First Student
Road Transport · Public Transport
Truth index BSponsors visasDomain protected (DMARC)
1,016Open roles201 posted in 30 days+50 this week
$48kMedian advertised pay$36k – $60k−11% vs market
34 daysTime to fillmedian of 582 closed rolesmarket: 32 days
B 83/100Truth index
Facts
as of Nov 14, 2026First Student is a student transportation company headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, that operates home-to-school, special needs, alternative and charter bus services for school districts across the United States and Canada. It describes itself as the largest student transportation provider in North America, runs technology such as the HALO platform and First View vehicle tracking alongside an electric bus program, and has been owned by EQT Infrastructure since its sale by FirstGroup in 2021. It hires school bus and van drivers, bus monitors and aides, diesel mechanics and technicians, dispatchers, location and safety managers, and French-speaking drivers in Canada.
It is hiring: 1,016 open roles, 201 of them posted in the last 30 days. Its stated pay is 11% below the market estimate for the same roles.
- Headquarters
- Cincinnati, United States
- Founded
- 1999
- Employees
- 5000+estimated range
- Open roles
- 1,016 in 443 citiesAlion job postings
- Official records
- Wikidata Q5453853
- Website
- firststudentinc.com
As of Nov 14, 2026, Alion lists 1,016 open roles at First Student. First Student is headquartered in Cincinnati, United States. It was founded in 1999. The median pay stated in its open roles is $48k, across 836 postings that state pay.
Sources: company registers, GLEIF, Wikidata, the company's site, Alion job postingsReport a mistake
What the registers and the postings say about this employer.
Postings are real
Alion truth index: B
83/100
Ghost roles
re-checked against its careers site
0%
Sanctions lists
OFAC SDN, EU consolidated
No match
Phishing reports
OpenPhish, Phishing.Database
None
Layoff notices
US WARN notices on file
None
Domain and mail securityfirststudentinc.com · Nov 14, 2026
Spoofed mail (DMARC)
Spoofed mail goes to spam
Good
Who may send its mail (SPF)
Other senders fail (-all)
Good
HTTPS certificate
Valid certificate · Google Trust Services
Good
HTTPS enforced (HSTS)
Not enforced
Weak
Security contact (security.txt)
No security.txt
Weak
Encrypted mail delivery (MTA-STS)
No MTA-STS policy
Weak
Signed DNS (DNSSEC)
Not signed
Weak
Certificate issuers (CAA)
Any authority may issue certificates
Weak
Full employer checkScam signs in adverts, mail records, visa registers, domain history
Sources: company registers, the Alion truth index, OFAC and EU sanctions lists, US WARN notices The domain: its DNS records, its site's headers and certificate.
Hiring
All open roles →Hiring steadily, with new roles every week.
Field & Service is the largest family, 86 of open roles.
201Posted in 30 days20% of open roles are fresh
<1%Remote roles8 of 1,016
1Roles in AI0% of open roles
443Hiring offices
Can they hire you from United States?by your location
Likely
1,233 open roles are in your country: you apply locally, no move needed.
No posting offers visa sponsorship. Remote roles: 9.
Time to fillmedian days to close a role
Alion signals0-100
Demand89
Pay41
Your chance52
How badly they need people, whether they pay, how realistic getting in is.
Open roles over time−100%
Sep 28This week
Open roles a week: 754 then, 0 now
Are the postings real?
B
83 / 100First Student scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 178 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 69% have gone stale and 1% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 34 days.
Ghost roles0%
Gone stale69%
Reposted1%
Where the openings areshare of open roles · trend
What postings ask forlanguages named in open roles
Degree asked
High School Diploma 82%Bachelor's Degree 18%
Experience asked: 3.2 years on average, in 215 postings. 103 postings state a degree.
Benefits named in postingsshare of open roles
Contract type
Part-Time 752Full-Time 260Internship 3Contract 1
Visa sponsorship: none statedRelocation offered
Source: the company's careers site, read by Alion several times a day; market medians from all open roles of the same family
Pays 11% below the market estimate for the same roles.
$48kMedianmarket estimate $54k
$36k – $60kTypical rangeUSD a year
$180kHighest paying rolePrincipal Enterprise Architect
Pay by levelmiddle half of stated pay, median marked · dashed: market median $54k
$0$38k$75k$113k$150k
Source: the pay stated in the company's postings, normalised to USD a year
Visa
Full chapter →Named in the work visa registers of United States.
