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Also called bicycle taxi driver, cab driver, driver and hack driver.
$42,100
Median pay a year
41,050
People do this work
6
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Taxi Driver
Summary
Taxi driver transporting passengers to various locations, collecting fares, communicating with dispatchers, and performing routine vehicle maintenance
Experience
Taxi Driver
Where you worked
Month Year to Month Year
Drove taxicabs to transport passengers to their destinations
Collected fares or vouchers from passengers and issued receipts as needed
Communicated with dispatchers by radio or phone to receive service requests
Determined fares using taximeters and announced them to passengers
Picked up passengers at taxi stands or high-traffic areas
Provided assistance to passengers with entering and exiting vehicles
Performed routine vehicle maintenance, such as checking tire pressure and adding fuel
Skills
Core Skills
Cleaning vehicles and components, Driving passenger vehicles, Maintaining vehicles in good condition, Providing transportation information, Calculating costs of goods or services, Preparing accident reports, Receiving performance instructions, Reporting vehicle malfunctions, Assisting passengers with boarding
Checking & Planning
Inspecting motor vehicles
Education
High School Diploma Your school, Year
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Collected fares from passengersTalked with dispatchers for requestsCompleted accident reports when neededDrove taxi to transport passengersHelped passengers with their luggageGave information about local places
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Collected fares from passengers and issued receipts as needed
Completed accident reports to document incidents and ensure safety
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Add how often you collected fares each shift
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Collected fares from passengers and issued receipts a few times each shift
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A few times each shiftMost rides during the daySeveral fares every hour
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Completed accident reports to document incidents and ensure safety
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Fewer incidents reported after completionSafer driving conditions followedBetter communication with the team
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Cleaning vehicles and components
Driving passenger vehicles
Maintaining vehicles in good condition
Providing transportation information
Inspecting motor vehicles
Calculating costs of goods or services
Preparing accident reports
Receiving performance instructions
Reporting vehicle malfunctions
Assisting passengers with boarding
Collecting fares from customers
The work itself
What a Taxi Driver does
The public record of what this job is, in one paragraph.
Drive a motor vehicle to transport passengers on an unplanned basis and charge a fare, usually based on a meter.
What it pays
How much does a Taxi Driver make?
Annual pay across the United States. The middle figure is the median: half earn less than that, and half earn more.
25th percentile
$37,790
Median
$42,100
75th percentile
$60,960
About 41,050 people do this work in the United States.
This page is about the occupation Taxi Drivers. 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. Rung is an independent service and is not affiliated with or endorsed by either agency. How Rung handles accuracy is on the accuracy page, and the full data credits are on the credits page.