September 05, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic brought home just how essential safety professionals are to their companies, but how well does that translate into how valuable their companies consider their safety leaders? We expanded our annual survey to create what we’re now calling the National Safety & Salary Survey in an effort to identify how much a typical safety leader gets paid, where the highest-paid leaders live, and what types of companies tend to pay the most.
So first of all, what exactly is a “typical safety leader,” anyways? Based on the most frequent responses to our various demographic questions from about 900 EHS Today readers, the average EHS manager is a white male in his 50s, living in the Midwest with more than 20 years of experience, works for a manufacturing company and earns $93,243 (with no bonus last year).
But since no two safety leaders are alike, we took a deeper dive into the survey results to learn, for instance, that while the Midwest has the most safety professionals,