High paying security and protective service jobs in Lawton, OK with no degree

The best paid security and protective service occupations in Lawton, OK 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 Lawton, OK run 14.1% below the national average (2024), so a Lawton, OK salary is worth about 1.16× 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, Lawton, OK · Employed

1Detectives and Criminal Investigators$78,920
High school diploma or equivalent
$49,940 – $131,73030
2First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives$76,960
High school diploma or equivalent
$58,780 – $97,770170
3First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers$56,920
Postsecondary nondegree award
$50,080 – $101,61080
4Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers$54,870
High school diploma or equivalent
$35,590 – $81,310280
5First-Line Supervisors of Security Workers$52,020
High school diploma or equivalent
$37,400 – $72,99060
6Correctional Officers and Jailers$38,970
High school diploma or equivalent
$35,830 – $46,92090
7Firefighters$36,500
Postsecondary nondegree award
$31,640 – $64,940160
8Security Guards$33,280
High school diploma or equivalent
$23,540 – $48,340410
9Gambling Surveillance Officers and Gambling Investigators$32,080
High school diploma or equivalent
$29,400 – $47,400110

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

#	Occupation	MedianLawton, OK	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	Detectives and Criminal InvestigatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$78,920	$49,940 – $131,730	30
2	First-Line Supervisors of Police and DetectivesHigh school diploma or equivalent	$76,960	$58,780 – $97,770	170
3	First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention WorkersPostsecondary nondegree award	$56,920	$50,080 – $101,610	80
4	Police and Sheriff's Patrol OfficersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$54,870	$35,590 – $81,310	280
5	First-Line Supervisors of Security WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$52,020	$37,400 – $72,990	60
6	Correctional Officers and JailersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$38,970	$35,830 – $46,920	90
7	FirefightersPostsecondary nondegree award	$36,500	$31,640 – $64,940	160
8	Security GuardsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$33,280	$23,540 – $48,340	410
9	Gambling Surveillance Officers and Gambling InvestigatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$32,080	$29,400 – $47,400	110

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