Salary Overview. In 2011, air traffic controllers averaged $114,460 a year. But high salaries â and low ones, for that matter â can skew the average, and median wage is often a better indication of earnings. Half of all air traffic controllers earned less than $113,540 a year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Definition. The term âhourly wageâ describes a rate an employer agrees to pay a worker per hour worked, such as $12 per hour or $17.50 per hour. The âaverageâ or âmeanâ is an estimated hourly rate calculated using the varying hourly rates of a group of workers in a specific occupation.ou determine the average earned by adding the amounts (9+10+11+12+35) and then dividing the total (77) by the number of people (5). In this example, the average hourly wage earned was $15.40 per hour.
Full-time employees currently make an average of $12.85 an hour, and part-time employees make an average of $9.48, Lundberg says. Those averages will increase to $13 and $10 respectively under the new plan.almart employs more than 1.3 million people in the U.S. Of the 500,000 employees getting raises, approximately 6,000 currently make the federal minimum of $7.25 an hour, says spokesperson Kory Lundberg.