bus route supervisor
Bus route supervisors coordinate vehicle movements, routes and drivers, and may supervise loading, unloading, and checking of baggage or express shipped by bus.
bus route supervisor bus route supervisors coordinate vehicle movements, routes and drivers, and may supervise loading, unloading, and checking of baggage or express shipped by bus. The role shows low AI exposure (0.38 on a 0-1 scale) — the role's core work resists automation. The most in-demand skills for the role include road traffic laws, road transport legislation, geographical routes, national road network, communicate verbal instructions.
Pay in the UK
UK: median £33,508 a year for Transport and distribution clerks and assistants (ONS ASHE 2025, full-time)
Middle half of full-time jobs: £27,996 to £39,496 a year
UK jobs are grouped differently; this is the closest UK occupation group (ONS SOC 2020 4134). ONS rates this estimate precise. 2025 provisional figures; ONS revises them a year later. Source: ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (Open Government Licence)
Pay in India (occupation group)
Average monthly earnings of salaried employees in the occupation group “Clerical support workers” in India, from the Government of India's Periodic Labour Force Survey (January–December 2025). It covers everyone in this group, not only bus route supervisor, and it is not US pay converted to rupees.
Source: MoSPI (Government of India), Periodic Labour Force Survey Annual Report 2025, Table 51 — average wage/salary earnings of regular wage/salaried employees, NCO-2015 division 4. Official India data gives one average per occupation group: there are no official India figures for single careers, experience levels or cities. Read the report
Top skills
Knowledge you'll build
- Customer and Personal Service
- Public Safety and Security
- Administration and Management
- Administrative
- English Language
- Transportation
- Personnel and Human Resources
- Computers and Electronics
What you'd actually do
- Schedule or dispatch workers, work crews, equipment, or service vehicles to appropriate locations, according to customer requests, specifications, or needs, using radios or telephones.
- Prepare daily work and run schedules.
- Confer with customers or supervising personnel to address questions, problems, or requests for service or equipment.
- Relay work orders, messages, or information to or from work crews, supervisors, or field inspectors, using telephones or two-way radios.
- Receive or prepare work orders.
- Record and maintain files or records of customer requests, work or services performed, charges, expenses, inventory, or other dispatch information.
Tools & technology you'd use
Frequently asked questions
What does bus route supervisor do?
Bus route supervisors coordinate vehicle movements, routes and drivers, and may supervise loading, unloading, and checking of baggage or express shipped by bus.
What skills does bus route supervisor need?
The most in-demand skills for this role include road traffic laws, road transport legislation, geographical routes, national road network, communicate verbal instructions, manage assignment of bus routes. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.
Will AI replace bus route supervisor?
Our AI-durability model gives bus route supervisor a score of 0.38 on a 0-1 scale (higher = more exposure). That places it at low AI exposure — the role's core work resists current-generation automation. It's a comparatively AI-durable choice within its field.