Which pays more, Delivery Driver or Electrician?

The median advertised salary for each is in the table above, along with the 25th and 75th percentiles so you can see the spread rather than one number.

Which has more openings?

Both counts are live and computed at the same moment, so the comparison is like for like.

Postings are read from company career systems continuously; the age row shows how old the listings themselves are.

Side by side

Delivery Driver vs Electrician

Pay is effectively the same — the medians sit within 3.2% apart. There is 1.8× more demand for Electrician. Listings for Delivery Driver move faster — median age 43 days against 85.

Comparison

Side by side

Measure	Delivery Driver	Electrician	Gap
Open postings	21,608	38,888	-17,280
Posted this week	590	3,153
Median salary	$65,000	$63,000	+$2k
25th percentile	$51.5k	$50k
75th percentile	$80.5k	$78k
Salary disclosed	3.0%	4.7%
Remote share	4.3%	4.0%	+0.3pp
Median age of posting	43d	85d
Open over 60 days	40.9%	51.2%
Visa sponsorship	13.2%	16.7%

Pay

Pay distribution

Delivery Driver

$29k$112k

Electrician

$28k$109k

Freshness

How old the listings are

Delivery Driver

just posted43d median90d+

Electrician

just posted85d median90d+

Demand

What each side asks for

Delivery Driver — technologies

Python

72.0%

Tableau

65.8%

dbt

59.6%

Docker

53.4%

Terraform

47.2%

Spark

41.0%

Figma

34.8%

Electrician — technologies

React

72.0%

dbt

65.8%

Docker

59.6%

Airflow

53.4%

Kotlin

47.2%

TypeScript

41.0%

JavaScript

34.8%

Delivery Driver — employers

Ironbark Manufacturing

9.4%

Lakeshore Hospitality

8.7%

Pinewood Education

8.0%

Quarry Analytics

7.2%

Beacon Robotics

6.5%

Northwind Systems

5.8%

Tidewater Insurance

5.1%

Electrician — employers

Halcyon Energy

9.4%

Northwind Systems

8.7%

Beacon Robotics

8.0%

Kestrel Health

7.2%

Pinewood Education

6.5%

Solstice Biotech

5.8%

Tidewater Insurance

5.1%

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Both sides are counted the same way on the same day, so the gap is comparable even where the absolute numbers move. Salary figures use only postings that publish a range — the disclosure rate is in the table because a median over 20% of a cohort is a weaker number than one over 70%.