19 Series · SOC 19-4031

Chemical Technicians

National salary data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (May 2024)

Median Salary

$57,790

per year

Median Hourly

$27.78/hr

per hour

Mean Salary

$61,300

average

Employment

55,640

jobs nationwide

Salary Range

Annual Salary Distribution

$39,030$46,680$57,790$72,940$90,990
10th pct25thMedian75th90th pct

Hourly Rate Distribution

$18.76$22.44$27.78$35.07$43.75
10th pct25thMedian75th90th pct

10th Percentile

$39,030

25th Percentile

$46,680

Median

$57,790

75th Percentile

$72,940

90th Percentile

$90,990

Salary by State

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# State Median Salary vs National
1 Louisiana $83,480 +44% above national
2 Delaware $64,930 +12% above national
3 Massachusetts $64,920 +12% above national
4 Colorado $64,540 +12% above national
5 Texas $64,520 +12% above national
6 Oklahoma $63,880 +11% above national
7 West Virginia $63,820 +10% above national
8 Arizona $63,030 +9% above national
9 New Mexico $62,610 +8% above national
10 Illinois $61,830 +7% above national
11 Alaska $61,380 +6% above national
12 Vermont $60,930 +5% above national
13 South Carolina $59,530 +3% above national
14 Nebraska $59,180 +2% above national
15 Pennsylvania $59,130 +2% above national
16 Missouri $58,690 +2% above national
17 New York $57,720 same as national
18 Michigan $57,680 same as national
19 New Jersey $57,640 same as national
20 Wisconsin $56,960 1% below national
21 California $56,620 2% below national
22 Washington $55,940 3% below national
23 Kansas $55,480 4% below national
24 Idaho $55,060 5% below national
25 Kentucky $55,010 5% below national
26 Ohio $54,710 5% below national
27 Minnesota $54,340 6% below national
28 Mississippi $54,100 6% below national
29 North Dakota $53,270 8% below national
30 Utah $52,890 8% below national
31 Alabama $52,680 9% below national
32 Wyoming $52,520 9% below national
33 Iowa $52,200 10% below national
34 Indiana $51,980 10% below national
35 Georgia $51,840 10% below national
36 Tennessee $51,030 12% below national
37 Connecticut $50,910 12% below national
38 Virginia $50,660 12% below national
39 Nevada $50,250 13% below national
40 Montana $50,160 13% below national
41 Oregon $49,920 14% below national
42 Rhode Island $49,720 14% below national
43 North Carolina $48,870 15% below national
44 District of Columbia $48,740 16% below national
45 South Dakota $47,970 17% below national
46 Maryland $47,760 17% below national
47 Maine $47,340 18% below national
48 New Hampshire $47,240 18% below national
49 Florida $46,870 19% below national
50 Arkansas $46,720 19% below national
51 Puerto Rico $34,470 40% below national

