High paying security and protective service jobs in Boise City, ID with no degree

The best paid security and protective service occupations in Boise City, ID 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 Boise City, ID run 1.6% below the national average (2024), so a Boise City, ID 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, Boise City, ID · Employed

1First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers$103,550
Postsecondary nondegree award
$50,230 – $129,700200
2First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives$97,300
High school diploma or equivalent
$80,160 – $161,910400
3Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers$84,940
High school diploma or equivalent
$58,990 – $102,950950
4Detectives and Criminal Investigators$83,050
High school diploma or equivalent
$55,200 – $156,850260
5Firefighters$76,280
Postsecondary nondegree award
$32,810 – $82,030740
6Transportation Security Screeners$61,110
High school diploma or equivalent
$45,640 – $67,200150
7Correctional Officers and Jailers$54,830
High school diploma or equivalent
$49,610 – $80,5301,270
8First-Line Supervisors of Security Workers$51,610
High school diploma or equivalent
$36,850 – $76,900130
9Crossing Guards and Flaggers$40,060
No formal educational credential
$34,730 – $64,340260
10Security Guards$37,380
High school diploma or equivalent
$32,260 – $47,7602,080
11Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers$29,000
No formal educational credential
$27,760 – $33,270320

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

#	Occupation	MedianBoise City, ID	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention WorkersPostsecondary nondegree award	$103,550	$50,230 – $129,700	200
2	First-Line Supervisors of Police and DetectivesHigh school diploma or equivalent	$97,300	$80,160 – $161,910	400
3	Police and Sheriff's Patrol OfficersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$84,940	$58,990 – $102,950	950
4	Detectives and Criminal InvestigatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$83,050	$55,200 – $156,850	260
5	FirefightersPostsecondary nondegree award	$76,280	$32,810 – $82,030	740
6	Transportation Security ScreenersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$61,110	$45,640 – $67,200	150
7	Correctional Officers and JailersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$54,830	$49,610 – $80,530	1,270
8	First-Line Supervisors of Security WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$51,610	$36,850 – $76,900	130
9	Crossing Guards and FlaggersNo formal educational credential	$40,060	$34,730 – $64,340	260
10	Security GuardsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$37,380	$32,260 – $47,760	2,080
11	Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service WorkersNo formal educational credential	$29,000	$27,760 – $33,270	320

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Boise City, ID. 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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