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Pesticide Handlers, Sprayers, and Applicators, Vegetation · SOC 37-3012

Pesticide Handlers, Sprayers, and Applicators, Vegetation Salary in the Washington Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro area

Figures describe the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not Washington city limits.

Median annual wage$44,440
Median hourly wage$21.36

Pesticide Handlers, Sprayers, and Applicators, Vegetation in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro area earned a median of $44,440 per year ($21.36 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $44,440 at the 10th percentile to $62,910 at the 90th.

Pay distribution

Half of Pesticide Handlers, Sprayers, and Applicators, Vegetation in the Washington metro area earn more than $44,440 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $44,440 and $47,730.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$44,440$44,440$44,440$47,730$62,910
Hourly$21.36$21.36$21.36$22.95$30.24

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

  • Washington metro areathis metro area
    $44,440
  • United Statesnational
    $46,340

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

The median here is −4% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

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Where this metro sits nationally

$26,220$38,477$50,733$62,990New Orleans-Metairie, LA — $26,220Baton Rouge, LA — $32,580Saginaw, MI — $33,630Port St. Lucie, FL — $35,220Jackson, MS — $35,320Great Falls, MT — $36,290Oklahoma City, OK — $36,460Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC — $36,470Billings, MT — $36,630Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC — $36,840Tallahassee, FL — $37,670Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR — $37,800Missoula, MT — $38,260Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL — $38,420Ocala, FL — $38,500Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC — $38,580Visalia, CA — $38,720Gainesville, FL — $38,890Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $38,910Grand Island, NE — $39,160Jonesboro, AR — $39,280Rapid City, SD — $39,280Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL — $39,440Fresno, CA — $39,940Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $40,390Charleston-North Charleston, SC — $40,490Modesto, CA — $40,560Bakersfield-Delano, CA — $40,750Yakima, WA — $40,880Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA — $41,140Albuquerque, NM — $41,290Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $41,390Salinas, CA — $41,540Bozeman, MT — $42,180Columbia, SC — $42,510Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT — $42,610Greeley, CO — $42,670Panama City-Panama City Beach, FL — $42,890Jacksonville, FL — $43,010Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL — $43,160Fort Collins-Loveland, CO — $43,560Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL — $43,680New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $43,680Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL — $43,840Lansing-East Lansing, MI — $43,900Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL — $43,920Madison, WI — $44,280Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR — $44,420Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $44,440Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV — $44,630Sebastian-Vero Beach-West Vero Corridor, FL — $44,690Punta Gorda, FL — $44,790Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $44,820Stockton-Lodi, CA — $44,890Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI — $44,950Pittsburgh, PA — $45,070Ogden, UT — $45,160Memphis, TN-MS-AR — $45,290Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $45,550Peoria, IL — $45,610Topeka, KS — $45,670Kennewick-Richland, WA — $45,690Naples-Marco Island, FL — $45,880Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL — $46,000Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $46,090San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $46,110Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $46,210Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $46,280Brunswick-St. Simons, GA — $46,310Fargo, ND-MN — $46,390Springfield, MO — $46,630North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL — $46,680Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $46,800Fort Wayne, IN — $46,860Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA — $46,900Sioux Falls, SD-MN — $46,930Wichita, KS — $47,010Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA — $47,100Twin Falls, ID — $47,230Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $47,260Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL — $47,310Grand Forks, ND-MN — $47,320Idaho Falls, ID — $47,320San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA — $47,430Wilmington, NC — $47,480Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $47,560Boise City, ID — $47,630Cedar Rapids, IA — $47,710Sioux City, IA-NE-SD — $47,770Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA — $47,880St. Louis, MO-IL — $47,930Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $48,140Omaha, NE-IA — $48,160Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA — $48,290Kansas City, MO-KS — $48,350Providence-Warwick, RI-MA — $48,360Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $48,860Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN — $49,040Raleigh-Cary, NC — $49,060Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $49,550Rochester, MN — $49,550Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $49,550Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $49,600Champaign-Urbana, IL — $49,740Bend, OR — $50,150Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $50,150Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $50,350Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN — $51,220Boulder, CO — $51,270Cleveland, OH — $51,640San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $54,420Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $54,530Columbus, OH — $55,830Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $58,550Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $62,990

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 Washington metro area has the 67th-highest published median for this occupation among the 115 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”.

Keep exploring

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

Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners$37,840Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers$42,700Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners$37,840First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers$50,840First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers$60,460Pest Control Workers$48,010

Highest-paying metro areas for pesticide handlers, sprayers, and applicators, vegetations · Highest-paying occupations in Washington 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.