Handling toll-ticket processing in a transportation operation, you process the daily ticket records — sorting, capturing, validating, and reconciling toll tickets that document highway, bridge, or tunnel transactions for billing or settlement.
A typical day tends to involve ticket sorting, data capture, validation, and reconciliation — processing the day's ticket records, validating against transaction logs, capturing data for billing or settlement use, reconciling against control totals. Tickets processed and reconciliations balancing are the operating measures.
The friction often lies in the volume of small-record processing — toll-ticket operations run on high-volume transaction records, and the cumulative discipline of accurate processing matters. Variance across employers shapes the work: highway tolling authorities, bridge and tunnel agencies, and turnpike operations each handle different ticket structures and volumes.
This work tends to fit folks who enjoy steady operational work and don't mind high-volume processing. Transportation-operations credentials anchor advancement. The trade-off is the modest pay at the clerk level and the declining role of physical ticket processing as electronic tolling has grown — though the underlying operational discipline transfers to broader transportation-operations work.
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View all Admin & Office roles →Handling toll-ticket processing in a transportation operation, you process the daily ticket records — sorting, capturing, validating, and reconciling toll tickets that document highway, bridge, or tunnel transactions for billing or settlement.
Median pay for a Toll Ticket Clerk is about $47K nationally, with the field ranging roughly from $36K to $65K depending on experience, employer, and metro (BLS).
Core skills for this role include Reading Comprehension, Mathematics, Speaking, Critical Thinking, and Monitoring.
Most people in this role hold an associate's degree.
Employment in this field is projected to decline about 0.4% through 2034, with roughly 417,500 people working in it today (BLS).
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