- The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides salary information for thousands of occupations, including flight attendants. According to the BLS, the median annual wage for flight attendants in 2010 was $37,740. The middle 50 percent of workers in this field earned between $31,790 and $47,490 during that year.
- According to the BLS's Occupational Employment and Wages report, scheduled air transportation was the overwhelmingly largest employer of flight attendants, including helicopter flight attendants. Other industries employing workers in this field included nonscheduled air transportation, support activities for air transportation and corporate management. Of these industries, corporate management paid the highest wages: a mean annual salary of $59,740.
- In 2010, the greatest demand for flight attendants was in Texas, California, Illinois, New York and Florida. The highest wages for workers in this field were in Michigan, Arizona, Kentucky, Texas and Washington. Positions in those top-earning states paid between $44,000 and $56,000 during that year.
- The Bureau of Labor Statistics anticipates an 8 percent growth in flight attendant jobs between 2008 and 2018, the same growth it predicts for U.S. jobs as a whole. They predict that the majority of job openings will come from the high turnover inherent to the field, rather than from the overall growth in the air transportation industry.
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