Occupation / job
Occupational Health and Safety Technicians
Median annual pay. Half earn less than this.
Hourly at a standard 2,080-hour year. We do not yet have unpaid-time or cost data for this, so this is not an adjusted figure.
The middle half. A quarter earn below this range.
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 · view
What this figure cannot tell you
It covers people EMPLOYED in this occupation. Anyone who trained for it and was never hired is not in the median above, and neither is anyone doing the work self-employed. No verified count of qualified people exists for this occupation, so this page shows none rather than an estimate. Why that matters · The occupations where we could source it
Who this suits
The $61,560 midpoint sits $5.54 an hour above the $50,020 typical American job. That is a 23% premium, and premiums are rationed: whatever rations this one is the thing standing between you and Occupational Health and Safety Technicians.
At 30,590 employed, this is a mid-sized occupation. In a normal city that means several possible employers and a genuine market rate, which is the point at which knowing the numbers on this page starts to be worth money.
Health and safety work suits people who can be the person slowing a job down, repeatedly, and stay steady when the room is annoyed and the schedule is the reason.
No verified preparation time is on file for Occupational Health and Safety Technicians. 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.
Who should not do this
From $52,470 to $78,850 is $2,198 a month, or 1.5x bottom quarter to top. An ordinary spread like this is mostly years and geography; assume you enter near the bottom of it and that closing the gap takes a career rather than a move.
The 25th percentile is $52,470, $2,450 above the $50,020 typical American job. A floor above the national midpoint is rare, and it is worth more than an equivalent amount of upside.
Avoid it if being unpopular on site would wear on you — the job is regularly to be the reason something stops.
There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 30,590 people employed as Occupational Health and Safety Technicians; 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.
What the spread tells you
At 1.5x between $52,470 and $78,850 this is a normally shaped occupation. $61,560 is what the middle of Occupational Health and Safety Technicians earns after the years it takes to get there, which is not the same as what it offers you now.
Put in money rather than ratios: $52,470 at the 25th percentile, $61,560 at the midpoint, $78,850 at the 75th. $26,380 separates the quarter of Occupational Health and Safety Technicians at the bottom from the quarter at the top.
The 75th percentile is $78,850. Reaching it from the $61,560 midpoint is $17,290 a year; reaching it from the $52,470 that the bottom quarter of Occupational Health and Safety Technicians earn is $26,380.
The upper half of the middle range — $61,560 to $78,850, or $17,290 — is far longer than the lower half at $9,090. In a shape like this an average would flatter Occupational Health and Safety Technicians considerably, and would describe nobody.
Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $29.59 at the midpoint for Occupational Health and Safety Technicians, $25.22 at the 25th percentile and $37.90 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.
What these figures are, and what they are not
This is payroll data: it comes from employers, about people they employ. Anyone doing the work of Occupational Health and Safety Technicians for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $61,560 describes them.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Occupational Health and Safety Technicians, the hourly figure is $61,560 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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