Couriers and Messengers Salary

Average salary, salary range, and compensation data for Couriers and Messengers positions across the United States.

Median Annual Salary

$38,340

National average

Salary Range

$29,880 – $50,590

10th–90th percentile

Data Year

2024

Source: BLS

Couriers and Messengers Salary by City

LocationMedian SalaryMinMax
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA$52,310$44,930$65,370
Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA$49,090$40,110$63,550
Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT$48,770$36,810$75,880
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA$47,490$40,660$59,330
Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT$47,290$38,110$80,070
Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA$46,810$36,820$50,690
North Coast Region of California nonmetropolitan area$46,460$35,600$61,760
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA$45,900$38,520$58,310
Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO$45,840$37,730$61,650
Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI$45,790$36,340$56,810
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV$45,780$33,330$58,600
Napa, CA$44,720$40,740$48,480
Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA$44,680$35,040$50,830
Colorado$44,610$34,510$57,120
California$44,600$35,530$57,020
San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA$44,350$35,310$49,530
Washington$44,170$36,690$55,760
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA$44,080$36,250$51,260
District of Columbia$44,010$38,890$52,320
Minnesota$43,890$34,720$56,460
Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA$43,860$36,060$70,410
Modesto, CA$43,620$33,280$70,370
Fresno, CA$43,590$34,970$49,320
Bellingham, WA$43,030$37,580$53,690
Duluth, MN-WI$42,920$34,240$46,800
Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV$42,890$30,870$49,610
Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH$42,560$34,560$50,550
Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA$42,550$35,820$53,700
Nevada$42,490$30,120$49,610
Massachusetts$42,250$33,900$50,130
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ$42,230$36,670$59,960
Cleveland, OH$41,910$33,710$45,950
Oregon$41,870$34,110$50,620
Eastern Oregon nonmetropolitan area$41,870$37,000$57,360
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA$41,760$36,000$50,500
Akron, OH$41,640$32,920$42,840
Salt Lake City-Murray, UT$41,600$37,320$46,210
Utah$41,600$35,860$46,560
New Haven, CT$41,540$39,560$85,040
Bakersfield-Delano, CA$41,530$35,350$57,950
Chico, CA$41,530$40,510$49,660
Stockton-Lodi, CA$41,370$33,280$59,480
Redding, CA$41,160$33,280$54,850
Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA$41,140$36,550$50,260
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN$41,020$31,990$47,700
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA$40,930$33,280$54,860
Richmond, VA$40,540$31,500$48,170
Visalia, CA$40,540$35,140$49,550
East Central Illinois nonmetropolitan area$40,320$33,460$44,240
St. Cloud, MN$40,310$28,490$58,840
Worcester, MA$40,250$32,670$48,130
Springfield, MO$40,230$35,450$43,550
Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC$40,230$30,310$48,850
Salem, OR$40,210$31,390$49,070
Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI$40,140$31,200$49,920
Winchester, VA-WV$40,120$25,650$43,530
Maine$40,020$36,940$45,550
Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN$40,020$32,210$46,380
Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA$39,990$32,180$40,800
Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX$39,910$28,850$52,070
Anchorage, AK$39,910$35,890$49,450
