Occupation / job
Power Distributors and Dispatchers
Median annual pay. Half earn less than this.
Hourly at a standard 2,080-hour year. We do not yet have unpaid-time or cost data for this, so this is not an adjusted figure.
The middle half. A quarter earn below this range.
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 · view
What this figure cannot tell you
It covers people EMPLOYED in this occupation. Anyone who trained for it and was never hired is not in the median above, and neither is anyone doing the work self-employed. No verified count of qualified people exists for this occupation, so this page shows none rather than an estimate. Why that matters · The occupations where we could source it
Who this suits
$106,730 is $4,725 a month above the $50,020 the typical American job pays. Differences of that size in Power Distributors and Dispatchers are held in place by a barrier — a licence, a residency, a clearance — and the barrier is the real subject of this page.
Nationally 8,520 people do this. That is a real occupation with a thin local presence — enough that Power Distributors and Dispatchers is a career, not enough that you can assume a second employer down the road.
These roles suit people who take a licence or a certification seriously and are comfortable being trusted with a system most people never think about.
No verified preparation time is on file for Power Distributors and Dispatchers. 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.
Who should not do this
The middle half runs $90,200 to $130,940 — $3,395 a month between the quarters, a 1.5x ratio. Spreads this narrow are usually set by a grade or a scale, so the negotiation you are imagining probably is not available.
The bottom quarter of this field earns $90,200 — $43.36 an hour, $40,180 above the $50,020 national midpoint. When even the worst-paid quarter of Power Distributors and Dispatchers is this far ahead, the barrier to entry is doing the work of keeping it there.
Avoid it if you would not want the responsibility of being the person on shift when the system goes out of range.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 8,520 is a headcount of the employed, which is a numerator without a denominator — everyone who qualified and never got hired is missing from it, and we will not estimate them to complete a percentage.
What the spread tells you
Top quarter to bottom quarter is 1.5x. In a band that narrow, $106,730 is a genuinely representative number for Power Distributors and Dispatchers and the main variable left is where you live.
Put in money rather than ratios: $90,200 at the 25th percentile, $106,730 at the midpoint, $130,940 at the 75th. $40,740 separates the quarter of Power Distributors and Dispatchers at the bottom from the quarter at the top.
The 75th percentile is $130,940. Reaching it from the $106,730 midpoint is $24,210 a year; reaching it from the $90,200 that the bottom quarter of Power Distributors and Dispatchers earn is $40,740.
The climb from $106,730 to $130,940 is $24,210, against $16,530 down to $90,200. Rather more of the range sits above the midpoint than below it, so the realistic upside in Power Distributors and Dispatchers is larger than the realistic downside.
On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Power Distributors and Dispatchers is $51.31 an hour. The quarters sit at $43.36 and $62.95, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.
What these figures are, and what they are not
The $106,730 figure is what employers pay employees. It is before tax and before deductions, it excludes the self-employed entirely, and it says nothing about anyone who does this work on their own account.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Power Distributors and Dispatchers, the hourly figure is $106,730 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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