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What rail traffic controllers make
Median for the group
$50,340
Bottom tenth
$36,030
Top tenth
$78,140
The federal wage survey does not publish this job on its own. My Next Move lists train dispatcher as one of the titles in Dispatchers, Except Police, Fire, and Ambulance, a group that also covers taxi, truck and service crew dispatchers. The median for the group is $50,340 a year. The bottom tenth earn $36,030 or less and the top tenth $78,140 or more (2025 federal wage survey). Railroad dispatcher pay is set by each railroad's union contract, and the survey does not publish it separately.