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Average Health And Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers And Inspectors Salary in Missouri

Health And Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers And Inspectors in Missouri earn a median annual salary of $73,840, which is -32.7% compared to the national median. There are 230 workers employed locally in this occupation.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey, May 2024 estimates for Missouri (state).

$73,840
Missouri median annual wage
$36/hour median
-32.7%
Difference vs national median
National median is $109,660
230
Local employment
0.1 jobs per 1,000 workers
0.51
Location quotient
Above 1.00 means the occupation is more concentrated here than nationally

Pay distribution

Local wage range

10th
$39,310
25th
$40,250
Median
$73,840
75th
$93,080
90th
$139,110

All values are percentiles of annual wages.

This local range is the useful part of the page. The median tells you the center of the market in Missouri, while the percentile band shows how compressed or wide the local pay distribution actually is.

Regional price parity

Cost-of-living context

All-items regional price parity
90.8%
Exact state RPP match
Median wage adjusted to the national price level
$81,306
Goods: 96.3%
Services: 79.4%
Rents: 69.9%

Comparison links

Comparable states for this occupation

StateMedian annual wageCompareEmployment
District of Columbia$135,810Compare130
Massachusetts$131,500Compare580
Oregon$128,760Compare150
California$125,410Compare3,010
Texas$123,020Compare3,180
Washington$121,730Compare590

The point of this table is not random nearby places. It is to show the other labor markets where this same occupation looks stronger or weaker on the same OEWS release.

Area context

Top occupations in Missouri

OccupationMedian annual wageLQ
Nurse Anesthetists$221,5501.27
Dentists, All Other Specialists$217,4000.27
Family Medicine Physicians$216,9901.21
Pediatricians, General$215,0400.21
Physicians, Pathologists$213,4302.95
Physicists$180,4500.22
Chief Executives$158,9301.01
Judges, Magistrate Judges, And Magistrates$156,2101.13

Missouri has salary data for 751 occupations. The highest-paid occupation in this area is Nurse Anesthetists.

Historical series

Trend for Health And Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers And Inspectors in Missouri

Historical trend data is not yet available for this occupation in this area.

Interpretation

Outlook and page notes

Nationally, Health And Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers And Inspectors are projected to change by +4.4% from 2024 to 2034, with 1,500 annual openings.

Use this page to answer three separate questions: what the occupation pays here, how large the local market is, and whether this market is unusually concentrated for the occupation.

For metro pages in particular, read long-term trend rows as directional until the area comparability layer is fully wired. OEWS area definitions can change over time, and that matters more at the metro level than at the state level.