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Patient transporter salary

Open patient transporter jobs post a median of $20.75 an hour, with the middle half paying $18.75–$23.50: about $43,200 a year full time. Measured from 215 jobs at 82 employers that state their pay, read from each employer's own job board.

$20.75
Median posted /hr
$19–$24
Middle half /hr
$43,200
A year, full time
estimate, 2,080 hours
$18.41
BLS median /hr
May 2025

The jobs themselves: Patient transporter jobs

What patient transporters are paid

Each bar counts the open jobs posting an hourly rate in its step of pay (a range at its midpoint). The middle half of employers' rates is in the darker color.

Posted hourly rates of 215 open jobs. The chart spans the 2nd to the 98th percentile; the lowest rate posted is $13, the highest $45.54.

Posted on open jobs

$18.75–$23.50/hr

Middle half of 132 employer rates (each employer's advertised range once), median $20.75. 47% of the 458 open patient transporter jobs state an hourly rate.

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Patient transporter pay by employer

What each employer posts for patient transporters, the employers with the most jobs stating pay first. An employer with at least 5 such jobs has a page of its own with every range it posts.

EmployerMedian postedPosted rangeJobs stating pay
Beth Israel Lahey Health$20$16.50–$27.4422
Baptist Health South Florida$16.75$16–$20.2419
Inspira Health$20.25$16.59–$23.708
Atlantic Health$23.75$18.50–$28.887
Boston Medical Center$22.25$17.92–$26.637
Providence$25.75$14.20–$38.016
Sharp HealthCare$27.25$25–$28.535
UMass Memorial Health$25.25$15–$31.555
UPMC$24.75$18.19–$30.085
Mayo Clinic$23.25$20–$29.195
Mass General Brigham$21$17.71–$33.375
Hackensack Meridian Health$17.50$17.625
Catholic Health (Long Island)$26$25.59–$29.774
Cedars-Sinai$25$24–$33.044
Advocate Health$23.50$18.85–$29.704
Adventist HealthCare$20.50$18–$22.794
CommonSpirit Health$17.50$15–$28.134
Brown University Health$22$18–$27.693
MerrimackHealth$21.75$15.92–$26.823
ChristianaCare$21$20.903
Northwestern Medicine$19.75$17.05–$23.023
RWJBarnabas Health$18.50$16.56–$20.663
AtlantiCare$17.50$15.60–$25.593
GBMC HealthCare$17.50$15–$203
Mount Sinai Health System$25.75$24.79–$26.662
Fairview Health Services$25$20.83–$29.402
Institute on Aging$23.50$23–$242
South Shore Health$23.25$19.10–$27.302
Sentara Health$21.50$17.54–$25.582
Valley Health System (New Jersey)$21.25$18.82–$23.532
CentraState Healthcare System$20.75$16–$25.602
Ascension$20.50$16.89–$23.432
UW Health$20.25$16.78–$22.652
AdventHealth$20$15.15–$25.352
KidsPeace Childrens Hospital$20$202
New Directions Youth & Family Services$19.50$19.04–$202
New View Alliance$19.50$19.04–$202
Carilion Clinic$18.75$15–$22.652
Valley Health (Virginia)$18.75$17–$20.402
OSF HealthCare$18$17–$18.892

Median of each employer's own jobs (a range at its midpoint), and the lowest and highest rate it posts. Jobs stating pay link to the employer's open jobs.

Patient transporter pay by state

States where at least 8 open jobs from 3 employers state an hourly rate, highest median first. Each opens the state's own page, with its towns and employers.

StateMedian postedMiddle halfBLS medianJobs
California$25.75$24.25–$28$24 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)20
Minnesota$23.25$21.25–$24.75$21.42 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)10
New York$22$19.50–$25.75$22.40 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)20
Massachusetts$21.75$20.50–$22.50$18.74 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)44
New Jersey$20.25$17.75–$20.75$18.59 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)30
Illinois$19.75$19.50–$21.25$18.97 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)12
Maryland$18.25$17.50–$20$18.37 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)10
Florida$18$16.50–$18.50$17.03 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)23

Median and middle half of employers' rates in the state. BLS medians are for the occupation's main SOC code in the state (May 2025).

Night shift patient transporter pay

Where one employer posts both night and other patient transporter jobs in the same state (4 such employers and states), the night jobs post the same base rate as the rest (the median gap is $0): most employers state their night differential apart from the base pay, so check the posting for it.