Salary by Metro Area

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# Metro Area Median Salary vs National
1 Dothan, AL $128,190 +122% above national
2 Southern South Carolina nonmetropolitan area $88,990 +54% above national
3 New Orleans-Metairie, LA $88,800 +54% above national
4 Baton Rouge, LA $86,360 +49% above national
5 Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX $83,530 +45% above national
6 Lake Charles, LA $81,710 +41% above national
7 Western Wyoming nonmetropolitan area $81,630 +41% above national
8 Springfield, MA $81,070 +40% above national
9 Northwestern Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area $78,980 +37% above national
10 Eastern New Mexico nonmetropolitan area $78,390 +36% above national
11 Southwest Oklahoma nonmetropolitan area $78,110 +35% above national
12 Midland, MI $77,810 +35% above national
13 Balance of Nevada nonmetropolitan area $76,260 +32% above national
14 Corpus Christi, TX $75,890 +31% above national
15 Duluth, MN-WI $75,870 +31% above national
16 Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX $74,620 +29% above national
17 Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC $70,400 +22% above national
18 Eastern Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area $69,840 +21% above national
19 Northeast Oklahoma nonmetropolitan area $69,380 +20% above national
20 Hill Country Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area $68,790 +19% above national
21 Joplin, MO-KS $68,720 +19% above national
22 Shreveport-Bossier City, LA $68,460 +18% above national
23 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA $68,000 +18% above national
24 Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL $67,600 +17% above national
25 Lafayette, LA $66,790 +16% above national
26 Fort Collins-Loveland, CO $66,690 +15% above national
27 Alaska nonmetropolitan area $65,990 +14% above national
28 Mid Michigan nonmetropolitan area $65,250 +13% above national
29 Amherst Town-Northampton, MA $65,030 +13% above national
30 Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH $65,000 +12% above national
31 Boulder, CO $64,860 +12% above national
32 Sheboygan, WI $64,530 +12% above national
33 Southeast Oklahoma nonmetropolitan area $64,490 +12% above national
34 Tulsa, OK $63,520 +10% above national
35 Terre Haute, IN $63,460 +10% above national
36 Bay City, MI $63,370 +10% above national
37 Columbia, MO $63,310 +10% above national
38 Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD $63,200 +9% above national
39 Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV $63,160 +9% above national
40 South Nebraska nonmetropolitan area $62,880 +9% above national
41 Lansing-East Lansing, MI $62,750 +9% above national
42 West Kentucky nonmetropolitan area $62,670 +8% above national
43 Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO $62,570 +8% above national
44 Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN $62,520 +8% above national
45 Northeastern Pennsylvania nonmetropolitan area $62,490 +8% above national
46 Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA $62,480 +8% above national
47 Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ $62,230 +8% above national
48 Mobile, AL $62,220 +8% above national
49 Bellingham, WA $62,030 +7% above national
50 Burlington-South Burlington, VT $62,020 +7% above national
51 Tallahassee, FL $61,980 +7% above national
52 Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX $61,830 +7% above national
53 Colorado Springs, CO $61,720 +7% above national
54 San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA $61,670 +7% above national
55 Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ $61,600 +7% above national
56 Decatur, AL $61,420 +6% above national
57 Eugene-Springfield, OR $61,420 +6% above national
58 Columbia, SC $61,320 +6% above national
59 Northwest Illinois nonmetropolitan area $61,230 +6% above national
60 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX $61,190 +6% above national
61 Oklahoma City, OK $61,100 +6% above national
62 Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY $60,940 +5% above national
63 Charleston-North Charleston, SC $60,790 +5% above national
64 Pittsburgh, PA $60,690 +5% above national
65 Southern Michigan nonmetropolitan area $60,630 +5% above national
66 Connecticut nonmetropolitan area $60,360 +4% above national
67 Boise City, ID $60,340 +4% above national
68 Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV $60,340 +4% above national
69 Lower East Mississippi nonmetropolitan area $60,290 +4% above national
70 Madison, WI $60,280 +4% above national
71 St. Louis, MO-IL $60,250 +4% above national
72 Worcester, MA $60,040 +4% above national
73 Lynchburg, VA $60,020 +4% above national
74 Greensboro-High Point, NC $60,010 +4% above national
75 Central Kentucky nonmetropolitan area $59,930 +4% above national
76 Jackson, MS $59,790 +3% above national
77 West Northwestern Ohio nonmetropolitan area $59,700 +3% above national
78 Toledo, OH $59,630 +3% above national
79 Longview, TX $59,570 +3% above national
80 New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ $59,450 +3% above national
81 Omaha, NE-IA $59,190 +2% above national
82 Columbus, OH $59,150 +2% above national
83 Reading, PA $59,140 +2% above national
84 Kennewick-Richland, WA $58,820 +2% above national
85 Northeastern Wisconsin nonmetropolitan area $58,750 +2% above national
86 Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA $58,690 +2% above national
