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Dispatchers, Except Police, Fire, and Ambulance pay in Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX and Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Dispatchers, Except Police, Fire, and Ambulance is $49,740 per year in Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX. It is $64,890 per year in Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA. Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX is 23.3% below Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 43-5032 and the same annual wage metric. Median means the middle of each area's published wage spread. It is not one worker's pay. The larger median is not proof that one place gives a better job or a better result. It is one wage fact from one source period.
BLS lists 270 wage and salary jobs in Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX and 100 in Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA. Those are survey job counts, not open posts. Read pay, job scale, local share, and price level as separate facts before you make a choice.