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Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters pay in Alabama and New Jersey
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters is $59,820 per year in Alabama. It is $100,520 per year in New Jersey. Alabama is 40.5% below New Jersey on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 47-5032 and the same annual wage metric. Median means the middle of each area's published wage spread. It is not one worker's pay. The larger median is not proof that one place gives a better job or a better result. It is one wage fact from one source period.
BLS lists 100 wage and salary jobs in Alabama and Not published in New Jersey. Those are survey job counts, not open posts. Read pay, job scale, local share, and price level as separate facts before you make a choice.
Evidence: bls-oews-may-2025 · Rule: same-soc-same-metric-pair · nominal-median-gap · employment-not-openings