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First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers pay in Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA and Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers is $130,790 per year in Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA. It is $95,840 per year in Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD. Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA is 36.5% above Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 47-1011 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 560 wage and salary jobs in Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA and 10,700 in Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD. 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.