Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

The five rows are five different workers in the same occupation, from the 10th percentile ($62,050) to the 90th ($166,670). BLS suppresses cells that fail its reliability rules (n/p here) and caps the highest wages at $239,200+ a year or $115.00+ an hour; in this ladder that top code appears at the very top rows only.

Employment and concentration

BLS counted 23,220 Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors jobs in May 2024, which is 0.02% of all U.S. employment in the survey. Work is most concentrated in New Mexico, where the location quotient is 3.34, meaning the occupation holds 3.34 times its national share of local jobs. Texas employs the most people outright, 3,180 of them, and the three largest state employers together account for 33.5% of the national total.

One in ten workers in this field earns $62,050 or less, and one in ten earns $166,670 or more, so the top-to-bottom ratio is 2.7 to 1 and the annual gap is $104,620. The mean ($113,770) versus median ($109,660) comparison shows a right-skewed ladder where senior and specialist roles lift the average in this occupation.

Pay by state

Every state with a publishable estimate is in this table, 46 of them, sorted by jobs. The pay leader by median is District of Columbia at $135,810; the jobs leader is Texas:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors stands number 527 by employment and number 84 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Architecture and Engineering Occupations, the group median wage is $96,690 across 36 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 13% more than its group median, and it supplies 0.9% of the group's 2,567,220 jobs. In 16 of the 45 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $109,660, which is the single best quick test of whether this occupation's pay is set nationally or locally: a high count means local markets regularly outbid the national figure.

Metropolitan areas: where the jobs and the pay sit

Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX is the largest metro employer with 1,440 jobs, 6.2% of the national total. Two rankings follow across the 115 metros BLS publishes for this occupation: where the jobs are, then where the money is, with the pay ranking restricted to metros employing at least 500 people in this occupation to keep small samples out of the lead.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $101,010 a year, against $134,630 in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX. The lowest-paying large metro and the highest are both real markets for this occupation; the difference between them is the geography premium, or penalty, in cash terms.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

As a household number, $109,660 a year is $9,138 a month gross, $4,218 every two weeks, $2,109 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($85,400) to the 75th ($136,150) is worth $50,750 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. The next step from a gross figure is a net one: run the $9,138 monthly figure through the paycheck calculator applies your state's taxes, the salary calculator compares two offers in any unit, and the raise vs inflation calculator tells you whether a nominal raise is a real one.

To place a real offer: a salary of $120,626 would sit between the median ($109,660) and the 75th percentile ($136,150), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $85,400, is $24,260 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Sibling occupations in Architecture and Engineering Occupations: Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians, Aerospace Engineers, Engineering Technologists and Technicians, Except Drafters, All Other, Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians, Surveying and Mapping Technicians, Surveyors. Medians there are computed identically, so the comparison is apples to apples; the full set lives on the Careers hub.