High paying security and protective service jobs in Yakima, WA

Every security and protective service occupation below is ranked by its median annual wage in Yakima, WA. 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 Yakima, WA run 4.5% below the national average (2024), so a Yakima, WA salary is worth about 1.05× 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, Yakima, WA · Employed

1First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives$128,770
High school diploma or equivalent
$99,640 – $158,300110
2Detectives and Criminal Investigators$108,890
High school diploma or equivalent
$64,400 – $158,06030
3Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers$98,340
High school diploma or equivalent
$73,030 – $103,160370
4First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers$95,590
Postsecondary nondegree award
$41,830 – $138,490140
5First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers$84,640
High school diploma or equivalent
$75,570 – $101,92050
6Correctional Officers and Jailers$76,070
High school diploma or equivalent
$58,010 – $77,110220
7Firefighters$62,120
Postsecondary nondegree award
$36,580 – $95,130410
8Protective Service Workers, All Other$41,850
High school diploma or equivalent
$37,250 – $58,66050
9Security Guards$37,440
High school diploma or equivalent
$36,120 – $61,350400
10Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers$34,650
No formal educational credential
$34,650 – $39,020120

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

#	Occupation	MedianYakima, WA	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	First-Line Supervisors of Police and DetectivesHigh school diploma or equivalent	$128,770	$99,640 – $158,300	110
2	Detectives and Criminal InvestigatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$108,890	$64,400 – $158,060	30
3	Police and Sheriff's Patrol OfficersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$98,340	$73,030 – $103,160	370
4	First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention WorkersPostsecondary nondegree award	$95,590	$41,830 – $138,490	140
5	First-Line Supervisors of Correctional OfficersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$84,640	$75,570 – $101,920	50
6	Correctional Officers and JailersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$76,070	$58,010 – $77,110	220
7	FirefightersPostsecondary nondegree award	$62,120	$36,580 – $95,130	410
8	Protective Service Workers, All OtherHigh school diploma or equivalent	$41,850	$37,250 – $58,660	50
9	Security GuardsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$37,440	$36,120 – $61,350	400
10	Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service WorkersNo formal educational credential	$34,650	$34,650 – $39,020	120

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