Between 6,000 and 8,000 people in the city of Galveston had died, and estimated casualties for the entire island ranged from 10,000 to 12,000. Property damage is impossible to estimate by current standards, but contemporary figures ranged from twenty to thirty million dollars.
A job posting for a public safety dispatcher in in Lake Havasu City, AZ, revealed an annual salary of $34,008 for trainees and an annual salary range of $37,398 and $52,374 for dispatchers with at least one year of experience.
The median annual wage for police, fire, and ambulance dispatchers was $38,870 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 $25,100, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $61,270.