Colorado › Occupations › SOC 53-0000 · One of the 22 major groups
Transportation and Material Moving Occupations
Across the 35 of this group's 50 occupations with published Colorado employment, 214,880 Coloradans work in transportation and material moving occupations (15 more occupations have no published Colorado estimate, so the true total is somewhat higher). Weighted by those published jobs, the group's mean exposure score is 14.6 of 100, and 0.0% of the jobs are in occupations where most or a large minority of tasks overlap with AI capabilities assessed in 2023.
Stockers and Order Fillers; Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand; Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers — the largest of this group's 50 occupations in Colorado.
Every statewide figure on this page is computed directly on published BLS OEWS Colorado state data — a different basis from the county estimates elsewhere on this site, which model occupation mixes from industry mix. The one county table below is labeled accordingly.
- Published CO employment
- 214,880 across 35 of 50 occupations · OEWS 2025
- Employment-weighted mean score
- 14.6 0–100 scale · published statewide data only
- High + substantial share
- 0.0% of the group's published jobs · score ≥ 45 of 100
- CO median wages
- $30,800–$307,490 range across the 39 occupations with published medians · annual, 2025
Plate I
Tier mix within the group
How this group's 50 occupations — and its 214,880 published Colorado jobs — split across the four task-overlap tiers (cuts at 60/45/30 on the 0–100 score scale).
| Tier | Occupations | Published CO jobs | Share of published jobs |
|---|---|---|---|
| high overlap | 0 | 0 | 0.0% |
| substantial overlap | 0 | 0 | 0.0% |
| some overlap | 3 | 810 | 0.4% |
| little overlap | 47 | 214,070 | 99.6% |
Plate II
The ten largest occupations in this group
| Occupation | Tier | Score | CO jobs | CO median wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stockers and Order Fillers | little overlap | 19.1 | 55,520 | $42,350 |
| Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand | little overlap | 4.1 | 31,140 | $45,370 |
| Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers | little overlap | 17.3 | 25,350 | $61,500 |
| Light Truck Drivers | little overlap | 25.0 | 15,810 | $48,410 |
| First-Line Supervisors of Transportation and Material Moving Workers, Except Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors | little overlap | 13.4 | 11,890 | $65,380 |
| Driver/Sales Workers | little overlap | 13.9 | 10,790 | $43,420 |
| Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators | little overlap | 3.1 | 8,570 | $50,570 |
| Flight Attendants | little overlap | 14.6 | 7,110 | $59,500 |
| Cleaners of Vehicles and Equipment | little overlap | —‡ | 6,750 | $39,610 |
| Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers | little overlap | 22.7 | 5,830 | $307,490 |
‡ the published rating is zero — below measurable task overlap, a rating floor rather than a claim of total safety; exact values are in the downloads.
Plate III
Where this work concentrates
The six counties where this group is the largest share of local jobs. These county figures are estimates — modeled from each county's industry mix, not published counts (how county estimates are built) — and a share of a small county's job base can rank above a metro county's much larger absolute employment.
| County | Est. share of county jobs | Est. group jobs | Data quality |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adams | 15.4% | 38,479 | Full |
| Morgan | 11.5% | 1,528 | Partially imputed estimate |
| Kit Carson | 10.3% | 313 | Partially imputed estimate |
| Weld | 9.7% | 12,006 | Full |
| Yuma | 9.6% | 388 | Partially imputed estimate |
| Montrose | 9.5% | 1,663 | Partially imputed estimate |