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Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters pay in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ and San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters is $100,520 per year in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. It is $62,610 per year in San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ is 60.5% above San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX 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 120 wage and salary jobs in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ and 50 in San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX. 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.