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What flight dispatchers make
Typical
$114,000
Starting at a small operator
$53,000
Top of the group
$221,000
Job Bank's national median is $54.88 an hour, about $114,000 a year full time. One warning: this page shares an occupation code with air traffic controllers, who earn considerably more. A realistic dispatcher sits in the lower half of this range, especially at smaller airlines.