Information on the Salary of a Cab Driver in New York
New York was not the highest-paying city for cab drivers and chauffeurs at the time of the last Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) survey in May 2009, but it had more than 16,000 people working as cab and limousine drivers, far more than any other city.
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Salaries
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Cab drivers and chauffeurs in the New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island area of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania made an average, or mean, annual salary of $27,400 in May 2009, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), while PayScale.com reported that the occupation paid $21,265 to $40,123 nationwide, based on a survey of 87 taxi and limousine drivers in 2010.
Hourly Wages
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Calculated hourly, New York city cab drivers and chauffeurs made $13.17 on average, according to the BLS, with the best-paid 10 percent making $19.42 or more per hour and the lowest-paid tenth earning $8.18 per hour or less. PayScale.com said the hourly rates for taxi drivers and chauffeurs across the country were $9.45 to $14.85.
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Ranking
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New York ranked among the top 30 cities in the nation in terms of the average annual salary earned by taxi drivers and chauffeurs in May 2009, according to the BLS, while New York state was the fifth highest-paying state or territory in the United States with an average annual salary of $26,610 for taxi drivers and chauffeurs.
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