Occupational Health and Safety Technicians in Washington
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$82,634
after federal, FICA and Washington tax
Tax takes
$22,276
21.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$76,117
Washington costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Washington — 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
$104,910
Kept after tax
$82,634
Worth in national money
$76,117
State rank
1
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Washington's middle earner gets $104,910, putting the state 1 of 48 — about 70.42% ahead of the national figure.
- Within Washington this is well-paid work. Of 493 occupations with published figures in the state, this job ranks 95 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- Washington is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $104,910 the take-home is $82,634; in national-average money that behaves like $76,117. The average lands at $93,120, below the middle of the range.
- For occupational health and safety technicians, Washington sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $104,910, ranking 1 of 48 and running about 70.42% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Ranked against every occupation Washington publishes a median for, occupational health and safety technicians sits 95 of 493 — the upper quartile of the state's wage distribution. National standing and within-state standing are separate questions, and a job can occupy very different positions on each.
- Take-home for occupational health and safety technicians in Washington, on $104,910, is $82,634; deflated by the state's price level, $76,117. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $93,120 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Occupational Health and Safety Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $58,010 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $104,910 |
| Top tenth earn over | $119,920 |
| This salary | $104,910 |
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 Washington | $82,634 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $82,634 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$8,919 |
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 | $104,910 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$12,320 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $104,910 as a midpoint for Washington, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $58,010 and the ninetieth is $119,920 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Washington the take-home figure of $82,634, from $104,910, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 95 of 493 occupations here.
- One number stands for prices across all of Washington, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $76,117, the adjusted value of that $104,910 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 95 of 493 in the state.
- The Washington median of $104,910 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $58,010 to $119,920. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for Washington is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $82,634 from $104,910. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 95 of 493 locally.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Washington, so $76,117 — the adjusted value of that $104,910 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 95 of 493 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 $93,120 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $58,010 and the top tenth $119,920, so most people doing this work in Washington sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $76,117 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $82,634 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 48 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 Washington is $93,120. 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 is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($58,010 to $119,920) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Washington rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Washington's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $76,117 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Washington levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $82,634 reflects the federal layer and FICA alone. Federal income tax and FICA are unchanged; states without a wage income tax generally recover revenue through consumption and property bases instead.
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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.