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Hazardous Materials Removal Workers · SOC 47-4041

Hazardous Materials Removal Workers Salary in the Amarillo Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Amarillo, TX metro area

Figures describe the Amarillo, TX metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not Amarillo city limits.

Median annual wage$77,580
Median hourly wage$37.30

Hazardous Materials Removal Workers in the Amarillo, TX metro area earned a median of $77,580 per year ($37.30 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $38,990 at the 10th percentile to $120,950 at the 90th. BLS estimates 120 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Hazardous Materials Removal Workers in the Amarillo metro area earn more than $77,580 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $46,450 and $96,160.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$38,990$46,450$77,580$96,160$120,950
Hourly$18.75$22.33$37.30$46.23$58.15

A percentile is a cut point: 25% of workers in this occupation and area earn less than the 25th-percentile wage. The median is the 50th percentile — half earn less, half earn more.

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How this area compares

  • Amarillo metro areathis metro area
    $77,580
  • Texasstate (TX)
    $44,390
  • United Statesnational
    $49,450

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

The median here is +75% vs Texas overall and +57% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$26,520$52,523$78,527$104,530San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR — $26,520Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR — $36,540Baton Rouge, LA — $37,070Lake Charles, LA — $37,670Mobile, AL — $37,910Jackson, MS — $38,290Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $38,440Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL — $38,450Birmingham, AL — $38,610New Orleans-Metairie, LA — $39,170Gulfport-Biloxi, MS — $39,440Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC — $40,110Waco, TX — $40,130Wichita, KS — $42,520Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR — $42,760Corpus Christi, TX — $42,970Greensboro-High Point, NC — $43,120San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $43,170Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $43,200Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL — $44,200Oklahoma City, OK — $44,340Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $44,420Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA — $44,520Reno, NV — $44,800Tulsa, OK — $44,800Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX — $44,880Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $45,140Richmond, VA — $45,190Fort Wayne, IN — $45,260Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT — $45,330Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI — $45,380Raleigh-Cary, NC — $45,410Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL — $45,430Trenton-Princeton, NJ — $45,430Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $45,600Kalamazoo-Portage, MI — $45,650Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH — $45,660Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $45,760Cleveland, OH — $45,800Lancaster, PA — $46,030Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT — $46,330Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $46,380Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN — $46,530Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC — $46,600Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA — $46,680Columbus, OH — $46,730Burlington-South Burlington, VT — $46,780Lewiston-Auburn, ME — $46,780Providence-Warwick, RI-MA — $46,790Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL — $46,800Springfield, MA — $46,880Pittsburgh, PA — $47,010North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL — $47,140Boulder, CO — $47,160Lincoln, NE — $47,220Worcester, MA — $47,250Columbia, SC — $47,380Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $47,440New Haven, CT — $47,440Portland-South Portland, ME — $47,470Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV — $47,690Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT — $47,740Jacksonville, FL — $47,780Kansas City, MO-KS — $47,780Cedar Rapids, IA — $47,820Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $47,950Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN — $48,050Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $48,070Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ — $48,190Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $48,240Salem, OR — $48,330Stockton-Lodi, CA — $48,360Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $48,390Memphis, TN-MS-AR — $48,460Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA — $48,460Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA — $48,650Boise City, ID — $48,660Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $48,870Eugene-Springfield, OR — $49,070Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $49,130Ogden, UT — $49,240Rochester, NY — $49,250Salinas, CA — $49,390Charleston-North Charleston, SC — $49,420Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA — $49,830Durham-Chapel Hill, NC — $49,850Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $49,930Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $49,950Lansing-East Lansing, MI — $50,120Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $50,190Bakersfield-Delano, CA — $50,240Omaha, NE-IA — $50,360Medford, OR — $50,430Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA — $50,490Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $50,530Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $51,160Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA — $51,260Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL — $51,300San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $51,790Toledo, OH — $52,210Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA — $52,410Sioux Falls, SD-MN — $52,670Farmington, NM — $52,760Reading, PA — $54,440Fresno, CA — $54,570Syracuse, NY — $54,870Albuquerque, NM — $55,420Chambersburg, PA — $55,470Colorado Springs, CO — $55,690Vallejo, CA — $55,960Fort Collins-Loveland, CO — $56,160Billings, MT — $56,700Greeley, CO — $57,130Anchorage, AK — $57,540Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA — $57,840Duluth, MN-WI — $58,400Urban Honolulu, HI — $58,440Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL — $58,650Chattanooga, TN-GA — $59,140Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $59,160Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $59,220Utica-Rome, NY — $59,440San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $59,580Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $59,700Bellingham, WA — $59,720Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $60,260Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $60,290Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY — $60,390San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA — $60,390Warner Robins, GA — $61,170Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $61,330Binghamton, NY — $62,090St. Louis, MO-IL — $67,010New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $74,060Knoxville, TN — $75,280Amarillo, TX — $77,580Pueblo, CO — $79,260Kennewick-Richland, WA — $104,530

Each dot is one metro area with a published median — hover any dot for the name and figure. Metros without published estimates are not drawn.

The Amarillo metro area has the 3rd-highest published median for this occupation among the 138 metro areas where BLS publishes it. Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Other metro areas in Texas

Metro areas in the same state with published May 2025 medians for hazardous materials removal workers, highest first. Areas without published estimates are not listed.

  • Amarillo metro areathis page
    $77,580
  • Austin metro area
    $44,880
  • Dallas metro area
    $44,420
  • Houston metro area
    $43,200
  • San Antonio metro area
    $43,170
  • Corpus Christi metro area
    $42,970
  • Waco metro area
    $40,130

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

Keep exploring

Other occupations in the same SOC group with published medians here, largest employment first:

Construction Laborers$38,170First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers$70,410Electricians$54,360Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators$48,850Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters$55,970Carpenters$47,780

Highest-paying metro areas for hazardous materials removal workerss · Highest-paying occupations in Amarillo Metro

About this estimate

These figures are survey estimates from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program — modeled from employer reports collected over three years and benchmarked to May 2025. They describe what employers in this area currently pay across all industries, not what any individual worker will be offered.

Employment counts wage-and-salary jobs in the occupation (self-employed workers are excluded). Estimates carry sampling error; percentile wages are rounded by BLS. Some values are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality or quality — suppressed values appear here as “not published”, never as zero. Read the full methodology.

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.