High paying security and protective service jobs in Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX

Every security and protective service occupation below is ranked by its median annual wage in Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX. Read the percentile range, not just the median: the gap between the 10th and 90th inside a single security and protective service job is usually wider than the gap between two different ones, so where you land in a field matters more than which field you pick.

Cost of living: prices in Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX run 10.0% below the national average (2024), so a Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX salary is worth about 1.11× its face value in national terms. That scales every wage here by the same factor — it changes what the numbers mean, not their order.

Local wage estimates are suppressed more often than state ones — BLS withholds any figure too few local employers report — so an occupation missing here simply has no published local estimate.

Wages: BLS OEWS, May 2025 · Cost of living: BEA regional price parities, 2024

Find security jobs in Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX

OccupationMedian, Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX · Employed

1First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives$99,700
High school diploma or equivalent
$76,430 – $118,540100
2First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers$82,740
Postsecondary nondegree award
$43,900 – $96,240120
3Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers$78,450
High school diploma or equivalent
$56,550 – $95,370830
4Detectives and Criminal Investigators$70,760
High school diploma or equivalent
$45,990 – $114,460110
5Firefighters$64,540
Postsecondary nondegree award
$37,640 – $74,740380
6First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers$62,590
High school diploma or equivalent
$59,890 – $99,360140
7Private Detectives and Investigators$57,620
High school diploma or equivalent
$33,820 – $94,59050
8Correctional Officers and Jailers$54,020
High school diploma or equivalent
$48,120 – $79,1901,730
9First-Line Supervisors of Security Workers$49,890
High school diploma or equivalent
$33,870 – $76,30050
10Security Guards$35,010
High school diploma or equivalent
$25,700 – $42,9101,100
11Crossing Guards and Flaggers$31,850
No formal educational credential
$23,330 – $39,91070
12School Bus Monitors$30,070
High school diploma or equivalent
$23,510 – $40,68060

Bars run from the 10th to the 90th percentile; the middle half is shaded darker, and the tick is the median.

#	Occupation	MedianBeaumont-Port Arthur, TX	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	First-Line Supervisors of Police and DetectivesHigh school diploma or equivalent	$99,700	$76,430 – $118,540	100
2	First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention WorkersPostsecondary nondegree award	$82,740	$43,900 – $96,240	120
3	Police and Sheriff's Patrol OfficersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$78,450	$56,550 – $95,370	830
4	Detectives and Criminal InvestigatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$70,760	$45,990 – $114,460	110
5	FirefightersPostsecondary nondegree award	$64,540	$37,640 – $74,740	380
6	First-Line Supervisors of Correctional OfficersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$62,590	$59,890 – $99,360	140
7	Private Detectives and InvestigatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$57,620	$33,820 – $94,590	50
8	Correctional Officers and JailersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$54,020	$48,120 – $79,190	1,730
9	First-Line Supervisors of Security WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$49,890	$33,870 – $76,300	50
10	Security GuardsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$35,010	$25,700 – $42,910	1,100
11	Crossing Guards and FlaggersNo formal educational credential	$31,850	$23,330 – $39,910	70
12	School Bus MonitorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$30,070	$23,510 – $40,680	60

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX. The rarer ones are real jobs — but a 1,190-person occupation at the top of a list answers a different question than the one most readers are asking.

More for Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX

By field in Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX

Without a degree

The same fields, narrowed to what you can enter without one. Fields missing here have too few such occupations in Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX to rank honestly.

High paying security and protective service jobs in Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX

More for Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX

Other metro areas in TX

By field in Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX

Without a degree

High paying security and protective service jobs in each state