Employees offering cargo-handling services are among the lowest paid workers at domestic airports, and for the past two years, these workers have experienced below-average wage growth.
In “Course Correction: Reversing Wage Erosion to Restore Good Jobs at American Airports,” published by researchers at UC-Berkeley, the authors found that these wages fell by 14 percent from 1991 to 2011. The average worker in this category (grouped with baggage handlers as “Other Airport Operations”) earned $545 a week in 2011. The authors measured an 18-percent increase in real wages averaged out across all other industries during the time period.
Domestic cargo handlers see low wages
