Health and Safety Officer salary
What a health and safety officer actually earns, from 145 live job postings blended with the official US OEWS (Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics) wage anchor. Pick a market for its median and range, then read the seniority split, the trend, and the country comparison below. Updated 2026-09-22.
Switch the market above to see health and safety officer pay in the 2 countries our sources cover, each with its own cost of living. The trend, seniority, and state detail below are United States data, where the official record runs deepest.
What the number means
A health and safety officer earns a blended US median near 122,404 dollars, with the typical middle running from 99,195 dollars to 160,000 dollars. The official trend has moved up about 13 percent since 2019. Demand is rated high, and 7% of postings are fully remote. The nearest adjacent move on our skill graph is environmental engineer, at 65 percent coverage; the instrument maps the rest.
Open health and safety officer roles
Live openings, freshest first. Apply at the source.
Senior Radiation Safety Engineer (f/m/d) at FocusedDarmstadt, DE1d agoApply
Safety Manager at HellofreshAurora, IL, United States1d agoUnlock- Health Safety Environment Manager / Deputy Health and Safety Manager at ENKA Investment AGNeuhausen am Rheinfall, Schaffhausen, Switzerland1d agoApply
- QHSE-Manager 80-100%, (m/w) at Gi Group BurgdorfBern, Bern, Switzerland1d agoApply
- Responsable QHSE H/F at Actual SwitzerlandDelémont, Jura, Switzerland1d agoApply
- (Senior) Systems and Safety Engineer (m/f/d) at AgilerobotsseMunich, Bavaria2d agoApply
By country
- United Kingdom$59,586$70,243$78,013
- United States$99,195$122,404$160,000
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Quick answers
How much does a health and safety officer make?
The blended US median is about 122,404 dollars, with a typical range from 99,195 dollars to 160,000 dollars.
Is health and safety officer a good career in 2026?
Demand for the role is rated high in our July 2026 corpus, with 7% of postings fully remote. The pay is shown above by seniority and by country.
What can a health and safety officer move into?
The nearest adjacent role on our skill graph is environmental engineer, at 65 percent skill coverage. Run the instrument for the full set of reachable moves.
Method: bands are the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles of live US postings with stated pay, shrunk toward the official OEWS anchor by sample size (the “blended” figure). Trend is the OEWS annual median for SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code 19-5011. Live corpus 145 observations, 2026-09-22. Definitions in the glossary.