High paying security and protective service jobs in Champaign-Urbana, IL with no degree

The best paid security and protective service occupations in Champaign-Urbana, IL 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 Champaign-Urbana, IL run 7.3% below the national average (2024), so a Champaign-Urbana, IL 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, Champaign-Urbana, IL · Employed

1First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives$107,880
High school diploma or equivalent
$85,490 – $156,00090
2First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers$94,180
Postsecondary nondegree award
$85,750 – $125,54080
3Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers$78,520
High school diploma or equivalent
$54,400 – $108,190430
4Detectives and Criminal Investigators$73,430
High school diploma or equivalent
$44,010 – $101,45060
5Firefighters$62,190
Postsecondary nondegree award
$35,010 – $90,900340
6Correctional Officers and Jailers$55,840
High school diploma or equivalent
$38,080 – $89,610100
7Bailiffs$54,810
High school diploma or equivalent
$38,810 – $78,92070
8Security Guards$34,250
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,200 – $51,600390
9School Bus Monitors$33,900
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,200 – $38,560100

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

#	Occupation	MedianChampaign-Urbana, IL	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	First-Line Supervisors of Police and DetectivesHigh school diploma or equivalent	$107,880	$85,490 – $156,000	90
2	First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention WorkersPostsecondary nondegree award	$94,180	$85,750 – $125,540	80
3	Police and Sheriff's Patrol OfficersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$78,520	$54,400 – $108,190	430
4	Detectives and Criminal InvestigatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$73,430	$44,010 – $101,450	60
5	FirefightersPostsecondary nondegree award	$62,190	$35,010 – $90,900	340
6	Correctional Officers and JailersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$55,840	$38,080 – $89,610	100
7	BailiffsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$54,810	$38,810 – $78,920	70
8	Security GuardsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$34,250	$31,200 – $51,600	390
9	School Bus MonitorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$33,900	$31,200 – $38,560	100

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Champaign-Urbana, IL. 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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