High paying security and protective service jobs in Twin Falls, ID with no degree

The best paid security and protective service occupations in Twin Falls, ID 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 Twin Falls, ID run 7.9% below the national average (2024), so a Twin Falls, ID 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, Twin Falls, ID · Employed

1First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives$90,180
High school diploma or equivalent
$60,980 – $109,43040
2Detectives and Criminal Investigators$72,150
High school diploma or equivalent
$50,170 – $91,04030
3Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers$62,150
High school diploma or equivalent
$48,010 – $72,720160
4Correctional Officers and Jailers$55,920
High school diploma or equivalent
$42,270 – $74,520110
5Firefighters$36,940
Postsecondary nondegree award
$25,480 – $57,740110
6Security Guards$32,040
High school diploma or equivalent
$32,030 – $48,450190
7School Bus Monitors$25,250
High school diploma or equivalent
$25,250 – $39,05030

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

#	Occupation	MedianTwin Falls, ID	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	First-Line Supervisors of Police and DetectivesHigh school diploma or equivalent	$90,180	$60,980 – $109,430	40
2	Detectives and Criminal InvestigatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$72,150	$50,170 – $91,040	30
3	Police and Sheriff's Patrol OfficersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$62,150	$48,010 – $72,720	160
4	Correctional Officers and JailersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$55,920	$42,270 – $74,520	110
5	FirefightersPostsecondary nondegree award	$36,940	$25,480 – $57,740	110
6	Security GuardsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$32,040	$32,030 – $48,450	190
7	School Bus MonitorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$25,250	$25,250 – $39,050	30

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Twin Falls, ID. 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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