How much do first-line supervisors of firefighting and prevention workers make?

The median wage for first-line supervisors of firefighting and prevention workers in the United States is $93,530 a year, or $44.96 an hour.

Half earn more than that and half earn less. The figure comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics occupational wage survey for May 2025.

BLS’s mean (average) wage for first-line supervisors of firefighting and prevention workers in the United States is $96,930 a year. The median is $93,530.

The mean sits higher when a smaller group of high earners pulls the average up. For a typical paycheck, the median is the better middle.

The median hourly wage is $44.96. At a full-time year that lines up with about $93,530 a year.

BLS May 2025; hourly and annual figures come from the same survey.

BLS does not publish starting pay. The closest figure it does publish is the low end of the range: in the United States, the lowest-paid 10% of first-line supervisors of firefighting and prevention workers earn under $53,430 a year and a quarter earn under $72,140 ($25.69 and $34.68 an hour).

New hires often start somewhere in that band, but the May 2025 survey does not record experience, so read it as a floor to compare an offer against rather than a typical first salary.

The overall salary range for first-line supervisors of firefighting and prevention workers in the United States spans from $53,430 for the bottom 10% to $140,010 for top earners.

The middle 50% earn between $72,140 and $119,500 a year, with the overall median at $93,530.

The top tenth earn $140,010 a year or more. The 10th-percentile wage is $53,430.

Experience, specialty, employer and the part of the United States someone works in all move a wage inside that range; the survey reports the spread, not the reason for it.

The survey counted 99,140 of these jobs in the United States for May 2025.

It counts wage and salary jobs, so the self-employed are outside it.