Highest 911 dispatcher salaries in New York, by employer, 2024-25

Nassau County pays New York's highest average total pay for 911 dispatchers: $109,314 for those who worked the full year in the newest year each employer has published (2024 and 2025), against a state average of $91,468. It also has the highest base pay ($81,371).

Where do 911 dispatchers earn the most in New York?

The 5 employers with the highest average total pay of full-year dispatchers, overtime included.

Highest average total pay

Highest 911 dispatcher base pay in New York

Average base pay of full-year dispatchers, without overtime and other pay: closer to what the job pays for a regular schedule.

Highest average base pay

Where do New York 911 dispatchers earn the most overtime?

Average overtime paid to full-year dispatchers in the newest year each employer has published (2024 and 2025). A few people with a lot of overtime can pull an employer's average up.

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Questions about the highest 911 dispatcher salaries in New York

Which New York employer pays 911 dispatchers the most?

Nassau County, where full-year dispatchers earned an average of $109,314 in 2025, overtime included. Suffolk County ($99,818) and Buffalo ($91,780) follow.

Where do 911 dispatchers work the most overtime in New York?

Full-year dispatchers at Buffalo were paid an average of $35,202 in overtime in fiscal year 2025, the most of any New York employer with at least 5 of them. The New York average is $15,883.

Sources for the New York 911 dispatcher rankings

New York City's pay figures use only people still employed at the end of June 2025 who worked at least 90% of a full year's regular hours at their title's standard week; for school staff, whose hours aren't recorded, regular pay of at least 90% of their own annual salary. The other employers' files have no hours, so their figures use full-time staff who held the same title the year before and earned at least 90% of that year's pay (Suffolk, Nassau and Broome counties), or who were paid their salary on at least 90% of the year's paydays (Buffalo). Total pay is gross wages before tax, including overtime, lump sums and other pay. Every figure covers at least 5 people. Rankings and medians are our own arithmetic on these figures. Each employer's figures are from the newest year it has published (2024 and 2025).

City of New York, Citywide Payroll Data (Fiscal Year): titles, base salaries, regular pay, overtime and other pay of every city employee, fiscal year 2025 (July 2024 to June 2025).
City of New York, Department of Citywide Administrative Services, Civil Service Titles: official minimum and maximum pay per title, current list (2026).
Suffolk County, County Salaries by Department 2024 and 2023: each county employee's most recent title, hire and end dates, regular earnings, overtime and total pay in 2024; the 2023 file shows who held the same title a year earlier.
Broome County, Annual Employee Earnings (Open NY): title, full- or part-time status, regular, overtime and total earnings of every county employee in 2025, and in 2024 to see who held the same title a year earlier.
City of Buffalo, Open Payroll: every pay line of every city employee, with title, start date and kind of pay, fiscal year 2025 (July 2024 to June 2025), added up per person.
Nassau County Comptroller, Nassau Open Payroll: title, full- or part-time status, regular pay, overtime, longevity, shift differential, termination pay and other pay of every county employee in 2025, and in 2024 to see who held the same title a year earlier.

How we read the data