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Bus Drivers, Transit and Intercity vs Passenger Attendants

Side-by-side · O*NET · BLS · AI-exposure research · Anthropic Economic Index

A factual, source-backed comparison of Bus Drivers, Transit and Intercity and Passenger Attendants on the dimensions both occupations carry. Every figure is a position within an independent published dataset — not a verdict on which job is better, safer, or more “future-proof.”

Bus Drivers, Transit and Intercity Passenger Attendants
Median pay · BLS OEWS
$57,440
$37,560
Employment · BLS OEWS
148,980
25,340
AI exposure (percentile) · task overlap, not automation
64th pct
99th pct

At a glance

Dimension Bus Drivers, Transit and Intercity Passenger Attendants
Median pay $57,440 $37,560
Employment 148,980 25,340
Employment outlook (2024–34) · BLS projection About average (+4.3%) About average (+4.7%)
Annual openings · BLS projection 20,900 4,100
Typical education · O*NET Usually requires a high school diploma or GED, though some occupations may not. Usually requires a high school diploma or GED, though some occupations may not.
AI exposure · published exposure studies Moderate · 64th pct High · 99th pct
Global GenAI gradient · ILO ISCO-08 · via crosswalk — 42nd pct · 23% of tasks
Observed AI use · Anthropic Economic Index — Augmentation-leaning (47.8%)
Mostly remote-capable · Dingel–Neiman — No

Pay and employment are BLS OEWS estimates; outlook and openings are BLS 2024–2034 projections; AI exposure and observed-use figures come from separate research and reflect exposure and usage, not predictions that either job will disappear. Compare like with like.

Skills

Shared: Transportation, Customer and Personal Service, Far Vision, Public Safety and Security, Operations Monitoring, Problem Sensitivity, Near Vision, English Language, Selective Attention, Oral Comprehension, Oral Expression, Time Sharing, Speech Recognition, Speech Clarity, Active Listening, Critical Thinking, Service Orientation, Written Comprehension, Auditory Attention, Speaking, Monitoring, Social Perceptiveness, Deductive Reasoning, Information Ordering, Flexibility of Closure.

Specific to Bus Drivers, Transit and Intercity

  • Operation and Control
  • Control Precision
  • Multilimb Coordination
  • Depth Perception
  • Spatial Orientation
  • Response Orientation
  • Reaction Time
  • Rate Control

Specific to Passenger Attendants

  • Reading Comprehension
  • Coordination
  • Persuasion
  • Inductive Reasoning
  • Negotiation
  • Category Flexibility
  • Active Learning
  • Complex Problem Solving

Knowledge, skills & abilities O*NET rates as important for each occupation. “Shared” are common to both; the columns list what is distinctive to each (top by the order O*NET surfaces).

Tools & technology

Shared: Operating system software .

Specific to Bus Drivers, Transit and Intercity

Specific to Passenger Attendants

Full profiles

This page is a summary. See the complete source-backed profile for Bus Drivers, Transit and Intercity or Passenger Attendants — tasks, the full skill graph, tools, work context, preparation, wages by percentile, industries, AI exposure and the AI work map.

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Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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Singulariki. "Bus Drivers, Transit and Intercity vs Passenger Attendants." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; BLS Employment Projections 2024–2034; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); Microsoft “Working with AI” working-with-ai; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans; ILO / Gmyrek et al. GenAI exposure gradient 2025; IBS O*NET-SOC ↔ ISCO-08 occupation crosswalk 2022; Frey & Osborne (2013) frey-osborne-automation; Dingel & Neiman (2020) dingel-neiman-workathome. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/compare/bus-drivers-transit-and-intercity-vs-passenger-attendants

APA

Singulariki. (2026). Bus Drivers, Transit and Intercity vs Passenger Attendants. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/compare/bus-drivers-transit-and-intercity-vs-passenger-attendants

BibTeX 
@misc{singulariki-bus-drivers-transit-and-intercity-vs-passenger-attendants,
  title  = {Bus Drivers, Transit and Intercity vs Passenger Attendants},
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  year   = {2026},
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  url    = {https://singulariki.com/compare/bus-drivers-transit-and-intercity-vs-passenger-attendants}
}

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