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What foresters make
Typical
$76,400
Starting out
$50,790
Senior or federal
$109,700
The national median is $76,400 a year, and the bottom tenth start near $50,790. The federal wage survey counts every kind of forester as one group, so a state agency forester, a timber company buyer and a city urban forester are all mixed into that one number.