Salary Overview. In 2011, air traffic controllers averaged $114,460 a year. But high salaries â and low ones, for that matter â can skew the average, and median wage is often a better indication of earnings. Half of all air traffic controllers earned less than $113,540 a year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Definition. The term âhourly wageâ describes a rate an employer agrees to pay a worker per hour worked, such as $12 per hour or $17.50 per hour. The âaverageâ or âmeanâ is an estimated hourly rate calculated using the varying hourly rates of a group of workers in a specific occupation.ou determine the average earned by adding the amounts (9+10+11+12+35) and then dividing the total (77) by the number of people (5). In this example, the average hourly wage earned was $15.40 per hour.
The median hourly wage for food and beverage serving and related workers was $9.44 in May 2016. The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $8.13, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $12.98.