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

The median wage for first-line supervisors of firefighting and prevention workers in Arizona is $96,470 a year, or $46.38 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 Arizona is $90,670 a year. The median is $96,470.

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 $46.38. At a full-time year that lines up with about $96,470 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 Arizona, the lowest-paid 10% of first-line supervisors of firefighting and prevention workers earn under $61,540 a year and a quarter earn under $73,320 ($29.59 and $35.25 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 Arizona spans from $61,540 for the bottom 10% to $119,620 for top earners.

The middle 50% earn between $73,320 and $103,400 a year, with the overall median at $96,470.

On the median wage of $96,470, a single filer taking the 2026 standard deduction keeps an estimated $74,679 a year, or roughly $6,223 a month.

That is after federal, state and FICA tax, an effective rate of 22.6%.

Arizona takes $2,018 of it in state income tax.

On the median annual salary of $96,470, estimated take-home pay is roughly $6,223 a month after federal, state, and FICA taxes.

For workers paid on a standard biweekly schedule (26 pay periods per year), each paycheck is approximately $2,872 net.

Yes. The median in Arizona is 3.1% above the national median of $93,530.

Nominal pay is only half the comparison: prices in Arizona sit at 100.7 against a national 100, so the gap in what the money buys is different from the gap in the salary.

It is 1.21 times the median household income of $79,964. A household often has more than one earner, so a single salary at this level goes further than the ratio alone suggests.

Prices in Arizona run at 100.7 against a national average of 100, with rents at 106.8, so $96,470 here buys about what $95,821 buys at national average prices.

The top tenth earn $119,620 a year or more. The 10th-percentile wage is $61,540.

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

The survey counted 2,670 of these jobs in Arizona for May 2025.

That makes the occupation 29% more concentrated here than in the country as a whole. It counts wage and salary jobs, so the self-employed are outside it.