High paying security and protective service jobs in Springfield, IL with no degree

The best paid security and protective service occupations in Springfield, IL 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 Springfield, IL run 7.3% below the national average (2024), so a Springfield, IL salary is worth about 1.08× 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, Springfield, IL · Employed

1First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers$115,820
Postsecondary nondegree award
$70,140 – $149,93040
2First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives$110,080
High school diploma or equivalent
$80,280 – $160,450170
3Detectives and Criminal Investigators$88,790
High school diploma or equivalent
$62,910 – $136,610120
4Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers$82,740
High school diploma or equivalent
$49,550 – $98,380420
5Firefighters$65,330
Postsecondary nondegree award
$35,830 – $94,850240
6Correctional Officers and Jailers$60,590
High school diploma or equivalent
$47,400 – $98,120140
7Security Guards$42,240
High school diploma or equivalent
$33,460 – $57,350680
8Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers$31,250
No formal educational credential
$31,200 – $34,56090
9School Bus Monitors$31,200
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,200 – $34,920100

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

#	Occupation	MedianSpringfield, IL	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention WorkersPostsecondary nondegree award	$115,820	$70,140 – $149,930	40
2	First-Line Supervisors of Police and DetectivesHigh school diploma or equivalent	$110,080	$80,280 – $160,450	170
3	Detectives and Criminal InvestigatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$88,790	$62,910 – $136,610	120
4	Police and Sheriff's Patrol OfficersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$82,740	$49,550 – $98,380	420
5	FirefightersPostsecondary nondegree award	$65,330	$35,830 – $94,850	240
6	Correctional Officers and JailersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$60,590	$47,400 – $98,120	140
7	Security GuardsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$42,240	$33,460 – $57,350	680
8	Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service WorkersNo formal educational credential	$31,250	$31,200 – $34,560	90
9	School Bus MonitorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$31,200	$31,200 – $34,920	100

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