High paying security and protective service jobs in Texarkana, TX-AR

Every security and protective service occupation below is ranked by its median annual wage in Texarkana, TX-AR. 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 Texarkana, TX-AR run 16.0% below the national average (2024), so a Texarkana, TX-AR salary is worth about 1.19× 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, Texarkana, TX-AR · Employed

1First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives$72,880
High school diploma or equivalent
$42,740 – $85,50060
2First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers$69,530
Postsecondary nondegree award
$63,680 – $80,36070
3Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers$57,180
High school diploma or equivalent
$40,330 – $72,010400
4Detectives and Criminal Investigators$55,950
High school diploma or equivalent
$41,030 – $78,92030
5First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers$53,620
High school diploma or equivalent
$40,190 – $75,360150
6Correctional Officers and Jailers$51,310
High school diploma or equivalent
$34,560 – $64,540660
7Firefighters$49,940
Postsecondary nondegree award
$34,210 – $61,110180
8Security Guards$34,060
High school diploma or equivalent
$24,120 – $56,410150

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

#	Occupation	MedianTexarkana, TX-AR	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	First-Line Supervisors of Police and DetectivesHigh school diploma or equivalent	$72,880	$42,740 – $85,500	60
2	First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention WorkersPostsecondary nondegree award	$69,530	$63,680 – $80,360	70
3	Police and Sheriff's Patrol OfficersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$57,180	$40,330 – $72,010	400
4	Detectives and Criminal InvestigatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$55,950	$41,030 – $78,920	30
5	First-Line Supervisors of Correctional OfficersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$53,620	$40,190 – $75,360	150
6	Correctional Officers and JailersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$51,310	$34,560 – $64,540	660
7	FirefightersPostsecondary nondegree award	$49,940	$34,210 – $61,110	180
8	Security GuardsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$34,060	$24,120 – $56,410	150

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Texarkana, TX-AR. 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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