St. Louis, MO-IL$39,830$30,260$46,390
New York$39,780$34,480$57,990
New Jersey$39,710$34,880$53,110
Kansas City, MO-KS$39,710$24,900$44,140
Illinois$39,680$30,860$46,160
Medford, OR$39,660$35,100$45,810
Trenton-Princeton, NJ$39,650$35,530$50,210
Vermont$39,600$35,360$44,810
Ogden, UT$39,570$39,560$39,570
Iowa City, IA$39,540$26,460$44,820
Missouri$39,520$29,120$46,390
Joplin, MO-KS$39,520$29,240$39,520
Madison, WI$39,520$35,050$47,640
Wenatchee-East Wenatchee, WA$39,510$34,650$49,650
Santa Fe, NM$39,300$28,970$42,490
Waterbury-Shelton, CT$39,300$32,640$74,810
Durham-Chapel Hill, NC$39,240$38,490$49,230
Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY$39,240$33,020$51,120
North Valley-Northern Mountains Region of California nonmetropolitan area$39,220$33,810$60,680
Alaska$39,170$35,890$48,930
Southeast Oklahoma nonmetropolitan area$39,120$28,690$48,220
North Florida nonmetropolitan area$39,110$29,110$50,910
Tulsa, OK$39,090$28,600$52,900
Oklahoma$39,090$26,820$49,060
Colorado Springs, CO$38,970$29,990$46,810
Odessa, TX$38,890$27,560$46,370
Reno, NV$38,870$29,360$57,530
Springfield, MA$38,870$31,870$46,960
Providence-Warwick, RI-MA$38,820$32,100$47,790
Montana$38,780$32,440$48,380
Lexington-Fayette, KY$38,700$27,250$49,670
Twin Falls, ID$38,670$28,390$43,880
San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX$38,650$27,210$44,130
New Hampshire$38,620$25,460$52,000
Manchester-Nashua, NH$38,620$31,610$47,800
Charlottesville, VA$38,570$29,380$49,020
Kennewick-Richland, WA$38,560$35,540$50,920
Charleston-North Charleston, SC$38,500$26,270$47,140
Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ$38,490$29,700$46,430
Jackson, TN$38,470$27,830$46,020
Columbia, MO$38,450$32,280$41,180
Raleigh-Cary, NC$38,430$31,820$51,680
Rhode Island$38,420$35,760$51,150
Virginia$38,380$31,080$54,000
Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX$38,360$28,140$46,050
Hawaii / Kauai nonmetropolitan area$38,350$35,350$43,940
Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA$38,340$38,340$50,800
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD$38,330$33,160$48,610
Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN$38,270$32,870$50,430
North Carolina$38,260$29,680$48,520
Greensboro-High Point, NC$38,260$30,110$47,280
Wyoming$38,230$22,350$55,890
Casper, WY$38,230$22,350$55,890
Racine-Mount Pleasant, WI$38,220$31,330$45,310
Logan, UT-ID$38,190$38,190$42,680
Spartanburg, SC$38,150$25,710$38,670
Rockford, IL$38,130$29,490$45,280
Maryland$38,010$32,890$48,410
Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD$38,010$34,600$48,410
Columbus, OH$37,990$30,640$50,820
Maryland nonmetropolitan area$37,980$32,930$43,150
Pittsburgh, PA$37,940$30,220$46,800
Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC$37,920$23,560$46,130
Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN$37,910$29,260$50,590
Northwest Iowa nonmetropolitan area$37,910$32,820$41,600
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX$37,860$29,060$46,030
Topeka, KS$37,850$29,260$44,010
Asheville, NC$37,850$31,870$47,840
Albuquerque, NM$37,830$29,650$38,780
Cedar Rapids, IA$37,810$33,860$39,450
Northwest Minnesota nonmetropolitan area$37,800$34,420$46,140
Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ$37,790$29,850$44,740
Lansing-East Lansing, MI$37,780$31,280$42,140
Iowa$37,730$29,940$40,800
Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL$37,710$32,080$49,910
Ohio$37,680$30,550$44,960
La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN$37,660$31,330$44,400
Southwest Iowa nonmetropolitan area$37,640$30,600$50,470
Upper Peninsula of Michigan nonmetropolitan area$37,610$31,320$54,410
Kalamazoo-Portage, MI$37,600$30,680$45,650
