Safety and health professionals (full-timers) and practitioners (part-timers) are in stable, generally positive positions entering the new year, according to reader research conducted by ISHN magazine in October, 2017.
Let’s start by using income as a leading indicator of the state of the EHS nation. Income levels for safety and health pros are healthy. The median current annual gross salary of those surveyed is $88,250. (Most survey respondents are full-time safety and health professionals with more than 20 years’ experience.) And 74 percent of respondents indicated that their 2017 annual gross salary was slightly or much higher than the previous year. Keep in mind the U.S. median household income in 2016 was $59,039, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. That’s almost $30,000 less than the average income of safety and health pros.