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What applicators make
Typical
$46,340
First year technician
$35,570
Senior or commercial accounts
$61,420
The national median is $46,340 a year, and the bottom tenth start near $35,570. The federal survey title is Pesticide Handlers, Sprayers, and Applicators, Vegetation, which is broader than this job: it also counts people spraying crops, lawns and roadsides, not only buildings.