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Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors pay in California and Oklahoma
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors is $131,540 per year in California. It is $102,890 per year in Oklahoma. California is 27.8% above Oklahoma on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 17-2111 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 2,470 wage and salary jobs in California and 620 in Oklahoma. 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