Compare A Safety Engineer ↔ B Environmental Inspector

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1 move · -$48,070 a year, Texas medians of each whole occupation, all experience levels

Gates on this route

Move 1, to Environmental Inspector: bachelor's degree (O*NET: most in Environmental Inspector hold one).

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Safety Engineer to Environmental Inspector -$48,070 Texas medians of each whole occupation, all experience levels
- O*NET lists Environmental Compliance Inspectors as a related occupation (Primary-Short); skills and knowledge profile similarity r = 0.82.
- Gates: bachelor's degree (O*NET: most in Environmental Inspector hold one).
- Skills to build: Operations Monitoring, Quality Control Analysis, Active Learning

Side by side

All Environmental Compliance Inspectors: Texas median $75,370, $48,070 less a year than all Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors ($123,440), every experience level.

Occupation-wide pay all experience levels, not this level's pay; Texas median, base pay, $0 to $300k

$123,440-$48,070$75,370

Gates on the route: bachelor's degree (O*NET: most in Environmental Inspector hold one).

Outlook 2024 to 2034 whole occupation

A +11.9% Texas, 220 openings a year

B +12.1% Texas, 3,540 openings a year

Physical load our index from O*NET, 1 to 5; A B; largest differences first

2.4 / 5-0.32.1 / 5

Protective gear-0.86Protective gear: A 2.39, B 1.53
High places-0.80High places: A 2.6, B 1.8
Outdoors, all weather+0.58Outdoors, all weather: A 3.22, B 3.8
Hazardous conditions-0.57Hazardous conditions: A 2.67, B 2.1
Hazardous equipment-0.47Hazardous equipment: A 2.87, B 2.4

Degree

A Degree data UNAVAILABLE in O*NET.

B Most people in this job hold a bachelor's degree or higher (O*NET: 75%).

License

A Texas PE license (TBPELS) is required for the practice of engineering as defined in Occ. Code 1001.003; whether this job needs it depends on the work.

B No license for this job title at the 8 Texas and federal licensing agencies read on 2026-10-03 (TDLR, TSBPE, TCEQ, TCFP, TEA, TBPELS, NRC and EPA).

Experience

A Experience data UNAVAILABLE in O*NET.

B Most common related work experience: none (O*NET: 25%).

Skills O*NET importance, 1 to 5

You likely have: 6

Critical Thinking
Reading Comprehension
Active Listening
Writing
Complex Problem Solving
Judgment and Decision Making

To build: 4

Operations Monitoring +0.76
Quality Control Analysis +0.63
Active Learning +0.50
Science +0.50

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Save Safety Engineer to Environmental Inspector as your goal. Each step then shows the hours you have logged toward it, your exam practice and your license, with the one thing to do next and the 4 skills to build as a checklist. Free with an account.