First-Line Supervisors of Protective Service Workers, All Other salary

SOC 33-1099 · BLS OEWS May 2025

Median

$76,400

per year, nationally

Middle half

$52,400–$92,890

25th to 75th percentile

Employed

20,690

in the U.S.

Growth 2024–34

+1.6%

2,100 openings/yr

What the range looks like

A single median hides most of what a job pays. The bar below is the full national range: the wash spans the 10th to 90th percentile, the solid bar is the middle half, and the tick is the median.

$41,110$103,420

10th: $41,110
25th: $52,400
Median: $76,400
75th: $92,890
90th: $103,420

Getting in

Typical education to enter: High school diploma or equivalent
Related work experience: Less than 5 years
On-the-job training: None

Entry requirements describe what is typical, not mandatory. Source: BLS Employment Projections, 2024–34.

Where first-line supervisors of protective service workers, all other earn the most

Nominal pay and pay adjusted for local prices rank states differently — a high-wage state with high costs can be worse off in real terms than a middling one. Switch between the two below.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	State	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	District of Columbia	$97,640	109.9	100	1.10×
2	New York	$92,930	107.9	1,840	1.43×
3	California	$92,690	110.7	2,330	0.96×
4	Rhode Island	$89,320	102.3	30	0.47×
5	Alaska	$89,170	102.4	130	3.06×
6	Illinois	$86,260	100.0	470	0.58×
7	Tennessee	$81,330	91.9	240	0.55×
8	Maine	$81,330	97.0	80	0.88×
9	South Carolina	$81,330	93.7	90	0.30×
10	Minnesota	$80,600	98.6	190	0.47×
11	Michigan	$80,430	96.2	440	0.75×
12	Montana	$80,200	94.6	90	1.27×
13	Hawaii	$79,750	110.0	240	2.92×
14	Washington	$79,270	107.0	680	1.43×
15	Alabama	$78,850	88.8	120	0.44×
16	Florida	$78,730	103.4	1,330	1.00×
17	Georgia	$77,540	96.3	550	0.84×
18	Arizona	$77,330	100.7	370	0.85×
19	Oregon	$77,220	103.4	340	1.29×
20	Nebraska	$77,150	90.1	90	0.66×
21	Kansas	$76,920	90.1	90	0.45×
22	South Dakota	$76,400	88.6	40	0.63×
23	Texas	$76,400	97.1	1,450	0.78×
24	Louisiana	$76,400	88.2	440	1.69×
25	North Dakota	$76,400	89.0	80	1.39×
26	Massachusetts	$76,280	105.8	370	0.77×
27	Nevada	$76,160	100.0	500	2.44×
28	Missouri	$75,800	90.8	160	0.40×
29	Ohio	$74,130	92.8	260	0.35×
30	Kentucky	$73,920	90.2	190	0.71×
31	Utah	$73,920	98.9	190	0.82×
32	Wisconsin	$73,500	94.1	250	0.64×
33	West Virginia	$73,280	89.5	60	0.67×
34	Indiana	$67,980	93.3	210	0.49×
35	North Carolina	$66,400	94.3	470	0.71×
36	Arkansas	$66,010	86.9	300	1.76×
37	Colorado	$65,490	103.1	890	2.34×
38	Wyoming	$65,270	92.7	120	3.26×
39	New Hampshire	$65,220	104.2	70	0.75×
40	Vermont	$65,000	98.0	50	1.25×
41	Idaho	$64,160	95.5	110	0.96×
42	Pennsylvania	$63,150	97.6	980	1.21×
43	Oklahoma	$62,530	87.8	120	0.51×
44	New Mexico	$57,970	92.2	310	2.64×
45	Maryland	$57,950	105.0	590	1.60×
46	Iowa	$56,410	87.8	140	0.69×
47	Connecticut	$56,190	103.6	300	1.32×
48	New Jersey	$54,720	108.8	860	1.51×
49	Mississippi	$49,330	87.0	130	0.81×
50	Delaware	$47,640	99.8	40	0.61×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. States where first-line supervisors of protective service workers, all other wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Best paying metro areas for first-line supervisors of protective service workers, all other

The 40 highest-paying metros with a published estimate. BLS suppresses roughly half of all occupation-by-metro cells, so a metro absent here has no local figure rather than a low one.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	Metro area	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$103,240	111.9	370	1.82×
2	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$98,590	115.6	270	0.84×
3	Salem, OR	$97,500	103.6	40	1.40×
4	Memphis, TN-MS-AR	$96,100	92.2	100	1.19×
5	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$94,810	113.6	810	0.97×
6	Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY	$92,640	109.4	40	1.12×
7	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$92,410	110.4	110	0.70×
8	Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT	$92,000	106.9	40	0.67×
9	Bakersfield-Delano, CA	$91,170	100.9	40	0.79×
10	Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN	$90,920	103.6	380	0.64×
11	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$88,650	104.8	110	0.42×
12	Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX	$88,230	98.6	270	0.62×
13	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$87,930	111.1	360	1.29×
14	Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI	$86,990	100.3	140	0.55×
15	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$86,860	112.6	2,010	1.59×
16	Portland-South Portland, ME	$86,530	101.9	30	0.86×
17	Providence-Warwick, RI-MA	$86,530	101.8	40	0.41×
18	Anchorage, AK	$86,380	105.4	50	2.06×
19	Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR	$86,260	91.4	50	1.43×
20	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	$86,200	106.4	180	0.80×
21	Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA	$84,770	100.1	330	0.86×
22	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$84,680	106.7	170	1.16×
23	Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY	$84,350	95.8	80	1.07×
24	Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA	$84,070	98.7	60	1.40×
25	Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY	$83,910	99.6	100	1.60×
26	Syracuse, NY	$83,780	95.7	40	0.91×
27	Kahului-Wailuku, HI	$83,740	109.4	40	3.76×
28	Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX	$83,050	103.1	410	0.76×
29	Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL	$81,370	114.2	550	1.47×
30	Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN	$81,330	96.3	60	0.43×
31	Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL	$81,330	102.3	40	1.05×
32	Birmingham, AL	$80,790	91.6	40	0.51×
33	Baton Rouge, LA	$80,290	90.8	60	1.15×
34	Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ	$79,910	103.3	230	0.71×
35	Cleveland, OH	$79,770	93.9	70	0.50×
36	Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL	$78,850	101.4	190	1.01×
37	Madison, WI	$78,850	97.3	40	0.69×
38	Savannah, GA	$78,850	95.2	40	1.35×
39	Jacksonville, FL	$78,850	99.5	60	0.55×
40	Flagstaff, AZ	$78,850	100.3	30	3.39×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. Metro areas where first-line supervisors of protective service workers, all other wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

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What the range looks like

Getting in

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Best paying metro areas for first-line supervisors of protective service workers, all other

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