High paying security and protective service jobs in Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN with no degree

The best paid security and protective service occupations in Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN 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 Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN run 6.9% below the national average (2024), so a Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN salary is worth about 1.07× 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, Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN · Employed

1First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives$95,610
High school diploma or equivalent
$74,260 – $127,940480
2Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers$63,220
High school diploma or equivalent
$46,980 – $77,9702,270
3First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers$58,310
Postsecondary nondegree award
$44,110 – $100,270500
4First-Line Supervisors of Security Workers$50,910
High school diploma or equivalent
$38,160 – $90,040310
5Correctional Officers and Jailers$45,330
High school diploma or equivalent
$37,300 – $61,200880
6Firefighters$45,160
Postsecondary nondegree award
$35,700 – $65,7201,640
7Security Guards$36,420
High school diploma or equivalent
$28,810 – $54,3505,000
8Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers$29,870
No formal educational credential
$20,410 – $33,250880

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

#	Occupation	MedianLouisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	First-Line Supervisors of Police and DetectivesHigh school diploma or equivalent	$95,610	$74,260 – $127,940	480
2	Police and Sheriff's Patrol OfficersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$63,220	$46,980 – $77,970	2,270
3	First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention WorkersPostsecondary nondegree award	$58,310	$44,110 – $100,270	500
4	First-Line Supervisors of Security WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$50,910	$38,160 – $90,040	310
5	Correctional Officers and JailersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$45,330	$37,300 – $61,200	880
6	FirefightersPostsecondary nondegree award	$45,160	$35,700 – $65,720	1,640
7	Security GuardsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$36,420	$28,810 – $54,350	5,000
8	Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service WorkersNo formal educational credential	$29,870	$20,410 – $33,250	880

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN. 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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