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What foresters make
Median
$76,400
Bottom tenth
$50,790
Top tenth
$109,700
The national median is $76,400 a year, the bottom tenth earn $50,790 or less and the top tenth $109,700 or more, in the 2025 survey. 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.