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Emergency Management Directors
Plan and direct disaster response or crisis management activities, provide disaster preparedness training, and prepare emergency plans and procedures for natural (e.g., hurricanes, floods, earthquakes), wartime, or technological (e.g., nuclear power plant emergencies or hazardous materials spills) disasters or hostage situations.
What an emergency management director does
Become an emergency management director
If you enjoy doing these activities, you might make a good emergency management director
- Talking to others.
- Keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements.
- Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.
- Looking for ways to help people.
- Changing what is done based on other people's actions.
Discover what you could earn in Washington
- Typical hourly rate is $46 per hour with a typical salary of $90,900 per year.
- Half of workers earn between $38 and $63 per hour.
- Half of workers earn an annual salary between $32,500 and $100,000 per year.
- 58% of individuals in this occupation have been employed in every quarter of the past year.
Part-time
- The typical hourly rate for part-time workers is $32 per hour with a typical salary of $30,700 per year.
- 36.2% of individuals in this occupation worked part-time during the past year.
Emergency Management Director job outlook
- There are 139 workers in this occupation in Washington.
- There are 29 openings per year in this occupation in Washington.
Multiple Jobs
- 1% of individuals in this occupation worked for more than one employer.
- 14% of individuals in this occupation held a position in another.