Pennsylvania$37,590$29,060$46,430
Oklahoma City, OK$37,580$27,460$52,430
Peoria, IL$37,570$30,120$44,540
Delaware$37,560$33,990$40,010
Eugene-Springfield, OR$37,510$30,850$48,210
Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL$37,490$28,300$44,360
Eastern Washington nonmetropolitan area$37,490$34,800$56,430
Hawaii$37,480$35,350$44,140
Urban Honolulu, HI$37,480$34,970$46,330
Indiana$37,470$30,620$49,270
Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY$37,460$31,410$47,810
Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL$37,440$31,480$46,470
Western North Carolina nonmetropolitan area$37,440$25,640$42,990
Central New Hampshire nonmetropolitan area$37,430$22,350$42,940
Gainesville, FL$37,400$31,730$49,060
Idaho$37,360$30,720$46,170
Boise City, ID$37,360$31,200$44,340
Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI$37,340$31,580$46,940
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL$37,320$30,120$44,710
Texas$37,310$27,570$45,790
Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH$37,290$33,240$43,500
Southeast Missouri nonmetropolitan area$37,290$35,230$42,070
West Virginia$37,260$23,960$39,250
Arizona$37,220$29,850$44,620
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA$37,200$33,170$52,840
Yakima, WA$37,200$34,210$44,800
Wisconsin$37,170$24,080$45,930
Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL$37,170$29,190$44,980
Georgia$37,140$28,080$47,840
Michigan$37,130$30,160$47,850
Central Kentucky nonmetropolitan area$37,090$26,650$45,900
Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA$37,060$34,520$46,340
Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH$37,050$22,310$41,390
Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL$37,050$28,520$44,640
Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY$37,020$32,180$48,230
Birmingham, AL$37,020$27,180$39,780
Naples-Marco Island, FL$37,010$30,270$45,640
South Central Wisconsin nonmetropolitan area$36,940$26,030$42,540
Fayetteville, NC$36,910$21,450$42,540
Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL$36,910$29,730$46,230
South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI$36,860$31,400$44,410
Abilene, TX$36,850$21,700$45,730
Salinas, CA$36,820$34,330$50,700
New Mexico$36,790$28,200$42,960
Florida$36,760$29,730$45,480
Lincoln, NE$36,730$24,960$47,980
Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC$36,720$32,350$46,000
Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL$36,710$21,560$40,890
Tennessee$36,690$26,730$47,150
Valdosta, GA$36,550$19,770$38,090
Ann Arbor, MI$36,550$30,850$58,540
Saginaw, MI$36,540$31,150$37,680
Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR$36,540$26,480$38,270
Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN$36,510$28,450$44,480
Syracuse, NY$36,480$31,720$50,360
El Paso, TX$36,480$23,130$43,300
Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR$36,440$31,290$44,350
North Dakota$36,400$33,230$49,930
Southwest Virginia nonmetropolitan area$36,380$25,300$49,050
Kentucky$36,350$27,200$44,490
West Kentucky nonmetropolitan area$36,350$28,150$45,910
Wilmington, NC$36,340$31,090$47,240
Jackson, MS$36,330$23,470$39,070
Coast Oregon nonmetropolitan area$36,320$29,680$47,840
Northeastern Pennsylvania nonmetropolitan area$36,310$27,610$51,870
Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA$36,300$31,080$41,040
Southwest New York nonmetropolitan area$36,300$32,870$42,280
Champaign-Urbana, IL$36,290$31,210$44,440
Dubuque, IA$36,290$33,050$39,380
Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL$36,280$27,620$44,660
Springfield, IL$36,250$31,850$55,190
Rochester, NY$36,240$31,250$47,570
Fort Wayne, IN$36,230$30,990$48,260
Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC$36,110$20,730$52,660
Toledo, OH$36,110$29,070$41,440
Winston-Salem, NC$36,110$27,040$43,920
Tucson, AZ$36,030$29,850$42,550
North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL$36,010$29,030$48,580
Bloomington, IN$35,980$31,010$48,520
Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX$35,960$28,490$47,360
Central East New York nonmetropolitan area$35,960$32,000$47,960
Ocala, FL$35,900$27,290$44,480
Capital/Northern New York nonmetropolitan area$35,880$32,000$44,990
Eastern North Carolina nonmetropolitan area$35,880$22,690$45,050
Eastern Ohio nonmetropolitan area$35,860$28,600$40,760
Port St. Lucie, FL$35,840$28,490$47,090
Greenville, NC$35,840$21,740$45,230
Erie, PA$35,800$25,700$43,750
Canton-Massillon, OH$35,760$29,970$43,550
Memphis, TN-MS-AR$35,730$29,530$47,920
Binghamton, NY$35,720$31,200$44,230
Southside Virginia nonmetropolitan area$35,620$27,710$36,380
Michigan City-La Porte, IN$35,610$35,360$37,880
North Georgia nonmetropolitan area$35,580$28,980$43,660
Northwestern South Carolina nonmetropolitan area$35,560$23,470$44,070
Kansas$35,520$22,620$44,910
Burlington, NC$35,520$35,110$44,430
Appleton, WI$35,490$32,030$39,070
Arkansas$35,430$25,540$41,280
Lubbock, TX$35,400$25,580$45,140
South Carolina$35,360$23,570$44,000
Florence, SC$35,360$20,640$45,210
Lancaster, PA$35,360$27,500$43,370
Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT$35,350$29,740$48,900
Bowling Green, KY$35,350$22,350$38,630
Longview, TX$35,350$25,380$45,680
Salisbury, MD$35,340$35,210$38,900
Waco, TX$35,240$30,760$45,690
Sussex Delaware nonmetropolitan area$35,200$35,110$41,910
Northern Indiana nonmetropolitan area$35,180$17,930$36,270
Northeastern Wisconsin nonmetropolitan area$35,180$25,930$44,080
Evansville, IN$35,160$26,600$47,300
Wichita, KS$35,130$22,620$44,910
Knoxville, TN$35,100$22,170$47,150
Jacksonville, FL$35,080$31,890$43,020
South Illinois nonmetropolitan area$35,080$29,120$44,240
Staunton-Stuarts Draft, VA$35,020$27,040$44,710
Corpus Christi, TX$35,000$25,580$45,310
South Central Kentucky nonmetropolitan area$35,000$25,530$45,900
West Central Illinois nonmetropolitan area$34,990$29,120$43,460
Mississippi$34,930$22,310$44,030
Savannah, GA$34,920$27,680$41,530
Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI$34,920$24,080$44,010
Sioux Falls, SD-MN$34,780$29,890$53,500
Southern Ohio nonmetropolitan area$34,770$26,300$49,640
Chattanooga, TN-GA$34,740$26,010$46,550
Southeast Iowa nonmetropolitan area$34,730$30,640$41,600
Tyler, TX$34,700$23,070$38,820
Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA$34,600$27,960$39,870
Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC$34,600$25,460$39,450
Gulfport-Biloxi, MS$34,600$22,310$46,560
Southern Michigan nonmetropolitan area$34,600$30,160$41,880
South Central Tennessee nonmetropolitan area$34,590$25,420$45,590
Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL$34,540$24,960$42,790
Youngstown-Warren, OH$34,500$29,270$39,220
Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA$34,460$25,430$46,600
Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA$34,390$30,800$42,740
Northeast Iowa nonmetropolitan area$34,380$31,570$38,870
Roanoke, VA$34,350$27,150$41,750
York-Hanover, PA$34,350$27,190$42,690
Dover, DE$34,260$30,800$36,440
Reading, PA$34,160$31,200$46,090
Southern Indiana nonmetropolitan area$34,040$26,610$43,720
Flint, MI$33,930$26,560$44,150
West Northwestern Ohio nonmetropolitan area$33,860$22,490$40,750
Panama City-Panama City Beach, FL$33,780$27,420$51,230
Omaha, NE-IA$33,720$24,960$48,350
Utica-Rome, NY$33,670$31,200$46,750
South Dakota$33,400$29,890$43,210
Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC$33,310$23,570$40,660
Terre Haute, IN$33,290$26,030$39,450
Middle Georgia nonmetropolitan area$33,280$27,390$37,760
Central Missouri nonmetropolitan area$33,220$28,280$42,070
Punta Gorda, FL$33,200$28,570$37,860
Macon-Bibb County, GA$32,920$29,250$43,580
Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV$32,890$32,890$37,110
Virgin Islands$32,870$23,010$40,440
Green Bay, WI$32,780$21,910$42,360
Central Pennsylvania nonmetropolitan area$32,780$26,300$45,250
Mid Michigan nonmetropolitan area$32,760$24,700$40,040
Altoona, PA$32,480$29,280$42,460
Upper East Mississippi nonmetropolitan area$32,020$21,240$36,980
Rome, GA$31,960$20,780$44,130
Alabama$31,870$22,460$39,780
East Kentucky nonmetropolitan area$31,540$24,110$37,090
Huntsville, AL$31,340$22,680$59,380
Watertown-Fort Drum, NY$31,200$31,200$37,630
Elmira, NY$31,200$31,200$36,870
Southwestern Pennsylvania nonmetropolitan area$31,150$20,800$36,350
Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA$31,050$26,740$42,600
Charleston, WV$31,020$23,960$39,250
Baton Rouge, LA$30,940$22,020$42,640
North Northeastern Ohio nonmetropolitan area (noncontiguous)$30,930$22,350$37,940
McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX$30,780$21,840$39,220
Sioux City, IA-NE-SD$30,620$28,790$36,700
New Orleans-Metairie, LA$30,540$22,810$44,080
Laredo, TX$30,490$26,560$43,640
Northwestern Pennsylvania nonmetropolitan area$30,460$25,380$45,250
Mobile, AL$30,430$20,080$36,660
Kansas nonmetropolitan area$30,340$23,550$43,110
Tallahassee, FL$30,160$25,190$46,940
Columbia, SC$30,140$24,960$40,070
West Delta Mississippi nonmetropolitan area$29,900$28,080$50,540
Amarillo, TX$29,790$22,880$44,970
College Station-Bryan, TX$29,740$21,910$37,320
Johnson City, TN$29,620$26,760$43,820
Lafayette, LA$29,590$21,190$37,870
Nebraska$29,570$25,860$48,060
Louisiana$29,520$21,530$42,690
Shreveport-Bossier City, LA$29,510$21,640$40,370
Slidell-Mandeville-Covington, LA$29,270$21,600$40,380
Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA$29,270$21,350$53,340
North Missouri nonmetropolitan area$29,120$29,060$37,280
Brownsville-Harlingen, TX$28,900$23,150$35,270
Monroe, LA$28,400$20,720$47,160
Montgomery, AL$28,240$21,840$41,530
South Georgia nonmetropolitan area$28,190$21,910$39,890
Columbus, GA-AL$28,140$21,000$48,160
Northeast Nebraska nonmetropolitan area$27,950$26,740$56,510
South Nebraska nonmetropolitan area$27,950$24,960$39,970
Lake Charles, LA$27,110$20,920$48,440
Tuscaloosa, AL$26,140$21,240$31,680
Lower East Mississippi nonmetropolitan area$26,090$21,620$38,580
East Georgia nonmetropolitan area$25,610$19,000$44,540
Guam$24,960$21,370$34,670
Central North Carolina nonmetropolitan area$22,640$20,620$40,690
San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR$22,310$20,210$32,870
Puerto Rico$22,010$19,810$32,870
Ponce, PR$21,210$19,760$25,880
Arecibo, PR$20,870$19,770$30,440
Mayaguez, PR$20,820$19,760$35,760
Aguadilla, PR$20,450$19,760$27,620

Frequently Asked Questions

How much does a Couriers and Messengers make?β–Ύ

The median annual salary for a Couriers and Messengers is $38,340, with a typical range of $29,880 – $50,590 depending on experience, location, and employer.

What is the starting salary for a Couriers and Messengers?β–Ύ

Entry-level Couriers and Messengers positions typically start around $29,880 per year. Salaries increase significantly with experience and specialization.

Where do Couriers and Messengerss earn the most?β–Ύ

Couriers and Messengerss tend to earn the highest salaries in major metropolitan areas. Use the salary by city table above to compare compensation across different locations.