Forest Fire Inspectors and Prevention Specialists

Forest Fire Inspectors and Prevention Specialists pays $56,870 against $50,020 across all occupations, which is $570 a month ahead. A modest premium, and modest premiums are usually attached to modest requirements — check what this one is attached to.

Employment as Forest Fire Inspectors and Prevention Specialists stands at 2,780. That is small enough that your local market may have a dozen posts in total; mobility will matter more to your earnings than seniority does.

Firefighting and prevention suit people who function on long shifts in a crew they live with, and who accept that the training volume is high relative to how often it is used.

How long it takes to become one of the 2,780 people doing this is not something we have a source for. BLS counts and pays them; it does not record how they got there, and we would rather say so than guess.

The quarters sit at $43,760 and $81,500 — 1.9x, or $3,145 a month apart. At that width the occupation contains genuinely different jobs, and which one you are being offered matters more than the title does.

A quarter of Forest Fire Inspectors and Prevention Specialists earn less than $43,760, $6,260 off the $50,020 national midpoint — $21.03 an hour. The floor here is close enough to ordinary that the case against this work, if there is one, is not financial.

Avoid it if the cumulative exposure worries you — the long-run health record of this work is a real part of the decision.

You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 2,780 is a headcount of the employed, which is a numerator without a denominator — everyone who qualified and never got hired is missing from it, and we will not estimate them to complete a percentage.

From $43,760 to $81,500 at a ratio of 1.9x is wide enough that two people with the same job title have materially different jobs. $56,870 sits in the middle of that and describes neither of them especially well.

Put in money rather than ratios: $43,760 at the 25th percentile, $56,870 at the midpoint, $81,500 at the 75th. $37,740 separates the quarter of Forest Fire Inspectors and Prevention Specialists at the bottom from the quarter at the top.

Between $43,760 and $81,500 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $56,870. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $24,630; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $37,740.

The distance from the midpoint up to $81,500 is $24,630 — well over the $13,110 down to $43,760. Distributions leaning this way mean the median understates what the upper half of Forest Fire Inspectors and Prevention Specialists earns, and half the field is in that upper half.

Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $27.34 at the midpoint for Forest Fire Inspectors and Prevention Specialists, $21.03 at the 25th percentile and $39.18 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.