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Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters pay in Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN and New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters is $27,400 per year in Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN. It is $100,520 per year in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN is 72.7% below New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ 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 60 wage and salary jobs in Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN and 120 in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. 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.