High paying security and protective service jobs in Roanoke, VA with no degree

The best paid security and protective service occupations in Roanoke, VA 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 Roanoke, VA run 6.4% below the national average (2024), so a Roanoke, VA 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, Roanoke, VA · Employed

1Detectives and Criminal Investigators$114,050
High school diploma or equivalent
$63,890 – $158,060130
2First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives$96,100
High school diploma or equivalent
$67,180 – $142,180140
3Transportation Security Screeners$63,130
High school diploma or equivalent
$40,330 – $69,24050
4First-Line Supervisors of Security Workers$62,550
High school diploma or equivalent
$44,340 – $92,78060
5Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers$59,900
High school diploma or equivalent
$47,620 – $77,780840
6First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers$58,300
Postsecondary nondegree award
$48,420 – $93,460180
7Correctional Officers and Jailers$50,070
High school diploma or equivalent
$47,990 – $59,350270
8First-Line Supervisors of Protective Service Workers, All Other$49,640
High school diploma or equivalent
$29,810 – $92,20050
9Firefighters$39,310
Postsecondary nondegree award
$26,520 – $59,240540
10Security Guards$36,900
High school diploma or equivalent
$29,310 – $59,4401,300
11Protective Service Workers, All Other$33,640
High school diploma or equivalent
$25,810 – $54,240140
12School Bus Monitors$33,080
High school diploma or equivalent
$29,380 – $39,090140
13Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers$29,580
No formal educational credential
$26,900 – $30,960370

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

#	Occupation	MedianRoanoke, VA	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	Detectives and Criminal InvestigatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$114,050	$63,890 – $158,060	130
2	First-Line Supervisors of Police and DetectivesHigh school diploma or equivalent	$96,100	$67,180 – $142,180	140
3	Transportation Security ScreenersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$63,130	$40,330 – $69,240	50
4	First-Line Supervisors of Security WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$62,550	$44,340 – $92,780	60
5	Police and Sheriff's Patrol OfficersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$59,900	$47,620 – $77,780	840
6	First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention WorkersPostsecondary nondegree award	$58,300	$48,420 – $93,460	180
7	Correctional Officers and JailersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$50,070	$47,990 – $59,350	270
8	First-Line Supervisors of Protective Service Workers, All OtherHigh school diploma or equivalent	$49,640	$29,810 – $92,200	50
9	FirefightersPostsecondary nondegree award	$39,310	$26,520 – $59,240	540
10	Security GuardsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$36,900	$29,310 – $59,440	1,300
11	Protective Service Workers, All OtherHigh school diploma or equivalent	$33,640	$25,810 – $54,240	140
12	School Bus MonitorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$33,080	$29,380 – $39,090	140
13	Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service WorkersNo formal educational credential	$29,580	$26,900 – $30,960	370

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