Transportation and Material Moving
Parking Attendants
Park vehicles or issue tickets for customers in a parking lot or garage. May park or tend vehicles in environments such as a car dealership or rental car facility. May collect fee.
Also called: Hiker, Parking Attendant, Parking Cashier, Parking Lot Attendant, Parking Ramp Attendant, Valet Attendant
- Median pay in Greater Boston
- $37,360
- $17.96/hr
- Jobs in Greater Boston
- 2,650
- Massachusetts 2024–2034
- +2.8%
- 460 openings a year
- Typical U.S. entry requirement
- No formal educational credential
- plus Short-term on-the-job training
Greater Boston: Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area, May 2025. Growth and openings: Massachusetts statewide projection.
Pay range in Greater Boston
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $35,880 | $37,240 | $37,360 | $38,620 | $44,790 |
10% of workers earn less than the first figure and 10% earn more than the last.
What you’d do
- Take numbered tags from customers, locate vehicles, and deliver vehicles, or provide customers with instructions for locating vehicles.
- Inspect vehicles to detect any damage.
- Greet customers and open their car doors.
- Issue ticket stubs or place numbered tags on windshields, log tags or attach tag to customers' keys, and give customers matching tags for locating parked vehicles.
- Perform cash handling tasks, such as making change, balancing and recording cash drawer, or distributing tips.
- Explain and calculate parking charges, collect fees from customers, and respond to customer complaints.
AI and this job
AI exposure: how much of this job’s work AI tools can do or help with, based on national research. It is not a forecast of job loss.
Lower exposure22 of 100
The index averages three national research measures, each shown as a percentile of all jobs:
- AIOE 22
- Language-model AIOE 16
- GPTs-are-GPTs 27
Observed AI use today: Little or none (Anthropic Economic Index)
AI exposure for parking attendants is lower, and observed AI use is little or none. AI tools and automated systems may touch ticketing, tag tracking, and payment handling. Greeting customers, finding and moving vehicles, and checking for damage still rely on people on site.
Likely to change
- Ticketing and tag tracking
- Cash handling and payment records
Still relies on people
- Greeting customers face to face
- Driving vehicles and checking for damage
Written with AI from the data on this page. Check with a career coach before making a decision.
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