Occupational Health and Safety Technicians · SOC 19-5012

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Occupational Health and Safety Technicianss

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025U.S. metropolitan areas

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for occupational health and safety technicians. Areas where BLS suppressed the median are not ranked. Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Top 25 of 144 metro areas

Occupational Health and Safety Technicians: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT	$102,640	40	0.1
2	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$91,750	130	0.1
3	Anchorage, AK	$90,000	60	0.3
4	Lexington-Fayette, KY	$87,870	140	0.5
5	Omaha, NE-IA	$87,670	70	0.1
6	Baton Rouge, LA	$85,610	230	0.6
7	Lynchburg, VA	$85,410	60	0.6
8	Midland, MI	$83,320	40	1.0
9	Rockford, IL	$82,600	30	0.2
10	Las Cruces, NM	$81,800	30	0.4
11	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$81,480	190	0.1
12	Albuquerque, NM	$80,630	350	0.9
13	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$80,390	450	0.2
14	Providence-Warwick, RI-MA	$79,820	70	0.1
15	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$77,150	1,090	0.1
16	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$76,820	220	0.1
17	Peoria, IL	$75,900	60	0.3
18	Madison, WI	$75,880	60	0.2
19	Pueblo, CO	$75,520	40	0.7
20	Stockton-Lodi, CA	$75,190	100	0.4
21	Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX	$74,620	70	0.4
22	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$74,400	120	0.1
23	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$73,560	250	0.1
24	Fresno, CA	$73,530	70	0.2
25	Colorado Springs, CO	$73,470	30	0.1

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Occupational Health and Safety Technicians overview.

About this data. Estimates are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 release, retrieved from bls.gov/oes/tables.htm on July 24, 2026. OEWS estimates describe metropolitan/nonmetropolitan areas and states — not city limits — and are not designed for year-over-year comparisons. See BLS methodology, our plain-English methodology, and sources. CitySalaryData is independent and not affiliated with BLS.