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Taxi Driver resume

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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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  • 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

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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

Hands-On Work
Cleaning vehicles and components, Driving passenger vehicles
Technical Skills
Maintaining vehicles in good condition, Preparing accident reports
Working With People
Providing transportation information, Receiving performance instructions, Reporting vehicle malfunctions, Assisting passengers with boarding
Checking & Planning
Inspecting motor vehicles, Calculating costs of goods or services

Education

  • High School Diploma
    Your school, Year

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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

The line

Collected fares from passengers and issued receipts a few times each shift

Add how often you collected fares each shift

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A few times each shiftMost rides during the daySeveral fares every hour

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Show what improved once the reports were completed

The line

Completed accident reports to document incidents and ensure safety

Show what improved once the reports were completed

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Fewer incidents reported after completionSafer driving conditions followedBetter communication with the team

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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.

What it pays in each state
State25th percentileMedian75th percentile
AZ$34,580$36,120$46,080
CA$39,260$39,260$39,260
CO$38,580$43,490$45,360
FL$28,030$28,060$28,070
GA$32,910$33,430$39,610
IL$34,910$36,770$43,410
KS$25,310$26,970$37,440
KY$28,670$33,850$36,760
MA$34,800$35,270$35,370
MD$34,270$36,900$39,680
ME$36,610$36,960$47,160
MI$34,790$36,670$37,460
MN$30,860$35,710$37,600
MO$32,830$37,560$38,020
NC$35,690$36,950$41,600
NH$28,390$41,510$41,600
NV$39,170$44,800$65,670
NY$36,030$41,570$42,100
OR$34,870$37,120$39,710
PA$31,770$35,480$37,850
PR$24,720$31,620$36,100
TX$37,700$48,740$60,470
UT$26,810$36,390$36,990
VA$26,580$28,490$45,070
WI$24,630$27,820$28,990

Other names

Other names for this job

bicycle taxi driver, cab driver, driver, hack driver, limo driver, limousine driver, lyft driver, pedicab driver, rickshaw driver, rideshare cab driver, shuttle driver, taxi cab driver.

More names for this work

taxicab driver, transportation driver, van driver, wheelchair van driver, hacker, transportation aide, transporter, van operator, van owner.

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  • Taxi Driver

    Already yours: Cleaning vehicles and components, Driving passenger vehicles, Maintaining vehicles in good condition

    4 of the 11 tasks this job is made of

    Median pay$42,100 a year

    What you have not done yet. Inspecting motor vehicles, Preparing accident reports, Receiving performance instructions

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Taxi Driver

  • Cleaning vehicles and components
  • Driving passenger vehicles
  • Maintaining vehicles in good condition
  • Providing transportation information

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Where these numbers come from

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. How Rung handles accuracy is on the accuracy page, and the full data credits are on the credits page.