High paying security and protective service jobs in Wichita, KS with no degree

The best paid security and protective service occupations in Wichita, KS 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 Wichita, KS run 11.1% below the national average (2024), so a Wichita, KS salary is worth about 1.12× 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, Wichita, KS · Employed

1First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives$90,610
High school diploma or equivalent
$59,220 – $114,420440
2Detectives and Criminal Investigators$87,280
High school diploma or equivalent
$57,870 – $131,730270
3First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers$75,150
High school diploma or equivalent
$55,760 – $95,230250
4Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers$60,840
High school diploma or equivalent
$46,610 – $80,3101,150
5First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers$58,250
Postsecondary nondegree award
$50,770 – $95,370390
6First-Line Supervisors of Security Workers$56,720
High school diploma or equivalent
$36,860 – $96,490100
7Correctional Officers and Jailers$56,270
High school diploma or equivalent
$43,250 – $60,380600
8Firefighters$41,900
Postsecondary nondegree award
$37,260 – $49,650790
9Security Guards$34,790
High school diploma or equivalent
$28,540 – $51,8901,650
10School Bus Monitors$27,790
High school diploma or equivalent
$26,860 – $32,390460

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

#	Occupation	MedianWichita, KS	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	First-Line Supervisors of Police and DetectivesHigh school diploma or equivalent	$90,610	$59,220 – $114,420	440
2	Detectives and Criminal InvestigatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$87,280	$57,870 – $131,730	270
3	First-Line Supervisors of Correctional OfficersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$75,150	$55,760 – $95,230	250
4	Police and Sheriff's Patrol OfficersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$60,840	$46,610 – $80,310	1,150
5	First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention WorkersPostsecondary nondegree award	$58,250	$50,770 – $95,370	390
6	First-Line Supervisors of Security WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$56,720	$36,860 – $96,490	100
7	Correctional Officers and JailersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$56,270	$43,250 – $60,380	600
8	FirefightersPostsecondary nondegree award	$41,900	$37,260 – $49,650	790
9	Security GuardsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$34,790	$28,540 – $51,890	1,650
10	School Bus MonitorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$27,790	$26,860 – $32,390	460

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