Occupational Employment Statistics
11-9161 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.
Northwest Minnesota
| 20 | 5 | $38.51/hr | $28.77/hr | $34.53/hr | $36.86/hr | $43.11/hr | $50.07/hr |
Minnesota
| 230 | 20 | $49.57/hr | $31.71/hr | $37.34/hr | $44.57/hr | $60.81/hr | $71.32/hr |
U S
| 11,910 | 286 | $46.15/hr | $24.79/hr | $30.84/hr | $41.35/hr | $55.25/hr | $74.64/hr |
Manufacturing | N/A | N/A |
Trade, Transportation and Utilities | 30 | $48.09/hr |
Professional and Business Services | N/A | N/A |
Education and Health Services | 50 | $40.46/hr |
Public Administration | 140 | $45.89/hr |
- Keep informed of activities or changes that could affect the likelihood of an emergency, as well as those that could affect response efforts and details of plan implementation.
- Review emergency plans of individual organizations, such as medical facilities, to ensure their adequacy.
- Maintain and update all resource materials associated with emergency preparedness plans.
- Develop and maintain liaisons with municipalities, county departments, and similar entities to facilitate plan development, response effort coordination, and exchanges of personnel and equipment.
- Develop and maintain liaisons with municipalities, county departments, and similar entities to facilitate plan development, response effort coordination, and exchanges of personnel and equipment.
- Keep informed of activities or changes that could affect the likelihood of an emergency, as well as those that could affect response efforts and details of plan implementation.
- Attend meetings, conferences, and workshops related to emergency management to learn new information and to develop working relationships with other emergency management specialists.
- Prepare emergency situation status reports that describe response and recovery efforts, needs, and preliminary damage assessments.
- Keep informed of federal, state, and local regulations affecting emergency plans and ensure that plans adhere to these regulations.
- Prepare plans that outline operating procedures to be used in response to disasters or emergencies, such as hurricanes, nuclear accidents, and terrorist attacks, and in recovery from these events.