High paying security and protective service jobs in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ with no experience

The best paid security and protective service occupations in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ that require neither a degree nor prior experience in a related job. 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 New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ run 12.6% above the national average (2024), so a New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ salary is worth about 0.89× 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, New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ · Employed

1Firefighters$106,420
Postsecondary nondegree award
$56,390 – $115,38014,960
2Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers$105,540
High school diploma or equivalent
$56,390 – $131,69054,270
3Correctional Officers and Jailers$93,220
High school diploma or equivalent
$51,410 – $105,95014,730
4Transportation Security Screeners$72,340
High school diploma or equivalent
$42,640 – $79,2104,610
5Protective Service Workers, All Other$57,920
High school diploma or equivalent
$37,180 – $84,0903,880
6Security Guards$43,980
High school diploma or equivalent
$35,360 – $60,720142,760
7Crossing Guards and Flaggers$43,440
No formal educational credential
$36,580 – $58,69013,930
8School Bus Monitors$37,340
High school diploma or equivalent
$33,150 – $43,51016,260
9Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers$36,600
No formal educational credential
$32,240 – $45,5309,610

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

#	Occupation	MedianNew York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	FirefightersPostsecondary nondegree award	$106,420	$56,390 – $115,380	14,960
2	Police and Sheriff's Patrol OfficersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$105,540	$56,390 – $131,690	54,270
3	Correctional Officers and JailersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$93,220	$51,410 – $105,950	14,730
4	Transportation Security ScreenersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$72,340	$42,640 – $79,210	4,610
5	Protective Service Workers, All OtherHigh school diploma or equivalent	$57,920	$37,180 – $84,090	3,880
6	Security GuardsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$43,980	$35,360 – $60,720	142,760
7	Crossing Guards and FlaggersNo formal educational credential	$43,440	$36,580 – $58,690	13,930
8	School Bus MonitorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$37,340	$33,150 – $43,510	16,260
9	Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service WorkersNo formal educational credential	$36,600	$32,240 – $45,530	9,610

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. 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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