Jobs / Protective service / 33-3041.00
Parking Enforcement Workers
Patrol assigned area, such as public parking lot or city streets to issue tickets to overtime parking violators and illegally parked vehicles.
- US jobs
- 9,050
- Median wage
- $46,730 a year
- Job family
- Protective service
Can agents do the work of parking enforcement workers?
We read the evidence for the whole job family, Protective service: Unmeasured (no change in 12 months)
No direct benchmark gives a success rate.
0% of this occupation's work, by O*NET work activities, is measured by a direct benchmark.
- 24%Notify others of emergencies or problemsNot measured
- 13%Monitor safety or security of work areas, facilities, or propertiesNot measured
- 8%Issue documentationNot measured
- 7%Replenish inventories of materials, equipment, or productsNot measured
- 7%Gather information from physical or electronic sourcesNot measured
- 6%Monitor environmental conditionsNot measured
- 6%Explain regulations, policies, or proceduresNot measured
- 5%Present information in legal proceedingsNot measured
Unmeasured territory
No benchmark in this atlas covers this work yet.
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- Enter and retrieve information pertaining to vehicle registration, identification, and status, using hand-held computers.
- Maintain close communications with dispatching personnel, using two-way radios or cell phones.
- Patrol an assigned area by vehicle or on foot to ensure public compliance with existing parking ordinance.
- Identify vehicles in violation of parking codes, checking with dispatchers when necessary to confirm identities or to determine whether vehicles need to be booted or towed.
- Write warnings and citations for illegally parked vehicles.
- Appear in court at hearings regarding contested traffic citations.
- Maintain assigned equipment and supplies, such as hand-held citation computers, citation books, rain gear, tire-marking chalk, and street cones.
- Respond to and make radio dispatch calls regarding parking violations and complaints.
- Provide information to the public regarding parking regulations and facilities, and the location of streets, buildings and points of interest.
- Make arrangements for illegally parked or abandoned vehicles to be towed, and direct tow-truck drivers to the correct vehicles.
- Observe and report hazardous conditions, such as missing traffic signals or signs, and street markings that need to be repainted.
- Perform simple vehicle maintenance procedures, such as checking oil and gas, and report mechanical problems to supervisors.
Other job titles for this occupation (16)
Meter Maid · Parking Control Officer · Parking Enforcement Officer (PEO) · Parking Enforcement Technician (Parking Enforcement Tech) · Parking Enforcer · Parking Officer · Parking Patroller · Parking Regulation Enforcement Officer · Parking Technician (Parking Tech) · Ticket Writer · Enforcement Officer · Enforcement Safety Officer · Parking Enforcement Specialist · Parking Meter Attendant · Parking Supervisor · Patroller