High paying security and protective service jobs in Tulsa, OK

Every security and protective service occupation below is ranked by its median annual wage in Tulsa, OK. 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 Tulsa, OK run 10.8% below the national average (2024), so a Tulsa, OK salary is worth about 1.12× 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, Tulsa, OK · Employed

1First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives$97,220
High school diploma or equivalent
$48,200 – $122,520430
2Detectives and Criminal Investigators$82,420
High school diploma or equivalent
$50,500 – $149,280230
3First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers$76,740
Postsecondary nondegree award
$57,620 – $96,890390
4Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers$64,190
High school diploma or equivalent
$42,190 – $90,3702,310
5First-Line Supervisors of Security Workers$54,480
High school diploma or equivalent
$37,550 – $79,990370
6Firefighters$47,600
Postsecondary nondegree award
$35,250 – $62,410960
7Correctional Officers and Jailers$46,220
High school diploma or equivalent
$36,020 – $58,390650
8Security Guards$36,640
High school diploma or equivalent
$26,410 – $51,4703,390
9Gambling Surveillance Officers and Gambling Investigators$34,590
High school diploma or equivalent
$30,870 – $46,780270
10School Bus Monitors$28,770
High school diploma or equivalent
$27,110 – $34,560160

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

#	Occupation	MedianTulsa, OK	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	First-Line Supervisors of Police and DetectivesHigh school diploma or equivalent	$97,220	$48,200 – $122,520	430
2	Detectives and Criminal InvestigatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$82,420	$50,500 – $149,280	230
3	First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention WorkersPostsecondary nondegree award	$76,740	$57,620 – $96,890	390
4	Police and Sheriff's Patrol OfficersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$64,190	$42,190 – $90,370	2,310
5	First-Line Supervisors of Security WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$54,480	$37,550 – $79,990	370
6	FirefightersPostsecondary nondegree award	$47,600	$35,250 – $62,410	960
7	Correctional Officers and JailersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$46,220	$36,020 – $58,390	650
8	Security GuardsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$36,640	$26,410 – $51,470	3,390
9	Gambling Surveillance Officers and Gambling InvestigatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$34,590	$30,870 – $46,780	270
10	School Bus MonitorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$28,770	$27,110 – $34,560	160

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