Flight Dispatcher Salaries

By Kyle Garrett

PayScale.com reports that flight dispatchers with 1-4 years experience make between $31,000 and $46,000, and those with more than five years experience earn between $40,000 and $92,000 per year. AvJobs.com reports that the highest paid dispatchers can earn $110,000 per year. According to Careers.StateUniversity.com, flight dispatcher salaries vary depending on the dispatcher's experience, size of the operation, location, and size of airport. Starting salaries can be as low as $20,000 per year and top out at over $100,000 annually. Learn about flight dispatcher training.

Flight Dispatcher Benefits

Other flight dispatcher benefits may include health insurance, life insurance, retirement plans, and travel benefits (if airline employed) for you and your immediate family, including free or reduced airfares and discounts at major hotels. Another possible benefit of working for an airline is being able to ride in the cockpit jumpseat. Dispatchers are required to fly in the jumpseat at least five hours per year as part of their recurrent training, but dispatchers are also allowed to fly in the jumpseat on their own airline, and most other airlines, anywhere, anytime the jumpseat is available. Get more information about flight dispatcher jobs.