From baggage handlers to pilots, here's how much everyone who works in air travel makes

The Bureau of Labor Statistics provides data on wages and employment in the air transportation industry.Airports and airlines employ a wide variety of workers, and salaries range from around the median wage to very high paying.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.Airports and airlines employ a wide variety of workers, and salaries range from around the median wage to very high-paying.The Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment Statistics program offers data on employment and wages across different occupations and industries.According to that report, there were about a half-million Americans employed in the air transportation industry in May 2018, the most recent year for which data is available.Airline jobs tend to be fairly high-paying. The median annual wage for an employee in the air transportation industry was $60,550, well above the overall median wage of $38,640.Here are all the occupations for which at least 5% of air transportation industry establishments reported having employees, ranked from lowest to highest wage, along with their median annual pay and the number of people in that job: