High paying security and protective service jobs in Minot, ND

Every security and protective service occupation below is ranked by its median annual wage in Minot, ND. 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 Minot, ND run 13.0% below the national average (2024), so a Minot, ND salary is worth about 1.15× 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, Minot, ND · Employed

1First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives$98,160
High school diploma or equivalent
$80,990 – $116,31030
2Detectives and Criminal Investigators$78,920
High school diploma or equivalent
$59,460 – $144,89040
3Transportation Security Screeners$63,130
High school diploma or equivalent
$47,920 – $70,26030
4Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers$60,210
High school diploma or equivalent
$58,050 – $79,970120
5Firefighters$49,060
Postsecondary nondegree award
$38,900 – $72,72080
6Security Guards$39,430
High school diploma or equivalent
$33,480 – $64,44080

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

#	Occupation	MedianMinot, ND	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	First-Line Supervisors of Police and DetectivesHigh school diploma or equivalent	$98,160	$80,990 – $116,310	30
2	Detectives and Criminal InvestigatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$78,920	$59,460 – $144,890	40
3	Transportation Security ScreenersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$63,130	$47,920 – $70,260	30
4	Police and Sheriff's Patrol OfficersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$60,210	$58,050 – $79,970	120
5	FirefightersPostsecondary nondegree award	$49,060	$38,900 – $72,720	80
6	Security GuardsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$39,430	$33,480 – $64,440	80

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