High paying security and protective service jobs in Omaha, NE-IA with no degree

The best paid security and protective service occupations in Omaha, NE-IA 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 Omaha, NE-IA run 8.1% below the national average (2024), so a Omaha, NE-IA salary is worth about 1.09× 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, Omaha, NE-IA · Employed

1First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives$106,100
High school diploma or equivalent
$82,180 – $127,240380
2Detectives and Criminal Investigators$105,310
High school diploma or equivalent
$68,900 – $159,640160
3First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers$90,850
High school diploma or equivalent
$67,790 – $105,290160
4Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers$80,280
High school diploma or equivalent
$63,240 – $95,2101,640
5First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers$73,540
Postsecondary nondegree award
$73,540 – $99,490230
6Correctional Officers and Jailers$63,380
High school diploma or equivalent
$50,010 – $78,2701,180
7Transportation Security Screeners$61,710
High school diploma or equivalent
$46,090 – $67,890200
8Firefighters$61,040
Postsecondary nondegree award
$46,660 – $78,730660
9First-Line Supervisors of Security Workers$45,700
High school diploma or equivalent
$39,300 – $74,250270
10Security Guards$42,370
High school diploma or equivalent
$35,740 – $76,1103,170
11School Bus Monitors$33,930
High school diploma or equivalent
$28,870 – $47,400430
12Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers$29,300
No formal educational credential
$28,080 – $34,170550

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

#	Occupation	MedianOmaha, NE-IA	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	First-Line Supervisors of Police and DetectivesHigh school diploma or equivalent	$106,100	$82,180 – $127,240	380
2	Detectives and Criminal InvestigatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$105,310	$68,900 – $159,640	160
3	First-Line Supervisors of Correctional OfficersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$90,850	$67,790 – $105,290	160
4	Police and Sheriff's Patrol OfficersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$80,280	$63,240 – $95,210	1,640
5	First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention WorkersPostsecondary nondegree award	$73,540	$73,540 – $99,490	230
6	Correctional Officers and JailersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$63,380	$50,010 – $78,270	1,180
7	Transportation Security ScreenersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$61,710	$46,090 – $67,890	200
8	FirefightersPostsecondary nondegree award	$61,040	$46,660 – $78,730	660
9	First-Line Supervisors of Security WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$45,700	$39,300 – $74,250	270
10	Security GuardsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$42,370	$35,740 – $76,110	3,170
11	School Bus MonitorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$33,930	$28,870 – $47,400	430
12	Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service WorkersNo formal educational credential	$29,300	$28,080 – $34,170	550

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Omaha, NE-IA. 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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