# Transportation and Warehousing

> Sector (NAICS 48-49) — The Sector as a Whole

The Transportation and Warehousing sector includes industries providing transportation of passengers and cargo, warehousing and storage for goods, scenic and sightseeing transportation, and support activities related to modes of transportation.  Establishments in these industries use transportation equipment or transportation-related facilities as a productive asset.  The type of equipment depends on the mode of transportation.  The modes of transportation are air, rail, water, road, and pipeline.

The Transportation and Warehousing sector distinguishes three basic types of activities: subsectors for each mode of transportation, a subsector for warehousing and storage, and a subsector for establishments providing support activities for transportation.  In addition, there are subsectors for establishments that provide passenger transportation for scenic and sightseeing purposes, postal services, and courier services.

A separate subsector for support activities is established in the sector because, first, support activities for transportation are inherently multimodal, such as freight transportation arrangement, or have multimodal aspects.  Secondly, there are production process similarities among the support activity industries.

One of the support activities identified in the Support Activities for Transportation subsector is the routine repair and maintenance of transportation equipment (e.g., aircraft at an airport, railroad rolling stock at a railroad terminal, or ships at a harbor or port facility).  Such establishments do not perform complete overhauling or rebuilding of transportation equipment (i.e., periodic restoration of transportation equipment to original design specifications) or transportation equipment conversion (i.e., major modification to systems).  An establishment that primarily performs factory (or shipyard) overhauls, rebuilding, or conversions of aircraft, railroad rolling stock, or ships is classified in Subsector 336, Transportation Equipment Manufacturing, according to the type of equipment.

Many of the establishments in this sector often operate on networks, with physical facilities, labor forces, and equipment spread over an extensive geographic area.

Warehousing establishments in this sector are distinguished from merchant wholesaling in that the warehouse establishments do not sell the goods.

Excluded from this sector are establishments primarily engaged in providing travel agent, travel arrangement, and reservation services that support transportation establishments, hotels, other businesses, and government agencies.  These establishments are classified in Sector 56, Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services.  Establishments primarily engaged in providing rental and leasing of transportation equipment without operator are classified in Subsector 532, Rental and Leasing Services.  Establishments primarily engaged in providing medical care with transportation are classified in Sector 62, Health Care and Social Assistance.


- **NAICS code:** 48-49
- **Canonical URL:** https://singulariki.com/industries/48-49
- **Frame:** "AI exposure" means task overlap, not jobs lost. Figures aggregate over the occupations employed in this industry, each traced to a named public dataset.

## Scale & pay

- **Employment (BLS OEWS, May 2024):** 7,391,940 across 421 occupations.
- **Typical annual wage (employment-weighted median):** $56,255.

## AI exposure

- **AI task-overlap (employment-weighted across 368 occupations):** 17th percentile (Low) — Eloundou GPT-overlap + Felten AIOE; task overlap, not automation.

## Largest occupations

- Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-53-3032-00) — 1,183,530 employed; $59,200
- Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-53-7062-00) — 997,400 employed; $43,190
- Light Truck Drivers (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-53-3033-00) — 480,180 employed; $47,390
- Stockers and Order Fillers (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-53-7065-00) — 417,100 employed; $41,840
- Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-53-7051-00) — 391,620 employed; $47,900
- Postal Service Mail Carriers (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-43-5052-00) — 336,040 employed; $57,490
- First-Line Supervisors of Transportation and Material Moving Workers, Except Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors — 201,410 employed; $67,910
- Bus Drivers, School (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-53-3051-00) — 142,760 employed; $49,200
- Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-43-5071-00) — 137,140 employed; $45,050
- Flight Attendants (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-53-2031-00) — 128,630 employed; $67,350
- General and Operations Managers (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-11-1021-00) — 119,760 employed; $99,590
- Postal Service Mail Sorters, Processors, and Processing Machine Operators (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-43-5053-00) — 111,920 employed; $56,530
- Customer Service Representatives (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-43-4051-00) — 107,050 employed; $45,210
- Shuttle Drivers and Chauffeurs (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-53-3053-00) — 101,830 employed; $37,940
- Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-43-4181-00) — 97,650 employed; $42,500
- First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-43-1011-00) — 95,390 employed; $77,430
- Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-53-2011-00) — 93,290 employed
- Dispatchers, Except Police, Fire, and Ambulance (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-43-5032-00) — 90,490 employed; $50,030
- Packers and Packagers, Hand (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-53-7064-00) — 89,890 employed; $43,170
- Cargo and Freight Agents (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-43-5011-00) — 89,080 employed; $49,870

## Sources

- **O*NET** (30.3) — U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development. https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html
- **BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS)** (May 2024) — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. https://www.bls.gov/oes/
- **Census NAICS** (2022) — U.S. Census Bureau. https://www.census.gov/naics/
- **Anthropic Economic Index** (v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27)) — Anthropic. https://www.anthropic.com/economic-index
- **“GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.)** (arXiv 2303.10130) — OpenAI / academic. https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.10130
- **AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE)** (Felten, Raj & Seamans) — academic. https://github.com/AIOE-Data/AIOE

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_Generated from Singulariki's joined dataset; data snapshot 2026-06-03T03:26:54.804143+00:00. https://singulariki.com/industries/48-49_