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What flight attendants make
Typical
$65,000
First year
$47,000
Senior, long-haul
$125,000
Job Bank's national median is $31.25 an hour, about $65,000 a year full time. Read that carefully. Many contracts only pay the hourly rate while the aircraft is moving, so a junior year usually lands well below the full-time figure.