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Power Distributors and Dispatchers earn $106,730 a year at the midpoint

The middle of the pay scale for power distributors and dispatchers is $106,730. A typical start is nearer $90,200; the top tenth earn about $154,270.

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$106,730median a year · United States
$51.31an hour $111,320average 8,520people
Nine in ten people in this work earn between the two ends. The shaded part is the middle half — where most people are.
$90,20025th $106,730median $130,94075th
$72,44010th percentile $154,27090th percentile
$90,200a year at the 25th percentile, nearer a first job
$144,710best-paying state · Washington
$79,580lowest-paying state · New Mexico
+36%top state against the national median
  • Read the spread, not the middle. The median is the midpoint across everyone in the occupation, most of them years into the work. A beginner starts nearer the 10th to 25th percentile, which is why the spread is published alongside it.
  • What the figure counts. The figure counts base pay plus tips, commissions and production bonuses. It leaves out the self-employed, unpaid family workers, private household workers, and the value of benefits or profit sharing.
  • Where you live moves it more than your resume does. National figures. A state or metro area can sit far from the national number, and that gap is usually larger than any difference a resume makes.
  • Not in these numbers. Growth and annual openings are not in this dataset. They come from the separate Employment Projections tables, where an opening is a modelled ten year average and not a posted vacancy.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, 2025. Retrieved through the BLS Public Data API on 2026-08-13. bls.gov/oes “BLS.gov cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from BLS.gov.”

State matters a lotThe same job pays $144,710 in Washington and $79,580 in New Mexico — a gap of $65,130 a year.

Power distributor and dispatcher earnings, from starting pay to the top 10%

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Power distributor and dispatcher wages by state

The 37 states where the most people do this work, of 38 with a published figure: their medians range by 1.82 times. Figures are the 2025 survey.

State Median a year Where most start 10th to 90th Employed
Washington $144,710 $95,370 $95,370 — $197,080 380
New York $139,390 $98,920 $98,920 — $159,400 150
Nevada $138,300 $91,790 $91,790 — $159,860 100
California $137,570 $101,200 $101,200 — $209,200 670
Oregon $137,490 $125,210 $125,210 — $195,360 340
Idaho $136,550 $119,540 $119,540 — $176,140 60
South Dakota $130,270 $99,650 $99,650 — $142,960 30
Indiana $129,080 $84,290 $84,290 — $157,980 90
New Jersey $128,220 $102,350 $102,350 — $151,970 330
Maine $121,520 $77,270 $77,270 — $129,240 100
Massachusetts $121,010 $99,440 $99,440 — $146,180 390
Wyoming $120,210 $100,990 $100,990 — $126,570 70
Arkansas $117,370 $63,260 $63,260 — $139,400 210
Kansas $116,810 $64,960 $64,960 — $126,430 90
Michigan $116,780 $75,100 $75,100 — $140,920 450
Alabama $114,570 $89,500 $89,500 — $166,390 190
Maryland $113,660 $85,560 $85,560 — $138,250 50
Minnesota $105,630 $82,260 $82,260 — $136,380 100
Kentucky $105,600 $65,280 $65,280 — $140,690 140
Oklahoma $105,530 $60,910 $60,910 — $140,820 50
Missouri $105,450 $61,220 $61,220 — $131,620 100
Texas $102,890 $75,990 $75,990 — $126,920 970
West Virginia $101,960 $84,840 $84,840 — $126,780 50
Illinois $101,470 $64,360 $64,360 — $124,310 330
Florida $101,060 $60,260 $60,260 — $127,580 260
Ohio $100,320 $63,610 $63,610 — $121,720 360
Mississippi $98,960 $64,930 $64,930 — $135,510 90
Pennsylvania $98,930 $71,080 $71,080 — $119,450 560
Nebraska $98,570 $63,060 $63,060 — $120,190 240
Arizona $98,510 $86,300 $86,300 — $122,050 70
South Carolina $91,570 $66,510 $66,510 — $107,550 190
North Carolina $90,420 $62,710 $62,710 — $98,800 190
Wisconsin $83,140 $69,610 $69,610 — $109,100 40
Virginia $81,080 $60,600 $60,600 — $107,770 330
Georgia $80,560 $65,800 $65,800 — $130,710 90
Tennessee $79,910 $58,120 $58,120 — $121,970 100
New Mexico $79,580 $69,870 $69,870 — $115,940 40

Adjacent work, and what it pays

Occupations in the same group of the federal classification — the usual next steps, or the ones beside this one.

Power Distributors and Dispatchers$106,730
Power Plant Operators$102,040−$4,690 Petroleum Pump System Operators, Refinery Operators, and Gaugers$96,710−$10,020 Chemical Plant and System Operators$78,120−$28,610 Plant and System Operators, All Other$62,470−$44,260 Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant and System Operators$60,020−$46,710

Resumes for power distributors and dispatchers

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  • Coordinated with engineers, planners, field personnel, or other utility workers to provide information such as clearances, switching orders, or distribution process changes.
  • Responded to emergencies, such as transformer or transmission line failures, and route current around affected areas.
  • Controlled, monitored, or operated equipment that regulates or distributes electricity or steam, using data obtained from instruments or computers.

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No. 83 of 788 by median pay

Better paid than 89% of the occupations in the survey.

  1. 81 Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers $107,230
  2. 82 Environmental Engineers $107,110
  3. 83 Power Distributors and Dispatchers $106,730
  4. 84 Facilities Managers $106,660
  5. 85 Mining and Geological Engineers, Including Mining Safety Engineers $106,220

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Power distributor and dispatcher pay rate, hourly to yearly

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$106,725a year

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What is a power distributor and dispatcher’s yearly income?

A power distributor and dispatcher makes a median of $106,730 a year (2025 survey). The middle half earn between $90,200 and $130,940.

What is a power distributor and dispatcher’s hourly pay rate?

The median pay rate is $51.31 an hour; the average is $111,320 a year.

What is the starting pay for a power distributor and dispatcher?

Starting pay is usually near the 25th percentile, $90,200 a year, and sometimes as low as the 10th, $72,440.

Which state pays power distributors and dispatchers the most?

Washington, with a median of $144,710 a year.

How many people work as power distributors and dispatchers?

About 8,520 in the United States — number 83 of 788 occupations by median pay.

Jobs that pay about the same

Median pay within $580 of what power distributors and dispatchers earn — $106,730 a year — but not always the same spread.

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