High paying security and protective service jobs in College Station-Bryan, TX

Every security and protective service occupation below is ranked by its median annual wage in College Station-Bryan, 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 College Station-Bryan, TX run 9.0% below the national average (2024), so a College Station-Bryan, TX salary is worth about 1.10× 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

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OccupationMedian, College Station-Bryan, TX · Employed

1First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives$99,390
High school diploma or equivalent
$76,460 – $124,55060
2Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers$76,570
High school diploma or equivalent
$58,110 – $96,650490
3Detectives and Criminal Investigators$76,320
High school diploma or equivalent
$51,710 – $92,92040
4First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers$73,010
Postsecondary nondegree award
$60,940 – $95,23050
5First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers$60,490
High school diploma or equivalent
$59,890 – $79,44040
6Correctional Officers and Jailers$52,670
High school diploma or equivalent
$48,740 – $78,520420
7Parking Enforcement Workers$42,100
High school diploma or equivalent
$37,230 – $47,60050
8Crossing Guards and Flaggers$37,030
No formal educational credential
$25,950 – $37,10040
9Security Guards$34,030
High school diploma or equivalent
$25,250 – $70,380490
10Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers$25,690
No formal educational credential
$24,760 – $28,55090

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

#	Occupation	MedianCollege Station-Bryan, TX	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	First-Line Supervisors of Police and DetectivesHigh school diploma or equivalent	$99,390	$76,460 – $124,550	60
2	Police and Sheriff's Patrol OfficersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$76,570	$58,110 – $96,650	490
3	Detectives and Criminal InvestigatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$76,320	$51,710 – $92,920	40
4	First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention WorkersPostsecondary nondegree award	$73,010	$60,940 – $95,230	50
5	First-Line Supervisors of Correctional OfficersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$60,490	$59,890 – $79,440	40
6	Correctional Officers and JailersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$52,670	$48,740 – $78,520	420
7	Parking Enforcement WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$42,100	$37,230 – $47,600	50
8	Crossing Guards and FlaggersNo formal educational credential	$37,030	$25,950 – $37,100	40
9	Security GuardsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$34,030	$25,250 – $70,380	490
10	Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service WorkersNo formal educational credential	$25,690	$24,760 – $28,550	90

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in College Station-Bryan, 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.

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