Ohio·Transportation and Material Moving Occupations·SOC 53-2031

Best Flight Attendant programs in Ohio, ranked by enrollment

Monitor safety of the aircraft cabin.

1 schools in Ohio run programs that feed this job, graduating 19 people a year. The job pays a median of $62,440 in Ohio across about 990 jobs (BLS OEWS May 2025).

Also calledPurserFlight AttendantIn-Flight Crew MemberInternational Flight AttendantStewardFlight CrewFlight HostessFlight Steward
Graduates / yr
19
in Ohio
Median pay · Ohio
$62,440
BLS OEWS May 2025
Jobs in state
990
people employed
Schools
1
with a feeder program
Avg graduation rate
41%
across those schools
Median net price
per year, IPEDS

Fields of study in Ohio that lead to this job

Grouped at the 4-digit CIP level. Numbers are graduates per year in this state.

1 programs in Ohio that lead to this job

Ranked by graduates per year in Ohio (IPEDS completions). Graduate earnings and debt are national College Scorecard figures reported at the 4-digit CIP level, so specializations within one field share a figure. Each program also links to its own Ohio page.

Degree programs that lead to this occupation, ranked by graduates per year
#ProgramGraduates / yrShare of pipelineSchoolsGrad earnings (1 yr)Median debt
1
CIP 49.0106In Ohio
19
100.0%
1$41,774$23,500

Top 1 schools in Ohio

Ranked by graduates per year into this job. Graduate earnings are reported for 0 of the 1 schools in this state.

Schools ranked by graduates per year into this occupation
#SchoolGraduates / yrTop feeder programGrad earnings (1 yr)Grad rateNet priceAcceptance
1Sinclair Community College
Dayton, OH Public · 1 feeder programs
19Airline Flight Attendant41%

All 1 schools in Ohio

Every school in Ohio with a program that feeds this job, ordered by graduates per year. Earnings are shown for the ranked schools above; open a school profile for the rest.

All schools in Ohio that feed this occupation
SchoolCityControlGraduates / yrFeeder programs
Sinclair Community CollegeDaytonPublic191

What flight attendants earn in Ohio

What people already working in this job earn (BLS OEWS May 2025). Not graduate earnings.

Median annual in Ohio
$62,440
Mean annual
$62,990
Jobs in state
990
What the range looks like
10th pct$26,590Median$62,44090th pct$95,510
Versus the national median
-1.8%

U.S. median $63,580. Ohio pays below the national figure.

Job concentration
0.21×

1.00× means the state has its expected share of these jobs.

Metro areas in Ohio

Columbus, OH
$83,450median
290 jobs

Job outlook

Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections, 2024 to 2034.

Projected growth 2024–34
+9.2%
Much faster than average
Openings per year
19,800
new jobs plus replacements
Employment change
12,100
130,800 → 142,900
Typical entry education
High school diploma or equivalent
Plus moderate-term on-the-job training

Growth and openings are national. The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish employment projections at state level, so these figures describe the occupation across the whole U.S., not this state alone.

How to get in

The full skills, tools, and day-to-day breakdown lives on the national Flight Attendants page.

How to become a Flight Attendant

Job zone 2 of 5 · SVP Below 6.0
Typical entry education
High school diploma or equivalent
Work experience needed
Less than 5 years
On-the-job training
Moderate-term on-the-job training

Usually requires a high school diploma or GED, though some occupations may not.

Some occupations may need little or no previous experience; others require several months to a year of experience. For example, landscaping and groundskeeping workers might require very little training or previous experience, while agricultural equipment operators can benefit from on-the job training.

Ranges from a few days to one year of on-the-job training.

Top skills

SpeakingMonitoringActive ListeningActive LearningCritical ThinkingReading Comprehension

The same job in other states

Where else this occupation employs the most people, and what it pays there.

Related careers in Ohio

Every major mapped to this job

The official federal mapping behind the rankings above.

All 1 majors mapped to Flight Attendants1 of them graduated someone in the latest IPEDS year. NCES CIP 2020 → SOC 2018 crosswalk.+
  • 49.0106Airline Flight Attendant

Common questions

Answers for people weighing flight attendants programs in Ohio.

What degree do you need to become a Flight Attendant?+

High school diploma or equivalent is the typical entry-level education BLS reports for this occupation. The most common program people actually graduate from is Airline Flight Attendant, which awarded 19 degrees in Ohio in 2024-25, 100.0% of everyone graduating from a program that feeds this career.

Which college majors lead to becoming a Flight Attendant?+

The NCES CIP-to-SOC crosswalk maps 1 programs to this occupation. The largest are Air Transportation. Together they graduate about 19 people a year in Ohio.

How much do flight attendants earn in Ohio?+

The median is $62,440 a year (BLS OEWS May 2025). That is 1.8% below the U.S. median of $63,580. This is pay for people already working in the occupation, not the same thing as graduate earnings one year after finishing a degree.

Is demand for flight attendants growing?+

BLS projects a +9.2% change in employment between 2024 and 2034, much faster than average, with roughly 19,800 openings a year nationally once retirements and job changes are counted.

How many schools offer programs for this career in Ohio?+

1 institutions in Ohio reported graduates from at least one of the 1 programs that feed this occupation in IPEDS 2024-25. Rankings on this page use graduates per year, because the federal data publishes no enrollment count by program.

What other job titles do flight attendants work under?+

Employers advertise this work under many names. O*NET records Purser, Flight Attendant, In-Flight Crew Member, International Flight Attendant among the most commonly reported, all mapping to SOC 53-2031.

Flight Attendants in other statesCalifornia
Programs in OhioAirline Flight Attendant

About the data on this page

Rankings use IPEDS completions 2024–25, degrees awarded per year. That is the closest federal measure of how many people a program puts into a career, because no federal dataset publishes enrollment by program. Wages and employment come from BLS OEWS May 2025, growth and openings from BLS Employment Projections 2024-34, and which majors lead to which jobs from the NCES CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 crosswalk. Occupation descriptions, tasks, skills and tools are O*NET 30.3 (CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor/ETA).

  • BLS Occupational Employment & Wage Statistics

    May 2025

    Wages, employment counts, location quotients and metro breakdowns.

  • BLS Employment Projections

    2024–34

    Projected growth, annual openings and typical entry-level education.

  • IPEDS Completions

    2024-25 (provisional)

    Graduates per year by program and institution — the ranking metric.

  • College Scorecard, Field of Study

    2020-21 cohorts

    Median graduate earnings one year after completion, and median debt.

  • Census Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes

    latest available

    Graduate earnings 1/5/10 years out, where the state participates.

  • NCES CIP 2020 and the CIP-to-SOC 2018 crosswalk

    CIP 2020 / SOC 2018

    Which college programs officially lead to this occupation.

  • O*NET Database 30.3

    30.3

    Tasks, skills, knowledge, tools, job zone and alternate job titles.

    Official source →CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor / ETA

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