0H-1B filings in 12 months
1Green card filings
$118kMedian offered salary
In the register as First Student, Inc., Cincinnati, OH (+1 more)
Other sponsors in the same field
See 840 open roles Alert me
US Department of Labor · latest filing Aug 15, 2025
Footprint
Hiring in 443 cities in 6 countries.
443Cities
6Countries
BrooklynBusiest site
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| Site | Type | Open roles | Hires most for | Engineering |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cincinnati United States | Headquarters | 20 | Finance, Field & Service, HR | 5% |
| Brooklyn United States | Plant / site | 28 | Field & Service, Industrial Engineering, Administrative | 0% |
| Buffalo United States | Plant / site | 12 | Field & Service, Industrial Engineering, Early Careers | 0% |
| Bronx United States | Plant / site | 10 | Field & Service, Administrative, Management | 0% |
| Mount Vernon United States | Plant / site | 9 | Field & Service, Industrial Engineering, Early Careers | 0% |
| Winnipeg Canada | Plant / site | 9 | Field & Service, Administrative, Education | 0% |
| Chicago United States | Plant / site | 8 | Field & Service, Administrative | 0% |
| Charleston United States | Plant / site | 7 | Field & Service | 0% |
Source: office addresses in postings and company registers
Peers
Compare →Ranked #1 by open roles among its 11 closest peers.
| # | Company | HQ | Open roles | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | First Student | Cincinnati, United States | 1,016 | 5000+ | |
| 2 | Beacon Mobility | Chicago, United States | 357 | 1001-5000 | |
| 3 | Stagecoach | Perth, United Kingdom | 276 | 5000+ | |
| 4 | Student Transportation of America | Wall, United States | 240 | 5000+ | |
| 5 | Greyhound | Dallas, United States | 70 | 1001-5000 | |
| 6 | Transdev | Issy-les-Moulineaux, France | 68 | 5000+ | |
| 7 | Academy Bus | Hoboken, United States | 42 | 1001-5000 | |
| 8 | TransWest | Seattle, United States | 18 | 11-50 |
Source: Alion's similar-companies engine (industry segments, technologies, headquarters country, size)
Tech stack
Full chapter →Technologies named in job postings at First Student over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
31Technologies in use
13Postings analysed
71/100Stack modernity
DatabasesSnowflake 8%
Cloud & platformsAWS 23%Amazon S3 15%Power BI 15%AWS Lambda 8%
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Full First Student tech stack31 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Source: the technologies named in the company's postings and on its site
Milestones
Oct 2026
Formerly Careers - First Student, Inc. (workatfirst.com)
Sep 10
First executive search VP of Procurement
Sep 1
First sales or marketing role Paratransit Cashier
Aug 21
First role in Sierra Leone Spare School Bus Driver
Aug 18
First role in Portugal School Bus Driver
Aug 18
First role in Netherlands School Bus Driver
Aug 12
First role in France School Bus Driver
Jul 15
First role in Germany Bus Monitor/Aide
Each milestone is dated by its source: registers, filings, the press
Newsroom
Sep 152026
Blog
New enhancements give families one place to track yellow bus and First Alt trips, with greater visibility, convenience, and First Charge trenchless and modular charging infrastru…
Aug 242026
Blog
New enhancements give families one place to track yellow bus and First Alt trips, with greater visibility, convenience, and confidence for the new school year. CINCINNATI, OH (Au…
Aug 182026
Blog
Helping Students Feel Ready for the School Bus For some students, riding the school bus is an exciting part of going back to school. For others, especially those riding for the f…
Aug 172026
Blog
The wheels on the bus are going round and round, with some very special guests! Join Blippi and Meekah as they sing the classic "Wheels on the Bus" song in and around a First Stu…
Aug 112026
Award
Recognition reflects strategic investment in the people, proprietary technology, and operational excellence that are setting the standard for student transportation. CINCINNATI,…
Aug 72026
Blog
First Student Enters the New School Year with Strong Safety, Technology, and Operational Performance
Entering the new school year with the scale, technology and operational excellence to help every school district and division begin the year with confidence. CINCINNATI, OH (Augu…
Sources: the outlets named on each headline, each story once