{"id":314626,"date":"2025-11-11T03:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T17:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-much-atc-really-make\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T03:00:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T17:00:19","slug":"this-is-how-much-air-traffic-controllers-really-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=314626","title":{"rendered":"This Is How Much Air Traffic Controllers Really Make"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"262008\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/air-traffic-controllers\/\"  >Air traffic controllers<\/a><\/span> are the unseen guardians of the skies, ensuring that every aircraft moves safely and efficiently from take-off to landing. Whether guiding a single-engine Cessna or a fully loaded <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"3525540\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Airbus A380<\/span><\/span>, air traffic controllers play a vital role in keeping air travel one of the safest modes of transportation in the world. Given the pressure involved, air traffic controllers can earn a very high salary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Air Traffic Controllers hitting the headlines, how much do they earn in the US?<\/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":[1832,3992,396,6432,475,18699,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-traffic-control","category-air-traffic-controller","category-aircraft","category-airport-operations","category-airports","category-government-shutdown","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314626","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=314626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314627,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314626\/revisions\/314627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=314626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=314626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=314626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}