High paying security and protective service jobs in Santa Fe, NM with no degree

The best paid security and protective service occupations in Santa Fe, NM 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 Santa Fe, NM run 1.2% below the national average (2024), so a Santa Fe, NM salary is worth about 1.01× 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, Santa Fe, NM · Employed

1First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives$120,030
High school diploma or equivalent
$82,890 – $159,14090
2First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers$98,300
Postsecondary nondegree award
$63,060 – $98,30070
3Detectives and Criminal Investigators$76,230
High school diploma or equivalent
$65,880 – $111,97060
4Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers$74,640
High school diploma or equivalent
$54,080 – $97,090310
5Fire Inspectors and Investigators$68,140
Postsecondary nondegree award
$57,950 – $80,61050
6First-Line Supervisors of Security Workers$52,860
High school diploma or equivalent
$45,020 – $97,06040
7First-Line Supervisors of Protective Service Workers, All Other$46,340
High school diploma or equivalent
$38,130 – $84,70040
8Security Guards$40,980
High school diploma or equivalent
$32,000 – $60,600630
9Firefighters$31,200
Postsecondary nondegree award
$31,200 – $62,390300

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

#	Occupation	MedianSanta Fe, NM	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	First-Line Supervisors of Police and DetectivesHigh school diploma or equivalent	$120,030	$82,890 – $159,140	90
2	First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention WorkersPostsecondary nondegree award	$98,300	$63,060 – $98,300	70
3	Detectives and Criminal InvestigatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$76,230	$65,880 – $111,970	60
4	Police and Sheriff's Patrol OfficersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$74,640	$54,080 – $97,090	310
5	Fire Inspectors and InvestigatorsPostsecondary nondegree award	$68,140	$57,950 – $80,610	50
6	First-Line Supervisors of Security WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$52,860	$45,020 – $97,060	40
7	First-Line Supervisors of Protective Service Workers, All OtherHigh school diploma or equivalent	$46,340	$38,130 – $84,700	40
8	Security GuardsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$40,980	$32,000 – $60,600	630
9	FirefightersPostsecondary nondegree award	$31,200	$31,200 – $62,390	300

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Santa Fe, NM. 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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