Restoration Salaries
BLS OEWS May 2025 · national and state pay for abatement, restoration management and rebuild roles
No restoration job title has a BLS occupation of its own, so every figure on these pages belongs to a BLS group and is labelled with it.
Asbestos and lead abatement workers are counted in hazardous materials removal workers, a broader group that also covers hazmat cleanup and decontamination crews.
Abatement supervisors are benchmarked against first-line supervisors of construction trades.
Those pages show the broader group's percentile table and outlook, labelled.
Crew leads, project managers, estimators, reconstruction technicians and carpet cleaning technicians use the closest available occupation, from construction managers to carpenters.
Their pages show that occupation's median as a labelled benchmark, without a percentile table, and the carpet cleaning page says the match is weak.
BLS has no occupation for restoration, water mitigation, fire, biohazard, contents or duct cleaning technicians, so this site shows no BLS benchmark for them.
Mold remediation technicians, production managers and mold inspectors are covered in editorial pay guides instead, because their closest BLS codes would mislead.
Every figure is payroll pay from the BLS wage survey.
Owners, the self-employed and 1099 storm subcontractors are not in it, and no page here quotes union scale, prevailing wage rates, per diem, storm deployment pay, commissions or owner income.
Salary by state
Asbestos Abatement Worker salary by state: median $49,450 for hazardous materials removal workers, pay in 51 of the 50 states + DC (Broader BLS occupation: SOC 47-4041 Hazardous Materials Removal Workers); also the state figures for lead abatement workers →Abatement Supervisor salary by state: median $79,920 for first-line supervisors of construction trades and extraction workers, pay in 51 of the 50 states + DC (Broader BLS occupation: SOC 47-1011 First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers); also the state figures for restoration crew leads →Restoration Project Manager salary by state: median $114,990 for construction managers, pay in 51 of the 50 states + DC (Closest available occupation: SOC 11-9021 Construction Managers) →Restoration Estimator salary by state: median $78,740 for cost estimators, pay in 51 of the 50 states + DC (Closest available occupation: SOC 13-1051 Cost Estimators) →Reconstruction Technician salary by state: median $60,580 for carpenters, pay in 51 of the 50 states + DC (Closest available occupation: SOC 47-2031 Carpenters) →Carpet Cleaning Technician salary by state: median $44,040 for building cleaning workers not listed separately, pay in 29 of the 50 states + DC (Closest available occupation (weak match): SOC 37-2019 Building Cleaning Workers, All Other) →Restoration salaries by role
| Role | Median shown | What the number is |
|---|---|---|
| Restoration Project Manager | $114,990 | Closest available occupation (SOC 11-9021) |
| Asbestos Abatement Worker | $49,450 | Broader BLS occupation (SOC 47-4041) |
| Lead Abatement Worker | $49,450 | Broader BLS occupation (SOC 47-4041) |
| Restoration Crew Lead | $79,920 | Closest available occupation (SOC 47-1011) |
| Reconstruction Technician | $60,580 | Closest available occupation (SOC 47-2031) |
| Carpet Cleaning Technician | $44,040 | Closest available occupation (weak match) (SOC 37-2019) |
| Restoration Estimator | $78,740 | Closest available occupation (SOC 13-1051) |
| Abatement Supervisor | $79,920 | Broader BLS occupation (SOC 47-1011) |
Medians are annual, BLS OEWS May 2025, for wage-and-salary workers only (no self-employed, overtime or most bonuses), across all industries. Every median shown is a broader or related occupation's pay, not the job title's.