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Categories that pay more

• Termites and wood destroying organisms

  Inspections for home sales, plus big treatment jobs. The best paid residential work.

• Fumigation

  Tenting buildings and treating shipping containers. It needs its own certification and it is the most dangerous work in the field.

• Mosquito and vector control

  Often a county or public health department job, with a pension attached.

• Food plants and commercial accounts

  Warehouses, restaurants and factories on audited contracts. Steadier and better paid than houses.

• Wildlife removal

  Bats, raccoons and birds. A separate set of state permits in most places.