What the work involves, what it pays, and grounded tasks, skills, tools, and experience you can choose from.
Also called civilian pay tech, civilian pay technician, enforcement officer and enforcement safety officer.
$46,730
Median pay a year
9,050
People do this work
6
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A Parking Enforcement Worker resume, filled in
Common skills that can help you remember what you used on the job.
Locating suspicious objects
Relaying incident information
Using databases
Investigating complaints
Monitoring vehicle movement
Patrolling properties
Monitoring environmental conditions
Evaluating employee performance
Blocking physical access
Confiscating prohibited items
Directing vehicle traffic
Maintaining mechanical equipment
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Parking Enforcement Worker
Summary
Parking enforcement worker patrolling areas to check for parking rule violations, issuing tickets for illegal parking, and providing information about parking rules to the public
Experience
Parking Enforcement Worker
Where you worked
Month Year to Month Year
Patrolled assigned areas by vehicle or on foot to check for parking rule violations
Wrote warnings and citations for vehicles parked illegally
Used hand-held computers to enter and retrieve vehicle registration and status information
Responded to radio dispatch calls about parking violations and complaints
Maintained equipment and supplies like citation computers, citation books, and tire-marking chalk
Provided information to the public about parking rules and locations of streets and buildings
Marked tires of parked vehicles with chalk to check for time limit violations
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What to put on a Parking Enforcement Worker resume
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Entered vehicle informationPatrolled area for parking rulesWrote warnings for illegal parkingAppeared in court for citationsMaintained equipment and suppliesResponded to parking violation calls
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Entered vehicle information accurately to maintain up-to-date records of parking compliance.
Wrote warnings for illegally parked vehicles, ensuring compliance with local parking regulations.
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Add how often you entered vehicle information.
The line
Entered vehicle information several times each shift to keep records of parking compliance up-to-date
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Several times each shiftDaily for multiple vehiclesMost vehicles in the area
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Show what improved once the warnings were issued.
The line
Wrote warnings for illegally parked vehicles, ensuring compliance with local parking regulations.
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Fewer repeat violations in the areaSafer parking conditions overall
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The work itself
What a Parking Enforcement Worker does
The public record of what this job is, in one paragraph.
Patrol assigned area, such as public parking lot or city streets to issue tickets to overtime parking violators and illegally parked vehicles.
What it pays
How much does a Parking Enforcement 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
$39,870
Median
$46,730
75th percentile
$60,490
About 9,050 people do this work in the United States.
parking manager, parking meter attendant, parking officer, parking regulation enforcement officer, parking services officer, parking supervisor, parking technician, patroller, ramp service employee, security patrol officer, ticket writer, traffic control attendant, traffic control officer.
What you can already claim
Starting a Parking Enforcement Worker resume with no experience
Below are the tasks a Parking Enforcement Worker job is made of. Choose the ones you have really done. There is no wrong answer here, and you can change any of it later.
Which of these tasks have you actually done?
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Parking Enforcement Worker
Already yours: Locating suspicious objects, Relaying incident information, Using databases
4 of the 12 tasks this job is made of
Median pay
$46,730 a year
What you have not done yet. Investigating complaints, Monitoring vehicle movement, Monitoring environmental conditions
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This page is about the occupation Parking Enforcement 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.