High paying security and protective service jobs in Waco, TX

Every security and protective service occupation below is ranked by its median annual wage in Waco, 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 Waco, TX run 7.5% below the national average (2024), so a Waco, TX salary is worth about 1.08× 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, Waco, TX · Employed

1First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives$105,570
High school diploma or equivalent
$71,490 – $134,79060
2First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers$76,180
Postsecondary nondegree award
$76,180 – $100,40080
3Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers$75,850
High school diploma or equivalent
$56,150 – $94,870690
4Detectives and Criminal Investigators$70,990
High school diploma or equivalent
$54,760 – $153,670120
5Firefighters$62,650
Postsecondary nondegree award
$46,310 – $69,740210
6First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers$59,890
High school diploma or equivalent
$57,480 – $76,81050
7Correctional Officers and Jailers$47,660
High school diploma or equivalent
$47,360 – $58,030700
8First-Line Supervisors of Security Workers$38,070
High school diploma or equivalent
$21,760 – $69,99050
9Security Guards$35,270
High school diploma or equivalent
$27,090 – $60,520650

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

#	Occupation	MedianWaco, TX	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	First-Line Supervisors of Police and DetectivesHigh school diploma or equivalent	$105,570	$71,490 – $134,790	60
2	First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention WorkersPostsecondary nondegree award	$76,180	$76,180 – $100,400	80
3	Police and Sheriff's Patrol OfficersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$75,850	$56,150 – $94,870	690
4	Detectives and Criminal InvestigatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$70,990	$54,760 – $153,670	120
5	FirefightersPostsecondary nondegree award	$62,650	$46,310 – $69,740	210
6	First-Line Supervisors of Correctional OfficersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$59,890	$57,480 – $76,810	50
7	Correctional Officers and JailersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$47,660	$47,360 – $58,030	700
8	First-Line Supervisors of Security WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$38,070	$21,760 – $69,990	50
9	Security GuardsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$35,270	$27,090 – $60,520	650

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