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Aviation Operations Specialists

SOC 53-5032

Coordinate flight operations, crew scheduling, and airspace coordination.

The job
Median pay
$57k
$42k to $77k typical range
BLS figure for Airfield Operations Specialists
Outlook, 2025 to 2035
Growing fast
+7.8% projected
BLS figure for Airfield Operations Specialists
Openings a year
2k
BLS figure for Airfield Operations Specialists
Typical education
Associate's
Our model
AI displacement risk
Moderate
How much of this job AI may do instead of the person
Works with AI
10/100
AI alongside the person rather than instead of them
AI exposure
53rd pct
More exposed than 53% of occupations · modeled estimate
Future-proof
49/100

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Key skills

Pay and jobs by state

BLS OEWS May 2025, 51 states. Sorted by jobs; per 1,000 is jobs per thousand workers in the state; vs national compares that rate with the country's. A tilde marks a figure estimated from the parent occupation group where BLS publishes none.

StateJobsPer 1,000vs nationalMedian pay
Florida2,3200.22.4×$58k
New York2,1900.22.3×$42k
California1,6600.10.9×$63k
Texas1,3100.10.9×$61k
Illinois7040.11.2×$58k~
North Carolina6100.11.3×$46k
New Jersey5040.11.2×$42k~
Michigan4400.11.0×$62k
Massachusetts3800.11.1×$56k
Ohio3600.10.7×$57k
All 51 states
StateJobsPer 1,000vs nationalMedian pay
Indiana3500.11.1×$38k
Georgia3400.10.7×$67k
Pennsylvania3400.10.6×$56k
Missouri3100.11.1×$40k
Kentucky2900.11.5×$123k
Utah2900.21.7×$60k
Virginia2800.10.7×$72k
Minnesota2570.10.9×$61k~
Maryland2370.10.9×$58k~
Alabama2310.11.1×$79k~
Louisiana2080.11.1×$50k~
South Dakota1900.44.3×$38k
Tennessee1900.10.6×$40k
Alaska1600.55.0×$72k
Arizona1600.00.5×$78k
Kansas1500.11.1×$57k~
Nevada1500.11.0×$61k
Washington1500.00.4×$84k
Arkansas1490.11.2×$50k~
Connecticut1430.10.9×$57k~
Mississippi1360.11.2×$44k~
Nebraska1020.11.0×$57k~
Wisconsin1000.00.3×$39k
Montana900.21.8×$34k
South Carolina900.00.4×$34k
North Dakota800.21.9×$38k
Oklahoma800.00.5×$49k
Colorado700.00.3×$78k
West Virginia600.10.9×$29k
New Hampshire570.10.8×$56k~
Hawaii560.10.9×$61k~
Maine540.10.9×$58k~
New Mexico500.10.6×$69k
Oregon500.00.3×$75k
Delaware470.11.0×$59k~
Idaho400.00.5×$63k
Iowa400.00.3×$49k
Rhode Island350.10.7×$58k~
Wyoming280.11.0×$61k~
Vermont230.10.8×$58k~
Washington DC210.00.3×$63k~

Top metro areas

  1. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ2,090 jobs · $42k median
  2. Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL1,530 jobs · $59k median
  3. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA620 jobs · $57k median
  4. Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH280 jobs · $56k median
  5. Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX260 jobs · $48k median
  6. Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC250 jobs · $46k median
  7. Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI250 jobs · $70k median
  8. Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL250 jobs · $49k median

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BLS does not publish this occupation on its own. Pay and outlook here are BLS's figures for Airfield Operations Specialists (SOC 53-2022), the occupation it is grouped with, so the real figures for this job could sit either side of them. Skills and work activities from O*NET 30.3. AI exposure and future-proof scores are modeled estimates. How these numbers are made.