Starting Salary for a Dispatcher

[scannerman700]

On the Average here in Maryland, What is the starting salary for a 911 dispatcher? My Lady Friend is interested in becoming a 911 dispatcher!!!
She is a NREMT-P(Nationally Registered Emergency Medical Technician-Paramedic)

 

[Admin0140434]

i started at 12-something here in A. A. Co.

 

[n4voxgill]

i looked at anne arundel county site and they start at $14.45 per hour.

 

[Admin0140434]

$14.45 per hour

oh, they bumped it up. i dont work as a dispatcher anymore, but thats what it was when i started.

 

[scannerman700]

Thanks for responses!!! matter in fact Im looking into AA County's 911
for a Job as a dispatcher, I'm not to familiar with how those kind of Jobs in
Dispatching work. Are there advancement opportunities of any kind? I imagine there are some pay raises for every year that you work...
Any Thing else I should know Please Post!!!

Lizzy

 

[crashcrew]

http://www.co.anne-arundel.md.us/Personnel/JobDescriptions/CR721.cfm