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Occupational Health and Safety Technicians · SOC 19-5012

Occupational Health and Safety Technicians Salary in the San Francisco Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metro area

Figures describe the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not San Francisco city limits.

Median annual wage$80,390
Median hourly wage$38.65

Occupational Health and Safety Technicians in the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metro area earned a median of $80,390 per year ($38.65 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $50,230 at the 10th percentile to $125,900 at the 90th. BLS estimates 450 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Occupational Health and Safety Technicians in the San Francisco metro area earn more than $80,390 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $50,230 and $104,510.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$50,230$50,230$80,390$104,510$125,900
Hourly$24.15$24.15$38.65$50.24$60.53

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

  • San Francisco metro areathis metro area
    $80,390
  • Californiastate (CA)
    $61,360
  • United Statesnational
    $61,560

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

The median here is +31% vs California overall and +31% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$35,880$58,133$80,387$102,640San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR — $35,880Lincoln, NE — $44,900New Orleans-Metairie, LA — $45,690Oklahoma City, OK — $45,890Longview, TX — $46,130College Station-Bryan, TX — $46,470El Paso, TX — $47,250Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR — $48,110Topeka, KS — $48,620Tuscaloosa, AL — $49,600Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR — $49,860Slidell-Mandeville-Covington, LA — $50,180Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $50,550Columbia, SC — $50,900Cheyenne, WY — $52,940Bloomington, IN — $53,160Spartanburg, SC — $54,080Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN — $54,600Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA — $54,920Jackson, MS — $55,030Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA — $55,090Mobile, AL — $55,820Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV — $56,090San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $56,370Syracuse, NY — $56,560Fort Collins-Loveland, CO — $56,640Charleston-North Charleston, SC — $56,830Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $57,340Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL — $57,590Memphis, TN-MS-AR — $57,740Visalia, CA — $57,800Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $57,840Birmingham, AL — $57,870Lafayette, LA — $57,930Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $58,010Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA — $58,050Wichita, KS — $58,100Worcester, MA — $58,220Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $58,230Amarillo, TX — $58,300Tyler, TX — $58,390Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC — $58,560Rochester, NY — $58,850Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN — $58,870Terre Haute, IN — $58,900Boise City, ID — $58,920Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA — $59,080Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $59,080Bakersfield-Delano, CA — $59,220Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL — $59,300Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $59,310Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY — $59,320Killeen-Temple, TX — $59,350Harrisonburg, VA — $59,550Knoxville, TN — $59,610Jacksonville, FL — $59,640Fort Wayne, IN — $59,720Corpus Christi, TX — $59,860Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX — $60,010Montgomery, AL — $60,020Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $60,200Richmond, VA — $60,260Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $60,300Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA — $60,430Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN — $60,440Auburn-Opelika, AL — $60,570Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI — $60,720York-Hanover, PA — $60,750Lancaster, PA — $60,840Canton-Massillon, OH — $60,920Huntsville, AL — $61,170Evansville, IN — $61,230Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $61,230Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT — $61,290Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA — $61,340Elkhart-Goshen, IN — $61,430Greensboro-High Point, NC — $61,610Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $61,670Fayetteville, NC — $61,760Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL — $62,090Reading, PA — $62,280Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $62,310Kenosha, WI — $62,320Toledo, OH — $62,370San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $62,460Midland, TX — $62,470Burlington-South Burlington, VT — $62,570Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $62,670Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ — $63,290Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT — $63,520Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $63,610Decatur, AL — $63,780Pittsburgh, PA — $63,830Cleveland, OH — $63,980Kansas City, MO-KS — $64,130Portland-South Portland, ME — $64,240Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL — $64,560Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $64,870St. Louis, MO-IL — $64,920Columbus, OH — $64,940Tulsa, OK — $65,160Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $65,430Odessa, TX — $65,480Winston-Salem, NC — $65,680Farmington, NM — $66,370Savannah, GA — $67,100Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $67,550Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $67,760Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $67,930Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC — $68,060Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH — $68,820Modesto, CA — $69,100Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $69,980Raleigh-Cary, NC — $70,080Vallejo, CA — $70,670Reno, NV — $70,790Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $72,170Akron, OH — $72,970Durham-Chapel Hill, NC — $73,230Colorado Springs, CO — $73,470Fresno, CA — $73,530Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $73,560Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $74,400Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX — $74,620Stockton-Lodi, CA — $75,190Pueblo, CO — $75,520Madison, WI — $75,880Peoria, IL — $75,900Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $76,820New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $77,150Providence-Warwick, RI-MA — $79,820San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $80,390Albuquerque, NM — $80,630Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $81,480Las Cruces, NM — $81,800Rockford, IL — $82,600Midland, MI — $83,320Lynchburg, VA — $85,410Baton Rouge, LA — $85,610Omaha, NE-IA — $87,670Lexington-Fayette, KY — $87,870Anchorage, AK — $90,000San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA — $91,750Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT — $102,640

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 San Francisco metro area has the 13th-highest published median for this occupation among the 144 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 California

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

  • San Francisco metro areathis page
    $80,390
  • San Jose metro area
    $91,750
  • Stockton metro area
    $75,190
  • Fresno metro area
    $73,530
  • Vallejo metro area
    $70,670
  • Modesto metro area
    $69,100
  • San Diego metro area
    $62,460

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:

Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists$160,180Biological Scientists, All Other$138,160Biological Technicians$95,220Occupational Health and Safety Specialists$126,860Chemists$127,790Life, Physical, and Social Science Technicians, All Other$77,670

Highest-paying metro areas for occupational health and safety technicianss · Highest-paying occupations in San Francisco 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.