Aircraft Service Attendants Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Read the ladder vertically: each row is the wage of the Aircraft Service Attendants worker at that point in the distribution, so $47,390 at the 75th percentile means three quarters of the occupation earns less. Figures BLS cannot publish appear as n/p, and its top code prints as $239,200+.

Employment and concentration

BLS counted 27,310 Aircraft Service Attendants jobs in May 2024, which is 0.02% of all U.S. employment in the survey. Work is most concentrated in Alaska, where the location quotient is 4.69, meaning the occupation holds 4.69 times its national share of local jobs. Texas employs the most people outright, 3,040 of them, and the three largest state employers together account for 31.0% of the national total.

One in ten workers in this field earns $34,320 or less, and one in ten earns $55,950 or more, so the top-to-bottom ratio is 1.6 to 1 and the annual gap is $21,630. The mean ($43,630) versus median ($41,540) comparison shows a right-skewed ladder where senior and specialist roles lift the average in this occupation.

Pay by state

Sorted by employment, the table below puts Texas first at 3,040 jobs; sorted by median pay instead, Tennessee would lead at $55,690. Both orderings are printed in one table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Aircraft Service Attendants stands number 498 by employment and number 680 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Transportation and Material Moving Occupations, the group median wage is $52,310 across 50 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 21% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.2% of the group's 13,645,590 jobs. In 17 of the 45 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $41,540, which is the single best quick test of whether this occupation's pay is set nationally or locally: a high count means local markets regularly outbid the national figure.

Metropolitan areas: where the jobs and the pay sit

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ is the largest metro employer with 2,280 jobs, 8.3% of the national total. Below, the biggest employers come first; the pay table after it only counts metros with 500 or more jobs in the occupation, so its leader is a real market and not a statistical artifact.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $38,200 a year, against $47,200 in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. Anyone relocating for this work should price the destination metro's table row, not the national median, before signing anything.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

As a household number, $41,540 a year is $3,462 a month gross, $1,598 every two weeks, $799 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($37,320) to the 75th ($47,390) is worth $10,070 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. The next step from a gross figure is a net one: run the $3,462 monthly figure through the paycheck calculator applies your state's taxes, the salary calculator compares two offers in any unit, and the raise vs inflation calculator tells you whether a nominal raise is a real one.

To place a real offer: a salary of $45,694 would sit between the median ($41,540) and the 75th percentile ($47,390), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $37,320, is $4,220 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

The occupations BLS groups with this one, by size: Stockers and Order Fillers, Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers, Light Truck Drivers, Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators, First-Line Supervisors of Transportation and Material Moving Workers, Except Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors, Packers and Packagers, Hand. Every one of the 826 published occupations is indexed on the Careers hub.