2026 Fire Protection Salary Guide
Compensation benchmarks for all 10 fire protection positions across 9 U.S. Census Divisions. Built from BLS Occupational Employment Statistics data plus our own placement records.
What's inside
- Wage tables for the most-recruited fire protection roles across all nine U.S. Census Divisions, at the 25th, 50th and 90th percentiles
- The BLS occupation code behind every row, so you can check any figure against the source yourself
- A section on where BLS codes do not map cleanly onto commercial fire protection work, and what we did about it
- Full sources: BLS OEWS May 2024, the NAICS industry code, job-board cross-validation, and our own placement data
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