2026 Commercial Pest Control Salary Guide
National wage benchmarks for the 10 most-recruited commercial pest control roles, sourced from BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics via O*NET OnLine - with every role that lacks a published figure labeled honestly, not filled in with a guess.
What's inside
- The national median wage for pest control workers, BLS/O*NET-sourced
- Why one BLS occupation code covers every specialty in this trade - and what that means for benchmarking
- Which of the 10 roles have a published wage figure, and which honestly don't
- How state pesticide-applicator licensing categories factor into real-world pay
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Download 2026 Commercial Pest Control Salary GuideWhat the public wage data already says about commercial pest control pay.
The guide is built from our own placement records. This is the other half - what the federal government published for Pest Control Workers in May 2025, free, before any of our data is added to it.
The eight metros that pay it best.
| Metro | Median | vs national | Employed | Concentration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reno, NV | $58,910 | +30% | 160 | 0.86× |
| Seattle, WA | $58,380 | +29% | 670 | 0.49× |
| San Francisco, CA | $53,380 | +18% | 1,210 | 0.77× |
| San Jose, CA | $53,050 | +17% | 590 | 0.79× |
| Denver, CO | $50,110 | +11% | 570 | 0.54× |
| New York, NY | $49,940 | +10% | 4,380 | 0.70× |
| Bridgeport, CT | $49,750 | +10% | 180 | 0.68× |
| Spokane, WA | $49,550 | +10% | 200 | 1.21× |
Concentration is the location quotient: 1.00× is the national rate, 1.40× means the metro has 40% more of these workers per job than the country as a whole.
The same job title pays $58,910 in Reno and $30,330 in El Paso - $28,580 a year apart. That is across the 98 of our 100 metros where BLS publishes a median for it; in the other 2 the local sample is too small to publish, which is its own signal about how many of these people are around.
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. Figures are annual, for all employers, not only commercial contractors.
