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Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors · SOC 17-2111

Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors Salary in the Allentown Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metro area

Figures describe the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not Allentown city limits.

Median annual wage$135,220
Median hourly wage$65.01

Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors in the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metro area earned a median of $135,220 per year ($65.01 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $76,490 at the 10th percentile to $163,200 at the 90th. BLS estimates 40 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors in the Allentown metro area earn more than $135,220 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $103,950 and $160,850.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$76,490$103,950$135,220$160,850$163,200
Hourly$36.78$49.98$65.01$77.33$78.46

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

  • Allentown metro areathis metro area
    $135,220
  • Pennsylvaniastate (PA)
    $121,730
  • United Statesnational
    $115,160

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

The median here is +11% vs Pennsylvania overall and +17% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$37,170$75,567$113,963$152,360Spartanburg, SC — $37,170Lansing-East Lansing, MI — $60,520North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL — $66,440Columbia, SC — $72,780Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL — $76,280Urban Honolulu, HI — $79,460Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN — $83,240Farmington, NM — $90,080Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL — $91,160St. Louis, MO-IL — $92,350Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $93,710Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY — $96,490Oklahoma City, OK — $97,480Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $97,870Syracuse, NY — $97,970Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $98,830Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA — $99,480Rochester, NY — $100,380Jacksonville, FL — $101,530Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $101,990Wichita, KS — $102,390Anchorage, AK — $102,690Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY — $104,640Boise City, ID — $105,150Richmond, VA — $105,530Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $105,960Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $106,490Kansas City, MO-KS — $106,540Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $106,980Longview, TX — $107,080Lexington-Fayette, KY — $108,090Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $108,500Birmingham, AL — $108,690Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI — $110,280Trenton-Princeton, NJ — $111,310Omaha, NE-IA — $111,350New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $111,380El Paso, TX — $112,240Ann Arbor, MI — $112,980Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $113,130Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT — $114,010Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $114,010Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $114,180Raleigh-Cary, NC — $115,050Albuquerque, NM — $116,280Tulsa, OK — $116,510Durham-Chapel Hill, NC — $116,780New Haven, CT — $117,550Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $118,560Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL — $118,620Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $119,080Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $119,970New Orleans-Metairie, LA — $120,580Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL — $120,660Corpus Christi, TX — $120,790Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX — $121,170San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $122,090Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $122,480Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX — $122,770Charleston-North Charleston, SC — $123,090Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $124,300Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC — $124,550San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $124,740Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $124,960Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC — $125,070Ogden, UT — $125,250Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT — $125,290Lake Charles, LA — $125,670Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $125,760Decatur, AL — $125,940Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA — $126,680Columbus, OH — $126,780Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $127,540Pittsburgh, PA — $127,640Huntsville, AL — $128,210Cleveland, OH — $128,340Fresno, CA — $128,360Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $128,600Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $129,560Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $129,820Knoxville, TN — $129,840Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $130,280Bakersfield-Delano, CA — $130,330Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $131,540Baton Rouge, LA — $132,040Chattanooga, TN-GA — $133,060Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH — $135,130Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ — $135,220Midland, TX — $137,030Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA — $137,540San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA — $143,050San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $147,220Kennewick-Richland, WA — $149,740Manchester-Nashua, NH — $152,360

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 Allentown metro area has the 7th-highest published median for this occupation among the 94 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 Pennsylvania

Metro areas in the same state with published May 2025 medians for health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers and inspectors, highest first. Areas without published estimates are not listed.

  • Allentown metro areathis page
    $135,220
  • Pittsburgh metro area
    $127,640
  • Philadelphia metro area
    $122,480

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:

Industrial Engineers$103,390Mechanical Engineers$102,980Civil Engineers$98,760Electrical Engineers$111,500Architectural and Civil Drafters$68,120Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians$64,470

Highest-paying metro areas for health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers and inspectorss · Highest-paying occupations in Allentown 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.