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What the pay looks like
Median
$115,160
Bottom tenth
$68,420
Top tenth
$171,250
The federal wage survey has no separate line for fire protection engineers, so these are the figures for health and safety engineers as a whole, the group they are counted inside. The national median is $115,160 a year, the bottom tenth earn $68,420 or less and the top tenth $171,250 or more, in the 2025 federal wage survey.