BACKGROUND AND AIM: Noise exposure is ubiquitous in the US and has been associated with various health outcomes. Chronic occupational noise exposure of an 8-hour time weighted average (TWA) ≥85 A-weighted decibels (dBA) leads to permanent noise-induced hearing loss, which has major social impacts and may cost $100 billion annually in lost wages alone. It is estimated that tens of millions of workers are exposed to hazardous levels of occupational noise. Understanding potential occupational and environmental injustices in the distribution of occupational noise across communities and worker income groups is important to examine whether those exposed to hazardous levels of occupational noise are also disproportionately burdened populations. METHODS: Publicly available noise measurements from the US noise job exposure matrix (JEM) and wage estimates from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) were utilized in mixed-effects logistic regression to analyze (1) national-level job-title noise exposure and the odds of earning $39,810 (median national salary), and (2) metropolitan/nonmetropolitan- (M/NM) level population-weighted occupational noise estimates and the odds of a M/NM area earning $36,020 (median M/NM-level salary). RESULTS:A one-dBA increase in the average noise exposure experienced at work is significantly associated with 1.19 (95% CI: 1.03, 1.38) times higher odds of earning $39,810, and 1.21 (95% CI: 1.03, 1.42) higher odds when controlling for total employment count. A one-dBA increase in a M/NM area’s population-weighted occupational noise estimate is significantly associated with 2.46 (95% CI: 1.50, 4.03) higher odds of a M/NM area earning $36,020, and 1.75 (95% CI: 1.06, 2.89) times higher odds when controlling for rural/urban area. CONCLUSIONS:Higher occupational noise exposure is unequally distributed among lower wage-earning jobs and communities. KEYWORDS: Noise, occupational exposures, socio-economic factors, environmental disparities