87 Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC $58,640 +1% above national
88 Syracuse, NY $58,590 +1% above national
89 Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI $58,440 +1% above national
90 Vallejo, CA $58,320 +1% above national
91 Midland, TX $58,290 +1% above national
92 North Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area $57,970 same as national
93 Lubbock, TX $57,940 same as national
94 Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN $57,780 same as national
95 Southern Indiana nonmetropolitan area $57,780 same as national
96 Southwest Alabama nonmetropolitan area $57,710 same as national
97 Central Pennsylvania nonmetropolitan area $57,630 same as national
98 Cleveland, OH $57,300 1% below national
99 Kansas City, MO-KS $57,210 1% below national
100 Salt Lake City-Murray, UT $57,160 1% below national
101 Southwest New York nonmetropolitan area $57,060 1% below national
102 Greeley, CO $56,510 2% below national
103 Eastern Ohio nonmetropolitan area $56,460 2% below national
104 Sandusky, OH $56,450 2% below national
105 Fort Wayne, IN $56,430 2% below national
106 Northern West Virginia nonmetropolitan area $56,220 3% below national
107 Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA $56,160 3% below national
108 Billings, MT $56,150 3% below national
109 Peoria, IL $55,950 3% below national
110 Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL $55,920 3% below national
111 New Haven, CT $55,650 4% below national
112 Modesto, CA $55,310 4% below national
113 Cedar Rapids, IA $55,220 4% below national
114 Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI $55,120 5% below national
115 Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA $55,040 5% below national
116 Memphis, TN-MS-AR $55,030 5% below national
117 Central Indiana nonmetropolitan area $54,960 5% below national
118 Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY $54,830 5% below national
119 Youngstown-Warren, OH $54,710 5% below national
120 Northeast Alabama nonmetropolitan area $54,620 5% below national
121 Tuscaloosa, AL $54,570 6% below national
122 Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL $54,400 6% below national
123 North Arkansas nonmetropolitan area $54,320 6% below national
124 Providence-Warwick, RI-MA $54,230 6% below national
125 Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC $53,990 7% below national
126 Northwest Minnesota nonmetropolitan area $53,920 7% below national
127 South Illinois nonmetropolitan area $53,800 7% below national
128 Napa, CA $53,710 7% below national
129 Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA $53,420 8% below national
130 West North Dakota nonmetropolitan area $53,270 8% below national
131 Missoula, MT $53,260 8% below national
132 Northeast Iowa nonmetropolitan area $53,240 8% below national
133 San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA $53,090 8% below national
134 Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH $52,970 8% below national
135 York-Hanover, PA $52,970 8% below national
136 Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN $52,940 8% below national
137 Medford, OR $52,650 9% below national
138 Richmond, VA $52,520 9% below national
139 Trenton-Princeton, NJ $52,290 10% below national
140 Northwest Iowa nonmetropolitan area $52,210 10% below national
141 Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN $51,980 10% below national
142 Central East New York nonmetropolitan area $51,850 10% below national
143 Northeast Nebraska nonmetropolitan area $51,750 10% below national
144 San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX $51,740 10% below national
145 North Northeastern Ohio nonmetropolitan area (noncontiguous) $51,740 10% below national
146 Lincoln, NE $51,650 11% below national
147 Upper East Mississippi nonmetropolitan area $51,630 11% below national
148 Durham-Chapel Hill, NC $51,560 11% below national
149 Spartanburg, SC $51,470 11% below national
150 Texarkana, TX-AR $51,320 11% below national
151 Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN $51,230 11% below national
152 North Coast Region of California nonmetropolitan area $51,180 11% below national
153 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA $51,140 12% below national
154 Bakersfield-Delano, CA $50,950 12% below national
155 Ogden, UT $50,920 12% below national
156 Waterbury-Shelton, CT $50,910 12% below national
157 Rochester, NY $50,890 12% below national
158 Huntsville, AL $50,880 12% below national
159 San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA $50,800 12% below national
160 Waco, TX $50,760 12% below national
161 Canton-Massillon, OH $50,740 12% below national
162 Ames, IA $50,600 12% below national
163 Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY $50,590 12% below national
164 Wilmington, NC $50,520 13% below national
165 Northwestern South Carolina nonmetropolitan area $50,510 13% below national
166 Killeen-Temple, TX $50,430 13% below national
167 Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT $50,360 13% below national
168 Akron, OH $50,330 13% below national
169 Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA $50,230 13% below national
170 Jackson, TN $50,070 13% below national
171 Northern Indiana nonmetropolitan area $50,040 13% below national
172 Cleveland, TN $49,900 14% below national
173 Knoxville, TN $49,860 14% below national
174 Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA $49,850 14% below national
175 Johnson City, TN $49,750 14% below national
