What the work involves, what it pays, and grounded tasks, skills, tools, and experience you can choose from.
Also called highway maintenance crew worker, highway worker, maintenance worker and road maintenance worker.
$50,260
Median pay a year
154,960
People do this work
6
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A Highway Maintenance Worker resume, filled in
Common skills that can help you remember what you used on the job.
Removing debris and vegetation
Installing fencing or barriers
Directing vehicle traffic
Inspecting completed work
Inspecting industrial equipment
Measuring work site dimensions
Mixing needed substances
Cleaning equipment and facilities
Pouring materials
Spreading sand
Compacting materials
Spreading concrete or mixtures
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Highway Maintenance Worker
Summary
Highway maintenance worker maintaining highways, roads, and runways by repairing pavement, guardrails, and markers, while also clearing debris and managing traffic around work areas
Experience
Highway Maintenance Worker
Where you worked
Month Year to Month Year
Set out signs and cones around work areas to divert traffic
Flagged motorists to warn them of obstacles or repair work ahead
Drove trucks to transport crews and equipment to work sites
Cleaned and cleared debris from culverts, catch basins, and ditches
Erected and repaired guardrails, highway markers, and warning signals using hand tools and power tools
Drove heavy equipment to sweep debris, mow grass, and remove snow and ice
Performed preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment
Skills
Hands-On Work
Removing debris and vegetation, Installing fencing or barriers, Directing vehicle traffic, Mixing needed substances, Cleaning equipment and facilities, Pouring materials, Spreading sand
Checking & Planning
Inspecting completed work, Inspecting industrial equipment, Measuring work site dimensions
Core Skills
Driver's license
Education
High School Diploma Your school, Year
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What to put on a Highway Maintenance Worker resume
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Set out signs and conesFlagged drivers for safetyMaintained vehicles and equipmentDrove trucks to job sitesCleaned debris from drainsRemoved litter from roadways
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Set out signs and cones to divert traffic and ensure safety around work areas.
Maintained vehicles and heavy equipment to ensure reliable operation.
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Show what improved once the signs and cones were set out.
The line
Set out signs and cones to divert traffic, leading to fewer accidents in the work zone
Show what improved once the signs and cones were set out.
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Fewer accidents in the work zoneDrivers followed detours more smoothlyTraffic flow improved during repairs
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Add how often you performed maintenance on the vehicles and equipment.
The line
Maintained vehicles and heavy equipment to ensure reliable operation.
Add how often you performed maintenance on the vehicles and equipment.
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Every week before shiftsRegularly throughout the monthAs needed based on usage
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The work itself
What a Highway Maintenance Worker does
The public record of what this job is, in one paragraph.
Maintain highways, municipal and rural roads, airport runways, and rights-of-way. Duties include patching broken or eroded pavement and repairing guard rails, highway markers, and snow fences. May also mow or clear brush from along road, or plow snow from roadway.
What it pays
How much does a Highway Maintenance Worker make?
Annual pay across the United States. The middle figure is the median: half earn less than that, and half earn more.
25th percentile
$43,500
Median
$50,260
75th percentile
$61,040
About 154,960 people do this work in the United States.
Starting a Highway Maintenance Worker resume with no experience
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Highway Maintenance Worker
Already yours: Removing debris and vegetation, Installing fencing or barriers, Inspecting completed work
4 of the 12 tasks this job is made of
Median pay
$50,260 a year
What you have not done yet. Directing vehicle traffic, Measuring work site dimensions, Pouring materials
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This page is about the occupation Highway Maintenance Workers. What this job involves and what it is made of come from O*NET 30.3, the US Department of Labor's occupation database, refreshed July 2026; Rung writes those records into the plain sentences you see. Pay comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS release for 2025. How Rung handles accuracy is on the accuracy page, and the full data credits are on the credits page.