Parking Attendants

Career Overview

Park vehicles or issue tickets for customers in a parking lot or garage. May park or tend vehicles in environments such as a car dealership or rental car facility. May collect fee.

Also Known As

• Parking Attendant
• Parking Lot Attendant
• Valet Attendant
• Valet Parker

Alternate Job Titles

• Attendant
• Auto Hiker
• Auto Lot Attendant (Automotive Lot Attendant)
• Auto Parker
• Automobile Relocation Engineer
• Automotive Porter (Auto Porter)
• Car Chaser
• Car Hiker
• Car Hop
• Car Hopper
• Car Hostler
• Car Jockey
• Car Lot Attendant
• Car Parker
• Car Runner

What You'll Do

In this role, your typical responsibilities include:

• Take numbered tags from customers, locate vehicles, and deliver vehicles, or provide customers with instructions for locating vehicles.
• Inspect vehicles to detect any damage.
• Greet customers and open their car doors.
• Issue ticket stubs or place numbered tags on windshields, log tags or attach tag to customers' keys, and give customers matching tags for locating parked vehicles.
• Perform cash handling tasks, such as making change, balancing and recording cash drawer, or distributing tips.
• Explain and calculate parking charges, collect fees from customers, and respond to customer complaints.
• Park and retrieve automobiles for customers in parking lots, storage garages, or new car lots.

Key Abilities

This career requires key abilities in:

• Far Vision
• Oral Comprehension
• Oral Expression
• Speech Recognition
• Near Vision
• Problem Sensitivity
• Speech Clarity
• Spatial Orientation
• Deductive Reasoning
• Inductive Reasoning

Work Style

People who excel in this career typically demonstrate:

• Dependability
• Cooperation
• Integrity
• Attention to Detail
• Optimism

What Matters in This Career

This career tends to satisfy these work values:

• Relationships
• Independence
• Support
• Achievement
• Working Conditions

Education & Preparation

Typical Education: High School Diploma - or the equivalent (for example, GED)

On-the-Job Training: Anything beyond short demonstration, up to and including 1 month

Education Details: Usually requires a high school diploma or GED, though some occupations may not.

Experience Required: Some occupations may need little or no previous experience; others require several months to a year of experience. For example, landscaping and groundskeeping workers might require very little training or previous experience, while agricultural equipment operators can benefit from on-the job training.

Technology You'll Use

Popular Technologies & Software

• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Office software
• Microsoft Outlook
• Microsoft Word

Tools & Equipment

• Automatic ticket dispensers
• Barrier gates
• Computerized cash registers
• Copy machines
• Desktop computers
• Handheld stop signs
• High power flashlights
• Lanterns
• Light trucks
• Mallets
• Mobile radios
• Multipurpose hammers
• Parking control cones
• Parking validation machines
• Pavement sweepers

Work Environment

• Contact With Others
• Face-to-Face Discussions with Individuals and Within Teams
• Deal With External Customers or the Public in General
• Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls
• In an Enclosed Vehicle or Operate Enclosed Equipment

Salary & Job Market

Salary Percentile	Annual Wage
Entry-Level (10th percentile)	$24,960
Median	$34,600
Top Earners (90th percentile)	$43,840

Workers Employed Nationally: 134,650

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Occupational data sourced from the O*NET OnLine database, developed by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration. Wage data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), 2024.