High paying security and protective service jobs in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX with no degree

The best paid security and protective service occupations in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX that require no bachelor's degree — a high school diploma, a certificate, or an associate's degree is the typical entry. This is the narrowest cut on the site, so it is also the shortest list: where a field has only two or three such occupations, there is no page at all rather than a page pretending otherwise.

Cost of living: prices in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX run 1.9% below the national average (2024), so a Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX salary is worth about 1.02× 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, Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX · Employed

1First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives$129,690
High school diploma or equivalent
$98,090 – $149,880470
2First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers$96,240
Postsecondary nondegree award
$63,320 – $128,800780
3Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers$82,290
High school diploma or equivalent
$51,990 – $103,1804,540
4Detectives and Criminal Investigators$78,970
High school diploma or equivalent
$48,840 – $114,7901,710
5Transportation Security Screeners$62,820
High school diploma or equivalent
$51,600 – $69,100460
6Correctional Officers and Jailers$59,470
High school diploma or equivalent
$50,140 – $76,3201,770
7Firefighters$58,830
Postsecondary nondegree award
$41,640 – $75,3502,300
8First-Line Supervisors of Security Workers$50,850
High school diploma or equivalent
$26,630 – $96,100550
9Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers$43,260
No formal educational credential
$28,410 – $43,2601,800
10Security Guards$37,920
High school diploma or equivalent
$28,810 – $54,3008,410

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

#	Occupation	MedianAustin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	First-Line Supervisors of Police and DetectivesHigh school diploma or equivalent	$129,690	$98,090 – $149,880	470
2	First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention WorkersPostsecondary nondegree award	$96,240	$63,320 – $128,800	780
3	Police and Sheriff's Patrol OfficersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$82,290	$51,990 – $103,180	4,540
4	Detectives and Criminal InvestigatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$78,970	$48,840 – $114,790	1,710
5	Transportation Security ScreenersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$62,820	$51,600 – $69,100	460
6	Correctional Officers and JailersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$59,470	$50,140 – $76,320	1,770
7	FirefightersPostsecondary nondegree award	$58,830	$41,640 – $75,350	2,300
8	First-Line Supervisors of Security WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$50,850	$26,630 – $96,100	550
9	Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service WorkersNo formal educational credential	$43,260	$28,410 – $43,260	1,800
10	Security GuardsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$37,920	$28,810 – $54,300	8,410

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, 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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