Annual Salary, Salary Range, and Highest Paying States and Industries
Flight Attendants
Flight Attendants monitor safety of the aircraft cabin. Provide services to airline passengers, explain safety information, serve food and beverages, and respond to emergency incidents.
Table of contents
- Average salary
- Starting salary
- Salary rank
- Salary range
- Highest paying states
- Highest paying industries
Average salary
Starting salary
Entry-level Flight Attendants with little to no experience can expect to make anywhere between $30,930 to $43,080 per year. Similar to any other job, their salary will increase as they gain experience.
Salary rank
We wanted to make it easy for our readers to compare the salary of Flight Attendants to all the other careers out there. So we created Salary Rank. We compared the salary of all careers then we gave them a rank of A, B, C, or D depending on where their average salary sit in comparison to other careers.
Salary range
Level | Hourly | Annual |
---|---|---|
Highest (Top 10%) | $* | $84,790 |
Senior (Top 25%) | $* | $71,550 |
Middle (Mid 50%) | $* | $59,050 |
Junior (Bottom 25%) | $* | $43,080 |
No experience (Bottom 10%) | $* | $30,930 |
Highest paying states
State | Hourly | Annual |
---|---|---|
IN | $* | $63,860 |
MA | $* | $63,620 |
NC | $* | $62,900 |
TX | $* | $60,250 |
MI | $* | $59,050 |
OH | $* | $59,000 |
CA | $* | $58,600 |
GA | $* | $58,340 |
FL | $* | $58,240 |
NV | $* | $58,160 |
* Flight Attendants are generally paid on an annual basis not hourly.
Another simple way to increase your salary as a Flight Attendant is to move to a higher paying state. However moving to a higher paying state like IN doesn’t guarantee that you will make more because the expenses at IN might be much higher than where you are currently living at right now.
According to BLS, the highest paid Flight Attendants are in the states of IN, MA, NC, TX and MI.
Highest paying industries
Salary by industry | Annual | Hourly |
---|---|---|
Nonscheduled Air Transportation | $59690 | $* |
Scheduled Air Transportation | $59230 | $* |
Support Activities for Air Transportation | $53480 | $* |
Employment Services | $51560 | $* |
Management of Companies and Enterprises | $ | $* |