How much do Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters make in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC?

Percentile spread

For Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters, the published 10th percentile is $64,990 and the 90th percentile is $102,190. The difference is $37,200, which is 42.8% of the median. Ten percent of measured wages fall below the 10th percentile and ten percent fall above the 90th. How to read a percentile.

The middle half of the distribution, from the 25th percentile at $79,460 to the 75th at $96,790, covers $17,330.

The mean annual wage is $87,690, which sits above the median of $86,900. Median and mean measure different points in the same distribution.

National and state comparison

The Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC median is 41.6% higher than the national median of $61,390 for Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters. In 2024 national prices the local median is $89,267, which is 45.4% higher than that same national median. The national figure is already in national prices because the United States parity is 100.

It is 1.5% higher than the North Carolina median of $85,630.

Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC covers more than one state. The state comparison uses North Carolina, the primary state on the BLS area record.

Price-adjusted pay

The 2024 all-items regional price parity for Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC is 97.348, with the United States at 100. The Bureau of Economic Analysis released those parities on February 19, 2026. Dividing the May 2025 median of $86,900 by that parity and multiplying by 100 puts Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters at $89,267 in national prices. The wage year and the price year are different. Compare this wage after prices.

Nearby metros

No other metropolitan area within 200 miles has a published annual median for Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters in the May 2025 tables. A wage from farther away is not filled in. When a wage is not published.

Employment share

Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters accounts for 0.00% of wage-and-salary employment in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC (60 of 1,358,370). Nationally the occupation is 0.00% of employment (5,100 of 155,495,730). The local share is 1.35 times the national share. That ratio is the location quotient computed from these May 2025 employment counts. It is not copied from the location-quotient column in the BLS bulk file.