median
$53,220
75th percentile
$78,730
90th percentile
$84,370
Mean
$62,910

Annual wage from the May 2025 OEWS estimates.

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Senior Airman Stephen Czech, a firefighter at Spangdahlem Air Base, in 2021. Photograph by Staff Sgt. Susan Roberts, U.S. Air Force. Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

Percentile spread

For Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors, the published 10th percentile is $45,100 and the 90th percentile is $84,370. The difference is $39,270, which is 73.8% of the median. Ten percent of measured wages fall below the 10th percentile and ten percent fall above the 90th. How to read a percentile.

The middle half of the distribution, from the 25th percentile at $48,680 to the 75th at $78,730, covers $30,050.

The mean annual wage is $62,910, which sits above the median of $53,220. Median and mean measure different points in the same distribution.

National and state comparison

The Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX median is 8.5% lower than the national median of $58,170 for Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors. In 2024 national prices the local median is $51,625, which is 11.3% lower than that same national median. The national figure is already in national prices because the United States parity is 100.

It is 5.5% lower than the Texas median of $56,290.

Price-adjusted pay

The 2024 all-items regional price parity for Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX is 103.090, with the United States at 100. The Bureau of Economic Analysis released those parities on February 19, 2026. Dividing the May 2025 median of $53,220 by that parity and multiplying by 100 puts Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors at $51,625 in national prices. The wage year and the price year are different. Compare this wage after prices.

Nearby metros

No other metropolitan area within 200 miles has a published annual median for Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors in the May 2025 tables. A wage from farther away is not filled in. When a wage is not published.

Employment share

Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors accounts for 0.02% of wage-and-salary employment in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX (690 of 4,049,800). Nationally the occupation is 0.01% of employment (9,760 of 155,495,730). The local share is 2.71 times the national share. That ratio is the location quotient computed from these May 2025 employment counts. It is not copied from the location-quotient column in the BLS bulk file.

Highest-paying jobs in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX · Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors by metro · How to read these percentiles · Median and mean · When a wage is not published · How the figures are made · Compare this wage after prices

Questions this page answers

How much do Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors make in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX?

In the May 2025 OEWS estimates, released May 15, 2026, the median annual wage for Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX is $53,220. The 10th percentile is $45,100 and the 90th percentile is $84,370. Employment is 690.

How does that compare with the national median for Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors?

The local median is 8.5% lower than the national median of $58,170.

What is Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors pay in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX after local prices?

The 2024 all-items regional price parity for Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX is 103.090, with the United States at 100. In those national prices, the May 2025 median of $53,220 is $51,625. The wage is May 2025 and the parity is 2024.