Fallers

$52,100 against a $50,020 all-occupation midpoint — $2,080 apart. Fallers pays what the average job pays, so the decision has to be made on the work, the entry cost and the spread rather than on the wage.

With 3,130 employed nationally, Fallers is a small occupation. Small occupations are quiet: few postings, slow turnover, and a real chance that the person you would replace is not going anywhere.

Forestry, conservation and logging suit people who want to work outdoors in remote places and are serious about the safety discipline the equipment demands.

No verified preparation time is on file for Fallers. The wage survey behind every figure on this page asks employers what they pay, not what they required, so the honest answer here is that we do not know.

A quarter earn below $41,360 and a quarter above $63,390: a 1.5x ratio, $22,030 between the ends. That is an ordinary working spread, which also means experience and location explain most of it and there is no shortcut through the middle.

Even the bottom quarter, under $41,360, lands within $8,660 of the $50,020 typical American wage. The downside of Fallers is not really the money.

Avoid it if remote work sites and a genuinely elevated injury risk are not acceptable terms for you.

There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 3,130 people employed as Fallers; it did not count the people who trained for it and are doing something else, and a rate built without that denominator would be a number we made up.

A 1.5x ratio is the most common shape in this data: some room to move, none of it quick. Read $52,100 as where you might be after years in Fallers, and $41,360 as where you would start.

In cash terms the middle half of Fallers runs $41,360 to $63,390 — $22,030 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $52,100.

Between $41,360 and $63,390 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $52,100. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $11,290; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $22,030.

$52,100 sits almost exactly in the middle of its own range — $10,740 above the bottom quarter, $11,290 below the top one. A symmetric distribution like this is the case where the median genuinely does describe the typical person.

Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $19.88 at the bottom quarter, $25.04 at the midpoint, $30.47 at the top quarter. The typical American job works out at $24.04 on the same basis.