High paying security and protective service jobs in Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC with no degree

The best paid security and protective service occupations in Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC 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 Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC run 2.1% below the national average (2024), so a Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC salary is worth about 1.02× 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, Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC · Employed

1First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives$97,200
High school diploma or equivalent
$68,120 – $135,010590
2Detectives and Criminal Investigators$93,790
High school diploma or equivalent
$54,690 – $160,410460
3First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers$87,530
Postsecondary nondegree award
$61,090 – $121,520730
4First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers$80,260
High school diploma or equivalent
$55,060 – $96,420290
5Transportation Security Screeners$62,000
High school diploma or equivalent
$32,720 – $68,200240
6First-Line Supervisors of Security Workers$59,990
High school diploma or equivalent
$39,510 – $88,150360
7Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers$59,690
High school diploma or equivalent
$52,050 – $94,0304,320
8Firefighters$56,940
Postsecondary nondegree award
$38,840 – $76,4602,880
9Correctional Officers and Jailers$49,900
High school diploma or equivalent
$46,320 – $59,6501,520
10Security Guards$37,230
High school diploma or equivalent
$30,830 – $62,7107,470
11School Bus Monitors$35,040
High school diploma or equivalent
$29,990 – $44,740430
12Protective Service Workers, All Other$34,940
High school diploma or equivalent
$26,380 – $58,320430
13Crossing Guards and Flaggers$34,920
No formal educational credential
$30,990 – $45,350260
14Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers$27,890
No formal educational credential
$25,810 – $34,5202,060

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

#	Occupation	MedianVirginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	First-Line Supervisors of Police and DetectivesHigh school diploma or equivalent	$97,200	$68,120 – $135,010	590
2	Detectives and Criminal InvestigatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$93,790	$54,690 – $160,410	460
3	First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention WorkersPostsecondary nondegree award	$87,530	$61,090 – $121,520	730
4	First-Line Supervisors of Correctional OfficersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$80,260	$55,060 – $96,420	290
5	Transportation Security ScreenersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$62,000	$32,720 – $68,200	240
6	First-Line Supervisors of Security WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$59,990	$39,510 – $88,150	360
7	Police and Sheriff's Patrol OfficersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$59,690	$52,050 – $94,030	4,320
8	FirefightersPostsecondary nondegree award	$56,940	$38,840 – $76,460	2,880
9	Correctional Officers and JailersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$49,900	$46,320 – $59,650	1,520
10	Security GuardsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$37,230	$30,830 – $62,710	7,470
11	School Bus MonitorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$35,040	$29,990 – $44,740	430
12	Protective Service Workers, All OtherHigh school diploma or equivalent	$34,940	$26,380 – $58,320	430
13	Crossing Guards and FlaggersNo formal educational credential	$34,920	$30,990 – $45,350	260
14	Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service WorkersNo formal educational credential	$27,890	$25,810 – $34,520	2,060

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC. 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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