Aircraft Service Attendants salary

SOC 53-6032 · BLS OEWS May 2025

Median

$40,450

per year, nationally

Middle half

$35,740–$46,830

25th to 75th percentile

Employed

31,300

in the U.S.

Growth 2024–34

+5.1%

4,300 openings/yr

What the range looks like

A single median hides most of what a job pays. The bar below is the full national range: the wash spans the 10th to 90th percentile, the solid bar is the middle half, and the tick is the median.

$33,830$57,610

10th: $33,830
25th: $35,740
Median: $40,450
75th: $46,830
90th: $57,610

Getting in

Typical education to enter: High school diploma or equivalent
Related work experience: None
On-the-job training: Short-term on-the-job training

Entry requirements describe what is typical, not mandatory. Source: BLS Employment Projections, 2024–34.

Where aircraft service attendants earn the most

Nominal pay and pay adjusted for local prices rank states differently — a high-wage state with high costs can be worse off in real terms than a middling one. Switch between the two below.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	State	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	Maryland	$71,740	105.0	240	0.44×
2	Tennessee	$56,620	91.9	580	0.87×
3	Hawaii	$53,770	110.0	290	2.28×
4	Washington	$50,520	107.0	710	1.00×
5	Minnesota	$46,930	98.6	380	0.64×
6	Utah	$46,900	98.9	180	0.52×
7	California	$46,800	110.7	2,300	0.63×
8	Alaska	$46,760	102.4	300	4.63×
9	Montana	$46,310	94.6	170	1.68×
10	New Jersey	$46,210	108.8	920	1.07×
11	Kansas	$45,960	90.1	260	0.90×
12	New Hampshire	$45,610	104.2	60	0.42×
13	New Mexico	$45,280	92.2	220	1.28×
14	New York	$44,600	107.9	1,450	0.74×
15	Colorado	$44,500	103.1	1,220	2.11×
16	North Dakota	$44,320	89.0	120	1.36×
17	Massachusetts	$44,190	105.8	1,490	2.03×
18	Arizona	$43,780	100.7	540	0.83×
19	Ohio	$43,310	92.8	770	0.69×
20	Alabama	$43,090	88.8	400	0.94×
21	Louisiana	$42,930	88.2	660	1.70×
22	Georgia	$42,630	96.3	590	0.60×
23	Wisconsin	$42,000	94.1	90	0.16×
24	Maine	$41,400	97.0	160	1.25×
25	Michigan	$41,360	96.2	230	0.26×
26	Nevada	$40,730	100.0	720	2.29×
27	Idaho	$40,250	95.5	80	0.46×
28	Oregon	$39,820	103.4	470	1.18×
29	Connecticut	$39,230	103.6	210	0.62×
30	Virginia	$39,210	101.1	730	0.89×
31	Illinois	$39,070	100.0	750	0.61×
32	Kentucky	$38,850	90.2	400	0.99×
33	Pennsylvania	$38,830	97.6	800	0.66×
34	Texas	$38,720	97.1	3,290	1.16×
35	Florida	$38,400	103.4	2,340	1.17×
36	Arkansas	$38,290	86.9	110	0.44×
37	Delaware	$37,920	99.8	40	0.44×
38	Nebraska	$37,530	90.1	220	1.06×
39	Indiana	$37,390	93.3	200	0.31×
40	Mississippi	$36,710	87.0	260	1.12×
41	Oklahoma	$36,640	87.8	240	0.69×
42	Missouri	$36,610	90.8	420	0.71×
43	Wyoming	$36,360	92.7	100	1.85×
44	South Carolina	$36,130	93.7	290	0.62×
45	Iowa	$35,560	87.8	160	0.50×
46	West Virginia	$30,840	89.5	30	0.24×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. States where aircraft service attendants wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Best paying metro areas for aircraft service attendants

The 40 highest-paying metros with a published estimate. BLS suppresses roughly half of all occupation-by-metro cells, so a metro absent here has no local figure rather than a low one.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	Metro area	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	Bozeman, MT	$57,780	102.5	30	2.33×
2	Memphis, TN-MS-AR	$56,620	92.2	440	3.56×
3	Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD	$53,890	104.5	100	0.37×
4	Urban Honolulu, HI	$51,930	111.0	150	1.67×
5	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$50,570	115.6	210	0.44×
6	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$50,520	111.1	580	1.39×
7	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$50,140	110.4	150	0.66×
8	Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY	$47,370	99.6	60	0.64×
9	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$47,200	113.6	1,060	0.84×
10	Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ	$47,110	103.3	380	0.80×
11	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$46,940	104.8	320	0.81×
12	Salt Lake City-Murray, UT	$46,900	100.9	160	0.98×
13	Anchorage, AK	$46,760	105.4	270	7.58×
14	Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX	$46,630	98.1	180	0.70×
15	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$46,350	105.8	700	2.16×
16	New Orleans-Metairie, LA	$46,290	92.6	410	4.62×
17	Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH	$45,720	92.7	60	0.77×
18	Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA	$45,260	100.1	350	0.60×
19	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$45,250	112.6	1,910	1.00×
20	Albuquerque, NM	$45,200	95.5	150	1.79×
21	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	$44,950	106.4	260	0.74×
22	Cleveland, OH	$44,600	93.9	210	1.02×
23	Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY	$44,530	95.8	—	—
24	Wichita, KS	$44,480	88.9	100	1.68×
25	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$44,350	106.7	70	0.33×
26	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$44,190	108.3	1,390	2.56×
27	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$44,010	111.9	210	0.69×
28	Tucson, AZ	$43,780	96.9	80	0.98×
29	Colorado Springs, CO	$43,740	100.7	110	1.66×
30	Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX	$42,830	103.1	1,280	1.57×
31	Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL	$41,910	114.2	1,040	1.83×
32	Ann Arbor, MI	$41,360	100.9	50	1.11×
33	Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY	$40,800	109.4	50	0.87×
34	Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV	$40,730	100.2	530	2.31×
35	Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL	$40,170	102.3	—	—
36	Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ	$40,170	98.9	30	0.99×
37	Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI	$40,150	100.3	70	0.19×
38	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$40,140	108.9	490	0.77×
39	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$39,850	105.4	350	1.43×
40	Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL	$39,770	97.0	50	1.90×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. Metro areas where aircraft service attendants wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

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