SOC 47-4041 · Construction and Extraction Occupations · May 2025

How much do Hazardous Materials Removal Workers make in Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ?

In the May 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics estimates, released May 15, 2026, the median annual wage for Hazardous Materials Removal Workers in Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ is $50,530. The 10th percentile is $37,730 and the 90th percentile is $60,680. Employment is 680.

Median annual wage

$50,530

10th percentile
$37,730
25th percentile
$46,790
Median
$50,530
75th percentile
$51,220
90th percentile
$60,680
Mean
$49,670

Annual wage from the May 2025 OEWS estimates.

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Cooks in a Washington state kitchen, 1930. Seattle Municipal Archives. Photograph by Seattle Municipal Archives. Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0

Percentile spread

For Hazardous Materials Removal Workers, the published 10th percentile is $37,730 and the 90th percentile is $60,680. The difference is $22,950, which is 45.4% 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 $46,790 to the 75th at $51,220, covers $4,430.

The mean annual wage is $49,670, which sits below the median of $50,530. Median and mean measure different points in the same distribution.

National and state comparison

The Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ median is 2.2% higher than the national median of $49,450 for Hazardous Materials Removal Workers. In 2024 national prices the local median is $48,908, which is 1.1% lower than that same national median. The national figure is already in national prices because the United States parity is 100.

It is about the same as the Arizona median of $50,530.

Price-adjusted pay

The 2024 all-items regional price parity for Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ is 103.316, with the United States at 100. The Bureau of Economic Analysis released those parities on February 19, 2026. Dividing the May 2025 median of $50,530 by that parity and multiplying by 100 puts Hazardous Materials Removal Workers at $48,908 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 Hazardous Materials Removal Workers in the May 2025 tables. A wage from farther away is not filled in. When a wage is not published.

Employment share

Hazardous Materials Removal Workers accounts for 0.03% of wage-and-salary employment in Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ (680 of 2,375,760). Nationally the occupation is 0.03% of employment (51,710 of 155,495,730). The local share is 0.86 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.

Highest-paying jobs in Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ · Hazardous Materials Removal Workers by metro · How to read these percentiles · Median and mean · When a wage is not published · How the figures are made · Compare this wage after prices

Questions this page answers

How much do Hazardous Materials Removal Workers make in Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ?

In the May 2025 OEWS estimates, released May 15, 2026, the median annual wage for Hazardous Materials Removal Workers in Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ is $50,530. The 10th percentile is $37,730 and the 90th percentile is $60,680. Employment is 680.

How does that compare with the national median for Hazardous Materials Removal Workers?

The local median is 2.2% higher than the national median of $49,450.

What is Hazardous Materials Removal Workers pay in Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ after local prices?

The 2024 all-items regional price parity for Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ is 103.316, with the United States at 100. In those national prices, the May 2025 median of $50,530 is $48,908. The wage is May 2025 and the parity is 2024.