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.
I would estimate that 99% of the shoppers out there want to get the best value for their dispatchers, techs and taxpayers. Asking how much a dispatch console or dispatch workstation costs is a great question, but there is no simple answer. Let's use a car analogy to help better understand the complexities of the question. The purchase of dispatch furniture is similar to purchasing a car.