Iowa·Transportation and Material Moving Occupations·SOC 53-7199

Best Material Moving Worker, All Other programs in Iowa, ranked by enrollment

All material moving workers not listed.

1 schools in Iowa run programs that feed this job, graduating 6 people a year. The job pays a median of $50,960 in Iowa across about 40 jobs (BLS OEWS May 2025).

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Graduates / yr
6
in Iowa
Median pay · Iowa
$50,960
BLS OEWS May 2025
Jobs in state
40
people employed
Schools
1
with a feeder program
Avg graduation rate
58%
across those schools
Median net price
per year, IPEDS

Fields of study in Iowa that lead to this job

Grouped at the 4-digit CIP level. Numbers are graduates per year in this state.

1 programs in Iowa that lead to this job

Ranked by graduates per year in Iowa (IPEDS completions). Graduate earnings and debt are national College Scorecard figures reported at the 4-digit CIP level, so specializations within one field share a figure. Each program also links to its own Iowa page.

Degree programs that lead to this occupation, ranked by graduates per year
#ProgramGraduates / yrShare of pipelineSchoolsGrad earnings (1 yr)Median debt
1
CIP 49.0202In Iowa
6
100.0%
1$42,812$7,572

Top 1 schools in Iowa

Ranked by graduates per year into this job. Graduate earnings are reported for 1 of the 1 schools in this state.

Schools ranked by graduates per year into this occupation
#SchoolGraduates / yrTop feeder programGrad earnings (1 yr)Grad rateNet priceAcceptance
1Northwest Iowa Community College
Sheldon, IA Public · 1 feeder programs
6Construction/Heavy Equipment/Earthmoving Equipment Operation$60,94358%

All 1 schools in Iowa

Every school in Iowa with a program that feeds this job, ordered by graduates per year. Earnings are shown for the ranked schools above; open a school profile for the rest.

All schools in Iowa that feed this occupation
SchoolCityControlGraduates / yrFeeder programs
Northwest Iowa Community CollegeSheldonPublic61

What material moving workers, all other earn in Iowa

What people already working in this job earn (BLS OEWS May 2025). Not graduate earnings.

Median annual in Iowa
$50,960
Mean annual
$54,810
Jobs in state
40
What the range looks like
10th pct$34,400Median$50,96090th pct$81,550
Versus the national median
+21.9%

U.S. median $41,800. Iowa pays above the national figure.

Job concentration
0.18×

1.00× means the state has its expected share of these jobs.

Job outlook

Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections, 2024 to 2034.

Projected growth 2024–34
+4.3%
About as fast as average
Openings per year
3,100
new jobs plus replacements
Employment change
1,200
27,700 → 28,900
Typical entry education
No formal educational credential
Plus short-term on-the-job training

Growth and openings are national. The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish employment projections at state level, so these figures describe the occupation across the whole U.S., not this state alone.

How to get in

The full skills, tools, and day-to-day breakdown lives on the national Material Moving Workers, All Other page.

How to become a Material Moving Worker, All Other

Typical entry education
No formal educational credential
On-the-job training
Short-term on-the-job training

The same job in other states

Where else this occupation employs the most people, and what it pays there.

Every major mapped to this job

The official federal mapping behind the rankings above.

All 1 majors mapped to Material Moving Workers, All Other1 of them graduated someone in the latest IPEDS year. NCES CIP 2020 → SOC 2018 crosswalk.+
  • 49.0202Construction/Heavy Equipment/Earthmoving Equipment Operation

Common questions

Answers for people weighing material moving workers, all other programs in Iowa.

What degree do you need to become a Material Moving Worker, All Other?+

No formal educational credential is the typical entry-level education BLS reports for this occupation. The most common program people actually graduate from is Construction/Heavy Equipment/Earthmoving Equipment Operation, which awarded 6 degrees in Iowa in 2024-25, 100.0% of everyone graduating from a program that feeds this career.

Which college majors lead to becoming a Material Moving Worker, All Other?+

The NCES CIP-to-SOC crosswalk maps 1 programs to this occupation. The largest are Ground Transportation. Together they graduate about 6 people a year in Iowa.

How much do material moving workers, all other earn in Iowa?+

The median is $50,960 a year (BLS OEWS May 2025). That is 21.9% above the U.S. median of $41,800. This is pay for people already working in the occupation, not the same thing as graduate earnings one year after finishing a degree.

Is demand for material moving workers, all other growing?+

BLS projects a +4.3% change in employment between 2024 and 2034, about as fast as average, with roughly 3,100 openings a year nationally once retirements and job changes are counted.

How many schools offer programs for this career in Iowa?+

1 institutions in Iowa reported graduates from at least one of the 1 programs that feed this occupation in IPEDS 2024-25. Rankings on this page use graduates per year, because the federal data publishes no enrollment count by program.

Do you need training or experience beyond a degree?+

BLS lists 'None' for related work experience and 'Short-term on-the-job training' for on-the-job training typically needed to reach competency.

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About the data on this page

Rankings use IPEDS completions 2024–25, degrees awarded per year. That is the closest federal measure of how many people a program puts into a career, because no federal dataset publishes enrollment by program. Wages and employment come from BLS OEWS May 2025, growth and openings from BLS Employment Projections 2024-34, and which majors lead to which jobs from the NCES CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 crosswalk. Occupation descriptions, tasks, skills and tools are O*NET 30.3 (CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor/ETA).

  • BLS Occupational Employment & Wage Statistics

    May 2025

    Wages, employment counts, location quotients and metro breakdowns.

  • BLS Employment Projections

    2024–34

    Projected growth, annual openings and typical entry-level education.

  • IPEDS Completions

    2024-25 (provisional)

    Graduates per year by program and institution — the ranking metric.

  • College Scorecard, Field of Study

    2020-21 cohorts

    Median graduate earnings one year after completion, and median debt.

  • Census Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes

    latest available

    Graduate earnings 1/5/10 years out, where the state participates.

  • NCES CIP 2020 and the CIP-to-SOC 2018 crosswalk

    CIP 2020 / SOC 2018

    Which college programs officially lead to this occupation.

  • O*NET Database 30.3

    30.3

    Tasks, skills, knowledge, tools, job zone and alternate job titles.

    Official source →CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor / ETA

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