Tehachapi 911 dispatcher salary, 2025
Tehachapi is a city in Kern County. 8 people worked as 911 dispatchers for Tehachapi 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 $47,448 to $74,376.
What does Tehachapi pay its 911 dispatchers?
Official pay range1
$47,448 to $74,376
from the lowest entry salary to the top of the highest 911 dispatcher title
Average total pay, full-year 911 dispatchers1
Fewer than 5
8 911 dispatchers in all, 2 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
- $47,448
- bottom of the Communications Dispatcher range
- Average pay rank
- Fewer than 5
- too few full-year staff to rank
What does each 911 dispatcher title at Tehachapi 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
- Communications 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 Tehachapi?
Average total pay of full-year 911 dispatchers across Kern County and across California. Tehachapi's own average isn't shown: fewer than 5 of its 911 dispatchers worked the full year.1
- All employers in Kern County$89,844
- All employers in California$126,606
Full-year 911 dispatchers across Kern County earned an average of $89,844 in 2025, $36,762 less than the California average.
Average 911 dispatcher pay in Kern County compared to nearby counties
Average total pay of full-year 911 dispatchers across all employers in each county that borders Kern County, and how much more or less it pays.1
- Ventura County$138,233 average, 6 employers$48,389 more than Kern County
- Santa Barbara County$134,413 average, 4 employers$44,569 more than Kern County
- Los Angeles County$121,075 average, 38 employers$31,231 more than Kern County
- San Bernardino County$111,808 average, 11 employers$21,964 more than Kern County
- San Luis Obispo County$111,414 average, 5 employers$21,570 more than Kern County
- Inyo County$99,210 average, 2 employers$9,366 more than Kern County
- Tulare County$86,825 average, 5 employers$3,019 less than Kern County
- Kings County$79,515 average, 4 employers$10,329 less than Kern County
Pension and health cover at Tehachapi
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 Tehachapi'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 Tehachapi
Why is there no average 911 dispatcher salary for Tehachapi?
8 people worked as 911 dispatchers for Tehachapi 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 Tehachapi?
The official range across Tehachapi's 911 dispatcher titles runs from $47,448 to $74,376 in 2025. For comparison, full-year 911 dispatchers across Kern County earned an average of $89,844.
What pension do 911 dispatchers at Tehachapi get?
The most common pension formula among Tehachapi's 911 dispatchers is 2% at 62, as reported by the city.
More salaries in Kern County
- Delano$102,304 average total pay
- Kern County$100,010 average total pay
- Shafter$84,862 average total pay
- California City$83,099 average total pay
- Bakersfield$82,987 average total pay
- Ridgecrest$76,676 average total pay
- Taft$62,241 average total pay
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- Police officer salaries at Tehachapi$116,638 average total pay
- Water operator salaries at Tehachapi$94,315 average total pay
- Teacher salaries in Kern CountyEvery school district's salary schedule
Sources for the Tehachapi figures
Every person who held a 911 dispatcher position at Tehachapi 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 Tehachapi.