Victor's_Vector
New Member
If any career dispatchers are good enough to help, I'd be grateful for your insight on the primary reason(s) why compensation for initial opportunities in dispatch - Part 121 regional airlines in particular - is so...modest.
- Simple supply & demand? (Many certified dispatchers & few positions?)
- Significant "cookie cutter" nature to entry-level positions (i.e., relatively simple usage of established spreadsheets & procedures a majority of the time), with senior dispatchers & managers/supervisors doing the real decision-making during IROP periods?
- Do many people earn the ADX certification only to not make it once actually employed, so airlines hire at modest pay and then give meaningful raises once new dispatchers prove themselves?
- Other factors??
I don't mean to whine/complain - some things simply are what they are and one has to take it or leave it (and I know compensation improves significantly for dispatchers at legacy & major/LCC carriers) - but, right now, it seems entirely possible to me that I'm missing significant aspects of the essence of the dispatcher role in Part 121; it's odd to me that someone with joint responsibility for safety & operational control of the flying public would be paid as early-career dispatchers are currently compensated.
- Simple supply & demand? (Many certified dispatchers & few positions?)
- Significant "cookie cutter" nature to entry-level positions (i.e., relatively simple usage of established spreadsheets & procedures a majority of the time), with senior dispatchers & managers/supervisors doing the real decision-making during IROP periods?
- Do many people earn the ADX certification only to not make it once actually employed, so airlines hire at modest pay and then give meaningful raises once new dispatchers prove themselves?
- Other factors??
I don't mean to whine/complain - some things simply are what they are and one has to take it or leave it (and I know compensation improves significantly for dispatchers at legacy & major/LCC carriers) - but, right now, it seems entirely possible to me that I'm missing significant aspects of the essence of the dispatcher role in Part 121; it's odd to me that someone with joint responsibility for safety & operational control of the flying public would be paid as early-career dispatchers are currently compensated.