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How much do Pesticide Handlers, Sprayers, and Applicators, Vegetation 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 Pesticide Handlers, Sprayers, and Applicators, Vegetation in Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ is $48,860. The 10th percentile is $45,630 and the 90th percentile is $59,000. Employment is 170.

Median annual wage

$48,860

10th percentile
$45,630
25th percentile
$47,080
Median
$48,860
75th percentile
$58,770
90th percentile
$59,000
Mean
$51,100

Annual wage from the May 2025 OEWS estimates.

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Percentile spread

For Pesticide Handlers, Sprayers, and Applicators, Vegetation, the published 10th percentile is $45,630 and the 90th percentile is $59,000. The difference is $13,370, which is 27.4% 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 $47,080 to the 75th at $58,770, covers $11,690.

The mean annual wage is $51,100, which sits above the median of $48,860. Median and mean measure different points in the same distribution.

National and state comparison

The Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ median is 5.4% higher than the national median of $46,340 for Pesticide Handlers, Sprayers, and Applicators, Vegetation. In 2024 national prices the local median is $47,292, which is 2.1% higher than that same national median. The national figure is already in national prices because the United States parity is 100.

It is 0.5% higher than the Arizona median of $48,630.

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 $48,860 by that parity and multiplying by 100 puts Pesticide Handlers, Sprayers, and Applicators, Vegetation at $47,292 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 Pesticide Handlers, Sprayers, and Applicators, Vegetation in the May 2025 tables. A wage from farther away is not filled in. When a wage is not published.

Employment share

Pesticide Handlers, Sprayers, and Applicators, Vegetation accounts for 0.01% of wage-and-salary employment in Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ (170 of 2,375,760). Nationally the occupation is 0.02% of employment (27,050 of 155,495,730). The local share is 0.41 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 · Pesticide Handlers, Sprayers, and Applicators, Vegetation 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 Pesticide Handlers, Sprayers, and Applicators, Vegetation make in Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ?

In the May 2025 OEWS estimates, released May 15, 2026, the median annual wage for Pesticide Handlers, Sprayers, and Applicators, Vegetation in Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ is $48,860. The 10th percentile is $45,630 and the 90th percentile is $59,000. Employment is 170.

How does that compare with the national median for Pesticide Handlers, Sprayers, and Applicators, Vegetation?

The local median is 5.4% higher than the national median of $46,340.

What is Pesticide Handlers, Sprayers, and Applicators, Vegetation 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 $48,860 is $47,292. The wage is May 2025 and the parity is 2024.