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Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors in Hawaii
The bar runs from the 10th to the 90th percentile; the darker part is the middle half of earners.
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The spread
How pay for this job is spread here: higher means more people earn around that amount, and the darker middle is the middle half of earners. The dots are BLS's published 10th, 25th, median, 75th and 90th percentiles; the curve between them is our smooth estimate. Hover or tap a dot for its figure.
This job is less common here than nationally: 0.1 in every 1,000 jobs (location quotient 0.81).
Where this job pays most
Median an hour by state, from lower to higher pay as in the key below. Hover or tap a state for its figure. Living costs differ too, so a higher wage is not always more to spend.
- AL, Alabama, median $50.71
- AK, Alaska, median $49.37
- AZ, Arizona, median $51.14
- AR, Arkansas, median $48.84
- CA, California, median $63.24
- CO, Colorado, median $58.15
- CT, Connecticut, median $55.60
- DE, Delaware, median $56.94
- DC, District of Columbia, not published
- FL, Florida, median $48.94
- GA, Georgia, median $50.91
- HI, Hawaii, median $39.57
- ID, Idaho, median $47.53
- IL, Illinois, median $53.54
- IN, Indiana, median $40.02
- IA, Iowa, median $51.13
- KS, Kansas, median $49.37
- KY, Kentucky, median $51.81
- LA, Louisiana, median $56.97
- ME, Maine, median $39.49
- MD, Maryland, median $53.34
- MA, Massachusetts, median $63.08
- MI, Michigan, median $51.82
- MN, Minnesota, median $57.72
- MS, Mississippi, median $41.91
- MO, Missouri, median $43.18
- MT, Montana, median $46.96
- NE, Nebraska, median $49.63
- NV, Nevada, median $58.49
- NH, New Hampshire, median $62.74
- NJ, New Jersey, median $57.39
- NM, New Mexico, median $45.50
- NY, New York, median $48.70
- NC, North Carolina, median $51.34
- ND, North Dakota, not published
- OH, Ohio, median $62.29
- OK, Oklahoma, median $49.47
- OR, Oregon, median $55.78
- PA, Pennsylvania, median $58.52
- RI, Rhode Island, median $45.49
- SC, South Carolina, median $50.06
- SD, South Dakota, not published
- TN, Tennessee, not published
- TX, Texas, median $59.34
- UT, Utah, median $51.44
- VT, Vermont, not published
- VA, Virginia, median $50.44
- WA, Washington, median $60.86
- WV, West Virginia, median $36.87
- WI, Wisconsin, median $44.57
- WY, Wyoming, not published
- PR, Puerto Rico, not published
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