How much do Subway and Streetcar Operators make in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA?

Percentile spread

For Subway and Streetcar Operators, the published 10th percentile is $65,290 and the 90th percentile is $93,010. The difference is $27,720, which is 36.0% 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 $65,290 to the 75th at $93,010, covers $27,720.

The mean annual wage is $78,220, which sits above the median of $77,020. Median and mean measure different points in the same distribution.

National and state comparison

The Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA median is 10.8% lower than the national median of $86,380 for Subway and Streetcar Operators. In 2024 national prices the local median is $69,304, which is 19.8% lower than that same national median. The national figure is already in national prices because the United States parity is 100.

It is about the same as the Washington median of $77,020.

Price-adjusted pay

The 2024 all-items regional price parity for Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA is 111.133, with the United States at 100. The Bureau of Economic Analysis released those parities on February 19, 2026. Dividing the May 2025 median of $77,020 by that parity and multiplying by 100 puts Subway and Streetcar Operators at $69,304 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 Subway and Streetcar Operators in the May 2025 tables. A wage from farther away is not filled in. When a wage is not published.

Employment share

Subway and Streetcar Operators accounts for 0.02% of wage-and-salary employment in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA (320 of 2,086,210). Nationally the occupation is 0.01% of employment (10,200 of 155,495,730). The local share is 2.34 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.