High paying security and protective service jobs in Flint, MI

Every security and protective service occupation below is ranked by its median annual wage in Flint, MI. 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 Flint, MI run 7.0% below the national average (2024), so a Flint, MI salary is worth about 1.07× 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, Flint, MI · Employed

1Detectives and Criminal Investigators$96,740
High school diploma or equivalent
$57,430 – $169,50090
2First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives$79,970
High school diploma or equivalent
$74,940 – $109,720120
3Transportation Security Screeners$74,130
High school diploma or equivalent
$69,640 – $87,61050
4Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers$64,320
High school diploma or equivalent
$47,200 – $80,140670
5First-Line Supervisors of Security Workers$46,130
High school diploma or equivalent
$37,410 – $64,920160
6Firefighters$39,150
Postsecondary nondegree award
$34,200 – $59,180180
7Security Guards$34,930
High school diploma or equivalent
$28,880 – $47,4002,060
8Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers$28,780
No formal educational credential
$25,960 – $32,54050
9Crossing Guards and Flaggers$27,320
No formal educational credential
$25,960 – $36,25040

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

#	Occupation	MedianFlint, MI	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	Detectives and Criminal InvestigatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$96,740	$57,430 – $169,500	90
2	First-Line Supervisors of Police and DetectivesHigh school diploma or equivalent	$79,970	$74,940 – $109,720	120
3	Transportation Security ScreenersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$74,130	$69,640 – $87,610	50
4	Police and Sheriff's Patrol OfficersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$64,320	$47,200 – $80,140	670
5	First-Line Supervisors of Security WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$46,130	$37,410 – $64,920	160
6	FirefightersPostsecondary nondegree award	$39,150	$34,200 – $59,180	180
7	Security GuardsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$34,930	$28,880 – $47,400	2,060
8	Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service WorkersNo formal educational credential	$28,780	$25,960 – $32,540	50
9	Crossing Guards and FlaggersNo formal educational credential	$27,320	$25,960 – $36,250	40

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Flint, MI. 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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