High paying security and protective service jobs in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX

Every security and protective service occupation below is ranked by its median annual wage in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, 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 Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX run 1.4% below the national average (2024), so a Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX salary is worth about 1.01× 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, Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX · Employed

1First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives$108,740
High school diploma or equivalent
$88,970 – $132,8901,320
2Detectives and Criminal Investigators$86,390
High school diploma or equivalent
$54,630 – $187,3501,870
3First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers$81,710
Postsecondary nondegree award
$67,610 – $98,8001,770
4Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers$74,570
High school diploma or equivalent
$59,110 – $93,80016,250
5Firefighters$59,120
Postsecondary nondegree award
$44,600 – $72,9705,780
6Correctional Officers and Jailers$53,810
High school diploma or equivalent
$47,660 – $58,6208,650
7First-Line Supervisors of Security Workers$46,490
High school diploma or equivalent
$25,390 – $90,6701,710
8Security Guards$35,460
High school diploma or equivalent
$27,670 – $48,14029,250
9Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers$27,540
No formal educational credential
$22,410 – $33,5702,320

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

#	Occupation	MedianHouston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	First-Line Supervisors of Police and DetectivesHigh school diploma or equivalent	$108,740	$88,970 – $132,890	1,320
2	Detectives and Criminal InvestigatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$86,390	$54,630 – $187,350	1,870
3	First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention WorkersPostsecondary nondegree award	$81,710	$67,610 – $98,800	1,770
4	Police and Sheriff's Patrol OfficersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$74,570	$59,110 – $93,800	16,250
5	FirefightersPostsecondary nondegree award	$59,120	$44,600 – $72,970	5,780
6	Correctional Officers and JailersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$53,810	$47,660 – $58,620	8,650
7	First-Line Supervisors of Security WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$46,490	$25,390 – $90,670	1,710
8	Security GuardsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$35,460	$27,670 – $48,140	29,250
9	Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service WorkersNo formal educational credential	$27,540	$22,410 – $33,570	2,320

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, 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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