Employer, stateNight jobs, medianOther jobs, median
Beth Israel Lahey Health, MA$20 (1)$20 (20)
Hackensack Meridian Health, NJ$17.50 (1)$17.50 (4)
Sharp HealthCare, CA$26.25 (1)$27.25 (4)
Adventist HealthCare, MD$20.50 (1)$20.50 (3)

A job counts as a night job when its title names nights ("Nights", "NOC", "7p-7a"). Jobs in brackets.

Best-paid open patient transporter jobs

The open jobs posting the highest hourly rates tonight, at most two from one employer.

Every open job: Patient transporter jobs

What BLS measures

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics surveys what people employed in the occupation earn, at every level of experience. A posting advertises what a new hire is offered, so the two measure different things.

Hourly wages, BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, national. Each figure opens its BLS page.
BLS occupation10th pct25th pctMedian75th pct90th pctEmployed
Orderlies (31-1132)$15.50 (source: BLS OEWS, Orderlies, opens in a new tab)$17.10 (source: BLS OEWS, Orderlies, opens in a new tab)$18.41 (source: BLS OEWS, Orderlies, opens in a new tab)$21.42 (source: BLS OEWS, Orderlies, opens in a new tab)$24.33 (source: BLS OEWS, Orderlies, opens in a new tab)52,440 (source: BLS OEWS, Orderlies, opens in a new tab)

The posted median ($20.75) is $2.34 above the BLS median ($18.41 (source: BLS OEWS May 2025, Orderlies, opens in a new tab)). Posted ranges run from a new hire's rate to an experienced one's, and their midpoint is counted here.

Patient transporter salary: common questions

How much does a patient transporter make an hour?

Open patient transporter jobs on CareJobs.Now that state an hourly rate post a median of $20.75, with the middle half between $18.75–$23.50 (215 jobs from 82 employers, each employer's advertised range counted once). Postings advertise a base rate, usually before shift differentials and bonuses. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics measured a median of $18.41/hr ($38,290 a year) for orderlies in May 2025.

How much does a patient transporter make a year?

At the posted median of $20.75 an hour, full time (2,080 hours a year) comes to about $43,200, and the middle half to $39,000 to $48,900. That is arithmetic on the hourly rate, not a salary any job states.

Which states pay patient transporters the most?

By the median hourly rate open jobs post: California ($25.75), Minnesota ($23.25) and New York ($22). The lowest: Florida ($18), Maryland ($18.25) and Illinois ($19.75). Each state's page breaks its pay down by town and employer.

Which employers pay patient transporters the most?

Among employers stating a rate on at least 5 open jobs: Sharp HealthCare ($27.25), Providence ($25.75) and UMass Memorial Health ($25.25). The employer table lists the 40 employers with the most jobs stating pay.

Do night shift patient transporters earn more?

Not in the base rate employers post: where one employer posts both night and other patient transporter jobs in the same state (4 such employers and states), the median gap is $0. Most state their night differential separately in the posting.

Where do these figures come from?

From the pay CareJobs.Now's open jobs state, read every night from each employer's own job board: 215 of 458 open patient transporter jobs (47%) state an hourly rate. No pay is estimated for a job that states none, "up to" ceilings and weekly travel rates are left out, and each employer's advertised range counts once in the median, so no single employer sets it.

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Sources and method

Only pay a job states is used: a plain hourly or yearly figure or range in US dollars, read from the job's own posting. A range counts at its midpoint. In the median and the middle half each employer's advertised range counts once, so an employer posting one range in many towns does not set the figure; an employer's own figures count its jobs one by one. "Up to" ceilings, weekly travel rates and rates under a third or over three times the occupation's median are left out. The yearly estimate is the hourly rate times 2,080 hours (40 a week). A job counts under its occupation and every occupation above it, and under every state it is open in. A page exists while at least 8 jobs from 3 employers state a rate. BLS figures are as published.
  1. CareJobs.Now job board: the pay open jobs state, read nightly from each employer's own careers site, published October 24, 2026
  2. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025: Orderlies (SOC 31-1132), published May 15, 2026
  3. BLS OEWS May 2025: Orderlies by state, published May 15, 2026
  4. BLS Employment Projections 2025-2035: Orderlies (Occupational Outlook Handbook), published August 27, 2026

Cite this page

CareJobs.Now. (2026). Patient transporter salary. Data as of October 24, 2026. https://carejobs.now/salaries/patient-transporter

How the board counts