High paying security and protective service jobs in Mobile, AL with no degree
The best paid security and protective service occupations in Mobile, AL 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 Mobile, AL run 11.9% below the national average (2024), so a Mobile, AL salary is worth about 1.14× 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
High school diploma or equivalent
$42,980 – $162,450100High school diploma or equivalent
$62,220 – $103,530300Postsecondary nondegree award
$44,350 – $98,42080High school diploma or equivalent
$44,180 – $81,130300High school diploma or equivalent
$36,150 – $91,27060High school diploma or equivalent
$30,840 – $55,31060High school diploma or equivalent
$36,570 – $61,070890Postsecondary nondegree award
$34,980 – $75,820710High school diploma or equivalent
$23,660 – $43,2801,170
Bars run from the 10th to the 90th percentile; the middle half is shaded darker, and the tick is the median.
| # | Occupation | MedianMobile, AL | 10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker | Employed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Detectives and Criminal InvestigatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent | $98,310 | $42,980 – $162,450 | 100 |
| 2 | First-Line Supervisors of Police and DetectivesHigh school diploma or equivalent | $75,970 | $62,220 – $103,530 | 300 |
| 3 | First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention WorkersPostsecondary nondegree award | $68,350 | $44,350 – $98,420 | 80 |
| 4 | Correctional Officers and JailersHigh school diploma or equivalent | $64,690 | $44,180 – $81,130 | 300 |
| 5 | First-Line Supervisors of Security WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent | $49,550 | $36,150 – $91,270 | 60 |
| 6 | Private Detectives and InvestigatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent | $47,770 | $30,840 – $55,310 | 60 |
| 7 | Police and Sheriff's Patrol OfficersHigh school diploma or equivalent | $47,000 | $36,570 – $61,070 | 890 |
| 8 | FirefightersPostsecondary nondegree award | $46,770 | $34,980 – $75,820 | 710 |
| 9 | Security GuardsHigh school diploma or equivalent | $33,630 | $23,660 – $43,280 | 1,170 |
Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Mobile, AL. 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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