{"id":298508,"date":"2025-10-09T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T23:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-atc-salaries-more-faa-administrator-2024\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T09:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T23:00:16","slug":"why-some-air-traffic-controllers-salaries-were-more-than-the-faa-administrators-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=298508","title":{"rendered":"Why Some Air Traffic Controllers&#8217; Salaries Were More Than The FAA Administrator&#8217;s In 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air traffic control towers have been in the headlines this year, likely more than anyone (both in the industry and travelers alike) would have wanted them to be. A tragic accident in understaffed air traffic control areas near Reagan National Airport (DCA) and a series of dangerous air traffic control blackouts at <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"256498\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/newark-liberty-international-airport\/\"  >Newark Liberty International Airport<\/a><\/span> (EWR) have been quick to concern everyone with a love for commercial aviation. Maintaining safe air traffic control management systems has been a critical catalyst for the continued growth of the commercial aviation industry. With continued bullish growth on the horizon, weak air traffic control systems could be a key hurdle holding the industry back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air traffic control talent pipelines are in crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1832,396,475,5361,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-traffic-control","category-aircraft","category-airports","category-salary","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=298508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298509,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298508\/revisions\/298509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}