Marine transportation majors have a hard time finding a job right out of college. Graduates with a marine transportation degree are entering a strange job market and it can be hard to find your first job in marine transportation. To make finding a job easier, Zippia scanned through 601 marine transportation major resumes to identify the jobs marine transportation majors most prefer.
Highest-Paying Jobs With a Marine Transportation Degree
- Starting Salary$53,000Job openings16,546Top Locations:New York, NY; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA;Job Description:Insurance underwriters decide whether to provide insurance and under what terms. They evaluate insurance applications and determine coverage amounts and premiums.
- Starting Salary$53,000Job openings253,138Top Locations:Job Description:Management analysts, often called management consultants, propose ways to improve the efficiency of an organization. They advise managers on how to make organizations more profitable through reduced costs and increased revenues.
- Starting Salary$44,000Job openings12,871Top Locations:Houston, TX; Lafayette, LA; New Orleans, LA;Job Description:Surveyors make precise measurements to determine property boundaries. They provide data relevant to the shape and contour of the Earth’s surface for engineering, mapmaking, and construction projects.
- Starting Salary$31,000Job openings4,430Top Locations:Job Description:Water transportation workers operate and maintain vessels that take cargo and people over water. The vessels travel to and from foreign ports across the ocean and to domestic ports along the coasts, across the Great Lakes, and along the country’s many inland waterways.
- Starting Salary$30,000Job openings39,449Top Locations:
- Starting Salary$24,000Job openings125,879Top Locations:Job Description:Security guards and gaming surveillance officers patrol and protect property against theft, vandalism, terrorism, and illegal activity.
- Starting Salary$22,000Job openings301Top Locations:Paducah, KY; Islamorada Village of Islands, FL; Key West, FL;Job Description:Water transportation workers operate and maintain vessels that take cargo and people over water. The vessels travel to and from foreign ports across the ocean and to domestic ports along the coasts, across the Great Lakes, and along the country’s many inland waterways.
- Starting Salary$22,000Job openings383Top Locations:Norfolk, VA; Charleston, SC; Edison, NJ;Job Description:Water transportation workers operate and maintain vessels that take cargo and people over water. The vessels travel to and from foreign ports across the ocean and to domestic ports along the coasts, across the Great Lakes, and along the country’s many inland waterways.
- Starting Salary$22,000Job openings422Top Locations:Houston, TX; Houma, LA; Galliano, LA;Job Description:Water transportation workers operate and maintain vessels that take cargo and people over water. The vessels travel to and from foreign ports across the ocean and to domestic ports along the coasts, across the Great Lakes, and along the country’s many inland waterways.
- Starting Salary$21,000Job openings500Top Locations:Paducah, KY; Houma, LA; New Orleans, LA;Job Description:Water transportation workers operate and maintain vessels that take cargo and people over water. The vessels travel to and from foreign ports across the ocean and to domestic ports along the coasts, across the Great Lakes, and along the country’s many inland waterways.