176 Eastern North Carolina nonmetropolitan area $49,750 14% below national
177 Raleigh-Cary, NC $49,740 14% below national
178 Charlottesville, VA $49,660 14% below national
179 South Central Wisconsin nonmetropolitan area $49,540 14% below national
180 Northwest Oklahoma nonmetropolitan area $49,530 14% below national
181 Bloomington, IN $49,370 15% below national
182 Odessa, TX $49,240 15% below national
183 Green Bay, WI $49,220 15% below national
184 Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA $49,220 15% below national
185 Northwest Colorado nonmetropolitan area $49,190 15% below national
186 Winston-Salem, NC $49,120 15% below national
187 Southeast Iowa nonmetropolitan area $49,110 15% below national
188 Anchorage, AK $49,090 15% below national
189 Gainesville, FL $49,030 15% below national
190 Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL $48,980 15% below national
191 Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA $48,900 15% below national
192 Central North Carolina nonmetropolitan area $48,890 15% below national
193 Lexington-Fayette, KY $48,830 16% below national
194 Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI $48,790 16% below national
195 Reno, NV $48,730 16% below national
196 Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI $48,680 16% below national
197 Wichita, KS $48,650 16% below national
198 Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA $48,630 16% below national
199 South Arkansas nonmetropolitan area $48,580 16% below national
200 Ann Arbor, MI $48,490 16% below national
201 South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI $48,480 16% below national
202 Chattanooga, TN-GA $48,420 16% below national
203 Dalton, GA $48,390 16% below national
204 Jacksonville, FL $48,360 16% below national
205 East South Dakota nonmetropolitan area $48,220 17% below national
206 Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC $48,090 17% below national
207 Stockton-Lodi, CA $48,020 17% below national
208 Southwest Virginia nonmetropolitan area $47,940 17% below national
209 Visalia, CA $47,870 17% below national
210 Birmingham, AL $47,860 17% below national
211 Kansas nonmetropolitan area $47,820 17% below national
212 Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN $47,730 17% below national
213 Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL $47,700 17% below national
214 Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC $47,630 18% below national
215 Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH $47,590 18% below national
216 Clarksville, TN-KY $47,580 18% below national
217 Southeast Alabama nonmetropolitan area $47,580 18% below national
218 Northern Michigan nonmetropolitan area $47,530 18% below national
219 Eastern Wyoming nonmetropolitan area $47,430 18% below national
220 Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA $47,290 18% below national
221 Binghamton, NY $47,250 18% below national
222 Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT $47,200 18% below national
223 Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD $47,160 18% below national
224 Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV $47,140 18% below national
225 Manchester-Nashua, NH $47,010 19% below national
226 West Tennessee nonmetropolitan area $46,840 19% below national
227 Montgomery, AL $46,810 19% below national
228 Elkhart-Goshen, IN $46,740 19% below national
229 Southern Ohio nonmetropolitan area $46,730 19% below national
230 Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA $46,720 19% below national
231 Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT $46,480 20% below national
232 Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA $46,200 20% below national
233 Northwestern Pennsylvania nonmetropolitan area $46,190 20% below national
234 Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR $46,040 20% below national
235 Fresno, CA $45,990 20% below national
236 South Central Tennessee nonmetropolitan area $45,740 21% below national
237 Southeast Minnesota nonmetropolitan area $45,610 21% below national
238 Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL $45,590 21% below national
239 East Tennessee nonmetropolitan area $45,200 22% below national
240 Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL $45,160 22% below national
241 Evansville, IN $45,150 22% below national
242 Greenville, NC $45,130 22% below national
243 Columbus, IN $45,040 22% below national
244 Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL $45,030 22% below national
245 Port St. Lucie, FL $44,010 24% below national
246 Casper, WY $43,380 25% below national
247 Gulfport-Biloxi, MS $43,370 25% below national
248 Maryland nonmetropolitan area $43,350 25% below national
249 Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR $39,930 31% below national
250 Southwestern Pennsylvania nonmetropolitan area $38,160 34% below national
251 Savannah, GA $36,980 36% below national
252 Auburn-Opelika, AL $36,110 38% below national
253 College Station-Bryan, TX $35,960 38% below national
254 San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR $35,690 38% below national
255 Aguadilla, PR $32,920 43% below national
256 Salisbury, MD $31,200 46% below national
257 Mayaguez, PR $29,800 48% below national
258 Ponce, PR $27,920 52% below national

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Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2024. Data reflects cross-industry estimates for all ownership types.