Career Explorer Transport and logistics
Human edge, steady
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.
In the middle of the pack: more resilient than 58% of the 831 careers we score. AI exposure is low (the Bureau of Labor Statistics rates it moderate), and US jobs are projected to change by +2.0% by 2035, slower than average.
AI struggles with much of this work. Hiring is expected to grow slower than average, or to shrink.
- Median pay (2025)
- $35,150
- Job growth to 2035
- +2.0%
- Openings a year
- 16,400
- People doing it (2025)
- 139,000
- Usual route in
- No formal credential, then short on-the-job training
Where people already use AI for this work
- Provide general assistance to others, such as customers, patrons, or motorists
- Provide information to guests, clients, or customers
From Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025).
Work AI rarely helps with
- Inspect vehicles
- Mark materials or objects for identification
- Collect fares or payments
What the work looks like
- 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.
From O*NET 31.0, US Department of Labor.
What the Bureau of Labor Statistics expects
- Fewer of these jobs, as luxury hotels outsource their parking operations, particularly valet services, to parking management companies.
- Fewer of these jobs, as hospitals outsource their parking operations, including valet services, to parking management companies.
Careers using similar strengths, with a stronger outlook
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Also known as: Parking Attendant, Parking Lot Attendant, Valet Attendant, Valet Parker, Hiker, Parking Cashier, Parking Ramp Attendant, Valet Parking Attendant.
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Sources: US Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections 2025 to 2035; O*NET 31.0; Microsoft Research (2025); Anthropic Economic Index (2026); Eloundou and colleagues (Science, 2024); Felten, Raj and Seamans (2023). How we score. Updated 12 October 2026.