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.
1 Depending on the type of work done, the location and whether the case requires one investigator, two or more, the hourly rate can vary $40-$300 an hour but typically averages about $50-$100 an hour. A standardized records search might cost $20-$200 or more, depending on what is included; and monitoring a GPS tracking device could cost $50-$75 a day (with a 3-7 day minimum).