Aircraft Service Attendants

At $40,450 against $50,020, this pays $797 a month less than the typical American job. Below the midpoint but within reach of it: the spread and the floor below decide whether that description flatters Aircraft Service Attendants or not.

With 31,300 employed as Aircraft Service Attendants, most metros have a working market: several employers, visible turnover, and the ability to change jobs without moving house.

These transport roles suit people who want to work around moving vehicles and traffic with a defined, learnable task and a clear end to the shift.

No verified preparation time is on file for Aircraft Service Attendants. The wage survey behind every figure on this page asks employers what they pay, not what they required, so the honest answer here is that we do not know.

The quarters sit at $35,740 and $46,830, $924 a month apart at a ratio of 1.3x. Narrow enough that what you can expect is close to what everyone else gets.

A quarter of the field earns under $35,740 — $14,280 below the $50,020 the typical American job pays. That is the number to plan on for a first year, not the midpoint.

Avoid it if working beside live traffic in all weather is not a risk you want to take repeatedly.

There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 31,300 people employed as Aircraft Service Attendants; it did not count the people who trained for it and are doing something else, and a rate built without that denominator would be a number we made up.

At 1.3x between $35,740 and $46,830, this is a narrow distribution. $40,450 is a reliable number to plan around, which is worth something — but so is knowing that outperforming the field will not be paid for.

The middle half of this field earns between $35,740 and $46,830. That is $11,090 of range, with $40,450 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.

Between $35,740 and $46,830 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $40,450. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $6,380; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $11,090.

The climb from $40,450 to $46,830 is $6,380, against $4,710 down to $35,740. Rather more of the range sits above the midpoint than below it, so the realistic upside in Aircraft Service Attendants is larger than the realistic downside.

Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $17.18 at the bottom quarter, $19.44 at the midpoint, $22.51 at the top quarter. The typical American job works out at $24.04 on the same basis.