Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors in Maryland
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$81,886
after federal, FICA and Maryland tax
Tax takes
$29,064
26.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$78,763
Maryland costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Maryland — 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
$110,950
Kept after tax
$81,886
Worth in national money
$78,763
State rank
17
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Maryland pays this job around $110,950 at the midpoint, 17 of 45 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in Maryland. It ranks 68 out of 489 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $110,950, tax leaves $81,886 — and because Maryland is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $78,763 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $121,700, since top earners drag the number up.
- For health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers and inspectors the Maryland median is $110,950, ranking 17 of 45 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Within Maryland, health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers and inspectors ranks 68 of 489 occupations by median pay, placing it in the top quartile of the local distribution. This is the comparison a resident actually makes — against neighbors rather than against the same job elsewhere.
- After tax, $81,886 remains from the Maryland median of $110,950 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $78,763 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $121,700 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 | $78,990 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $110,950 |
| Top tenth earn over | $181,640 |
| This salary | $110,950 |
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 Maryland | $81,886 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $86,883 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$10,646 |
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 | $103,846 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$14,706 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 104 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers and inspectors in Maryland earn under $110,950 and half over. The published range runs $78,990 at the tenth percentile to $181,640 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $81,886 take-home in Maryland comes from $110,950. 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 68 of 489.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $78,763 uses one figure for the whole of Maryland. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 489 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 68.
- Figures are distribution medians for health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers and inspectors in Maryland, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $78,990 to $181,640; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- Retained pay of $81,886, from $110,950, assumes a single Maryland 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 68 of 489 locally, and the state ranks 17 of 45 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $78,763, worked from $110,950, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Maryland address, on work sitting at 68 of 489 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $121,700 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $78,990 and the top tenth $181,640 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $78,763 of national purchasing power.
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 Maryland's own levy, $81,886 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 45 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in Maryland is $121,700. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($78,990) and the ninetieth ($181,640) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Maryland's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $78,763 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $81,886 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Maryland 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.