Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors in Iowa
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$80,218
after federal, FICA and Iowa tax
Tax takes
$26,132
24.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$90,369
Iowa costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Iowa — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$106,350
Kept after tax
$80,218
Worth in national money
$90,369
State rank
23
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Iowa sits in the middle of the pack for this job. The median is $106,350, ranking 23 of 45 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 493 occupations Iowa reports, this job comes in at 32 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $106,350 you keep $80,218 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $90,369 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $109,390, since top earners drag the number up.
- Iowa occupies the middle band for health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers and inspectors: a median of $106,350, ranking 23 of 45. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- Health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers and inspectors ranks 32 of 493 occupations by median in Iowa, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- Retained pay in Iowa is $80,218 after the full tax stack, from $106,350. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $90,369 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $109,390 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $76,830 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $106,350 |
| Top tenth earn over | $152,830 |
| This salary | $106,350 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in Iowa | $80,218 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $83,647 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$4,290 |
The raise and the real gain point in opposite directions here.
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $101,475 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$5,926 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 89 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Iowa earn less than $106,350. The published range is $76,830 up to $152,830, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $80,218 take-home in Iowa comes from $106,350. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 32 of 493.
- Two cautions on $90,369, the adjusted value of that $106,350 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Iowa. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 32 of 493 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers and inspectors in Iowa the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $76,830 to $152,830. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $80,218, from $106,350, assumes a single Iowa filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 32 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 23 of 45 for it.
- This $90,369 adjusted figure, worked from $106,350, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 32 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 32 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $76,830 at the tenth percentile, $152,830 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Iowa sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $90,369 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and Iowa's own levy, $80,218 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 45 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($76,830 to $152,830) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Iowa rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Iowa's regional price parity is at or below the national average, so nominal wages understate purchasing power. Take-home deflated by the state price level is $90,369 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $80,218 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Iowa income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.