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Environmental Remediation Workers

SOC 47-4041

Clean up contaminated sites using approved remediation methods.

The job
Median pay
$49k
$45k to $62k typical range
Outlook, 2025 to 2035
Growing
+1.5% projected
Openings a year
4k
BLS projection
Typical education
High school
Our model
AI displacement risk
Low
How much of this job AI may do instead of the person
Works with AI
5/100
AI alongside the person rather than instead of them
AI exposure
1st pct
More exposed than 1% of occupations · modeled estimate · 4th pct in Microsoft's data
Future-proof
54/100

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Pay and jobs by state

BLS OEWS May 2025, 51 states. Sorted by jobs; per 1,000 is jobs per thousand workers in the state; vs national compares that rate with the country's. A tilde marks a figure estimated from the parent occupation group where BLS publishes none.

StateJobsPer 1,000vs nationalMedian pay
California7,3400.41.2×$56k
Texas4,4500.30.9×$44k
New York4,0900.41.3×$73k
Washington3,2500.92.8×$60k
Massachusetts2,7700.82.3×$50k
New Jersey2,2500.51.6×$56k
Illinois1,9800.31.0×$61k
Florida1,7800.20.5×$42k
Michigan1,6100.41.1×$46k
Pennsylvania1,5900.30.8×$48k
All 51 states
StateJobsPer 1,000vs nationalMedian pay
Colorado1,4000.51.5×$60k
North Carolina1,2500.30.8×$43k
Oregon1,1300.61.7×$50k
Indiana9900.30.9×$47k
Virginia9300.20.7×$45k
Louisiana8800.51.4×$38k
South Carolina8700.41.1×$49k
Ohio8300.10.5×$47k
Arizona8000.20.7×$51k
Connecticut7500.41.3×$47k
Minnesota7300.20.7×$59k
New Mexico6800.82.4×$53k
Maryland6600.20.7×$49k
Oklahoma6500.41.1×$44k
Idaho6000.72.1×$50k
Wisconsin5900.20.6×$48k
Tennessee5700.20.5×$60k
Utah5300.30.9×$49k
Kansas4800.31.0×$46k
Georgia4600.10.3×$49k
Kentucky4600.20.7×$48k
Arkansas4400.31.0×$37k
Nevada4000.30.8×$48k
Missouri3700.10.4×$59k
Alabama3500.20.5×$39k
Hawaii3400.51.6×$58k
Rhode Island3300.72.0×$47k
Iowa2700.20.5×$50k
Mississippi2500.20.7×$39k
Montana2500.51.5×$55k
Nebraska2100.20.6×$49k
Maine1900.30.9×$47k
South Dakota1900.41.3×$51k
North Dakota1700.41.2×$60k
Delaware1500.30.9×$44k~
Alaska1400.41.3×$60k
New Hampshire1400.20.6×$55k
West Virginia1300.20.6×$46k
Vermont700.20.7×$47k
Washington DC500.10.2×$60k
Wyoming300.10.3×$49k

Top metro areas

  1. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ3,770 jobs · $74k median
  2. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA2,470 jobs · $51k median
  3. Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH1,980 jobs · $50k median
  4. Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA1,620 jobs · $60k median
  5. Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN1,580 jobs · $61k median
  6. Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX1,410 jobs · $44k median
  7. San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA1,410 jobs · $60k median
  8. Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX1,280 jobs · $43k median

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Pay and outlook from BLS (OEWS 2025, Employment Projections 2025-2035). Skills and work activities from O*NET 30.3. AI exposure and future-proof scores are modeled estimates. How these numbers are made.