Average Salary

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One of the most popular questions we get from our readers here is how much do Water Resource Specialists make per year and their hourly wage.

Starting Salary

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Entry-level Water Resource Specialists with little to no experience can expect to make anywhere between $65000 to $92430 per year or $31 to $44 per hour.

Just like any other job, the salary of a Water Resource Specialist will increase as they become more experienced.

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Salary Rank

We wanted to make it easy for our readers to compare the salary of a Water Resource Specialist to all the other careers out there. So we created Salary Rank. We compare the salary of all careers then we give them a rank of A, B, C or D depending on where their average salary sits in comparison to other careers.

After comparing how much do Water Resource Specialists make with other careers, they have a salary rank of A.

Salary range

Level	Hourly	Yearly
Highest (Top 10%)	Over $100	Over $200,000
Senior (Top 25%)	$80	$165900
Middle (Mid 50%)	$60	$123860
Junior (Bottom 25%)	$44	$92430
No experience (Bottom 10%)	$31	$65000

Highest paying states

State	Hourly	Annual
NJ	$ 89	$ 184,640
MA	$ 88	$ 183,490
CT	$ 86	$ 179,200
CA	$ 81	$ 168,790
WA	$ 74	$ 153,600
NC	$ 74	$ 153,490
NY	$ 71	$ 148,460
MD	$ 71	$ 148,310
PA	$ 71	$ 147,810
CO	$ 68	$ 141,750

Another simple way to increase your salary as a Water Resource Specialist is to move to a higher paying state. However moving to a higher paying state like NJ doesn’t guarantee that you will make more because the expenses at NJ might be much higher than where you are currently living at right now.

According to BLS, the highest paid Water Resource Specialists are in the states of NJ, MA, CT, CA and WA.

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