High paying security and protective service jobs in Las Cruces, NM

Every security and protective service occupation below is ranked by its median annual wage in Las Cruces, NM. 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 Las Cruces, NM run 9.8% below the national average (2024), so a Las Cruces, NM 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

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OccupationMedian, Las Cruces, NM · Employed

1Detectives and Criminal Investigators$106,330
High school diploma or equivalent
$63,130 – $112,260560
2First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives$94,730
High school diploma or equivalent
$73,320 – $147,700120
3First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers$73,320
Postsecondary nondegree award
$54,340 – $109,46050
4First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers$72,880
High school diploma or equivalent
$57,620 – $86,240100
5Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers$60,720
High school diploma or equivalent
$48,060 – $91,850430
6First-Line Supervisors of Security Workers$59,010
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,540 – $72,13040
7Correctional Officers and Jailers$52,370
High school diploma or equivalent
$44,680 – $61,030380
8Protective Service Workers, All Other$47,790
High school diploma or equivalent
$37,960 – $93,78040
9Firefighters$42,820
Postsecondary nondegree award
$30,980 – $64,240280
10Security Guards$37,010
High school diploma or equivalent
$26,610 – $61,240650

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

#	Occupation	MedianLas Cruces, NM	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	Detectives and Criminal InvestigatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$106,330	$63,130 – $112,260	560
2	First-Line Supervisors of Police and DetectivesHigh school diploma or equivalent	$94,730	$73,320 – $147,700	120
3	First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention WorkersPostsecondary nondegree award	$73,320	$54,340 – $109,460	50
4	First-Line Supervisors of Correctional OfficersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$72,880	$57,620 – $86,240	100
5	Police and Sheriff's Patrol OfficersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$60,720	$48,060 – $91,850	430
6	First-Line Supervisors of Security WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$59,010	$31,540 – $72,130	40
7	Correctional Officers and JailersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$52,370	$44,680 – $61,030	380
8	Protective Service Workers, All OtherHigh school diploma or equivalent	$47,790	$37,960 – $93,780	40
9	FirefightersPostsecondary nondegree award	$42,820	$30,980 – $64,240	280
10	Security GuardsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$37,010	$26,610 – $61,240	650

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Las Cruces, NM. 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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