Dispatchers and operations
10 openings, read from the employers' own websites. Dispatchers and flight followers plan and watch flights for airlines and operators; airline dispatchers hold the FAA's dispatcher certificate. The survey has no line for dispatchers; the nearest occupation is shown.
By state
Openings newest first
What it pays Airfield operations specialists (the survey's nearest occupation; aircraft dispatchers are counted elsewhere) · the Bureau of Labor Statistics' wage survey,
- Median a year
- $56,850
- Employed, nationally
- 15,190
National figures for the occupation as the survey defines it (code 53-2022); an opening's own pay, where the employer states it, is shown on its page. The survey's page.
Sources: the employers' own websites and their hiring systems' public boards; pay: the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025.
