Business & Finance
Couriers and Messengers
Pick up and deliver messages, documents, packages, and other items between offices or departments within an establishment or directly to other business concerns, traveling by foot, bicycle, motorcycle, automobile, or public conveyance.
Median salary
$38,340
Typical range
$30k – $51k
Job outlook
+8% (faster than average)
AI exposure
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Education
Typical entry: No degree required
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Junior Couriers and Messengers
Entry / Junior
$29,880
~2 yrs to advance
Couriers and Messengers
Established
$38,340
~3 yrs to advance
Senior Couriers and Messengers
Senior
$44,465
Key skills
A typical day
- •Deliver and pick up medical records, lab specimens, and medications to and from hospitals and other medical facilities.
- •Obtain signatures and payments, or arrange for recipients to make payments.
- •Record information, such as items received and delivered and recipients' responses to messages.
- •Receive messages or materials to be delivered, and information on recipients, such as names, addresses, telephone numbers, and delivery instructions, communicated via telephone, two-way radio, or in person.
- •Load vehicles with listed goods, ensuring goods are loaded correctly and taking precautions with hazardous goods.
Fields of study
Any field
Top colleges for Business & Finance
Explore all- University of Pennsylvania6% admit · $112,000 grad pay
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology4% admit · $124,000 grad pay
- Harvard University4% admit · $119,000 grad pay
- University of California, Berkeley11% admit · $97,000 grad pay
- New York University12% admit · $84,000 grad pay
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