Desert Hot Springs 911 dispatcher salary, 2025
Desert Hot Springs is a city in Riverside County. 13 people worked as 911 dispatchers for Desert Hot Springs in 2025. Fewer than 5 of them worked the full year, so there is no average that wouldn't describe individual people. The official range for its 911 dispatcher titles runs from $63,636 to $77,350.
What does Desert Hot Springs pay its 911 dispatchers?
Official pay range1
$63,636 to $77,350
from the lowest entry salary to the top of the highest 911 dispatcher title
Average total pay, full-year 911 dispatchers1
Fewer than 5
13 911 dispatchers in all, 1 of them full-year: too few for an average.
- Median total pay
- Fewer than 5
- the middle 911 dispatcher: half earned more, half less
- Overtime
- Fewer than 5
- average per full-year 911 dispatcher
- Starting salary
- $63,636
- bottom of the Dispatcher range
- Average pay rank
- Fewer than 5
- too few full-year staff to rank
What does each 911 dispatcher title at Desert Hot Springs pay?
Each bar is the official range for one title, lowest first. The dot marks the average total pay of full-year staff in that title, where at least 5 people stand behind it.1
- DispatcherFewer than 5
official range average total pay, full year. "Fewer than 5" means too few full-year people in that title to show.
What do 911 dispatchers earn around Desert Hot Springs?
Average total pay of full-year 911 dispatchers across Riverside County and across California. Desert Hot Springs's own average isn't shown: fewer than 5 of its 911 dispatchers worked the full year.1
- All employers in Riverside County$116,888
- All employers in California$126,606
Full-year 911 dispatchers across Riverside County earned an average of $116,888 in 2025, $9,718 less than the California average.
Average 911 dispatcher pay in Riverside County compared to nearby counties
Average total pay of full-year 911 dispatchers across all employers in each county that borders Riverside County, and how much more or less it pays.1
- Orange County$137,560 average, 19 employers$20,672 more than Riverside County
- San Diego County$119,104 average, 13 employers$2,216 more than Riverside County
- San Bernardino County$111,808 average, 11 employers$5,080 less than Riverside County
- Imperial County$73,417 average, 4 employers$43,471 less than Riverside County
Pension and health cover at Desert Hot Springs
As reported by the city. Contributions are what the employer paid per full-year 911 dispatcher, on top of wages.1
- Pension formula
- 2% at 62
- the most common formula among Desert Hot Springs's 911 dispatchers
- Employer pension contribution
- Fewer than 5
- average per year
- Health, dental and vision
- Fewer than 5
- average paid by the employer per year
Questions about 911 dispatcher pay at Desert Hot Springs
Why is there no average 911 dispatcher salary for Desert Hot Springs?
13 people worked as 911 dispatchers for Desert Hot Springs in 2025, but fewer than 5 of them worked the full year. Every figure on Public Paycheck covers at least 5 people, so none describes one person.
What is the pay range for a 911 dispatcher at Desert Hot Springs?
The official range across Desert Hot Springs's 911 dispatcher titles runs from $63,636 to $77,350 in 2025. For comparison, full-year 911 dispatchers across Riverside County earned an average of $116,888.
What pension do 911 dispatchers at Desert Hot Springs get?
The most common pension formula among Desert Hot Springs's 911 dispatchers is 2% at 62, as reported by the city.
More salaries in Riverside County
- Corona$134,148 average total pay
- Riverside$123,707 average total pay
- Riverside County$117,136 average total pay
- Palm Springs$117,131 average total pay
- Indio$115,181 average total pay
- Murrieta$114,457 average total pay
- Cathedral City$113,935 average total pay
- Hemet$107,579 average total pay
- Beaumont$93,724 average total pay
- Highest 911 dispatcher salaries in CaliforniaThe best-paying employers, ranked
- Police officer salaries at Desert Hot Springs$183,886 average total pay
- Teacher salaries in Riverside CountyEvery school district's salary schedule
Sources for the Desert Hot Springs figures
Every person who held a 911 dispatcher position at Desert Hot Springs at any point in 2025 counts toward the headcount. Pay figures use only people who worked roughly the full year: those whose regular pay reached at least 90% of the bottom of their official range. Total pay is gross wages before tax, including overtime, lump sums and other pay. Averages lead; the median total pay is the middle person's, with half above and half below, and is less pulled by a few people with very high pay. Every figure covers at least 5 people.
- State Controller's Office, Government Compensation in California, 2025: positions, official pay ranges, wages, pension formula and employer contributions as reported by Desert Hot Springs.