Bailiffs

Bailiffs pays $56,600, a little over the $50,020 all-occupation midpoint — $6,580 a year clear, or $3.16 an hour. A margin that size is worth having but is not on its own a reason to take on an entry requirement.

Employment as Bailiffs is 17,310 nationally. At that size a large city holds a working market and a small one holds almost none, so where you live changes the number of employers available to you by an order of magnitude.

Law enforcement suits people who can be the visible authority in a hostile moment and then write it up accurately afterwards, knowing the record will be read adversarially.

How long it takes to become one of the 17,310 people doing this is not something we have a source for. BLS counts and pays them; it does not record how they got there, and we would rather say so than guess.

The quarters sit at $43,720 and $74,630 — 1.7x, or $2,575 a month apart. At that width the occupation contains genuinely different jobs, and which one you are being offered matters more than the title does.

A quarter of Bailiffs earn less than $43,720, $6,300 off the $50,020 national midpoint — $21.01 an hour. The floor here is close enough to ordinary that the case against this work, if there is one, is not financial.

Avoid it if you could not accept that your worst thirty seconds may be reviewed for years afterwards.

No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 17,310 figure counts people already working as Bailiffs, not everyone who trained and never got hired. Without a licensing register to divide by, a rate here would be an invented denominator.

A ratio of 1.7x — $43,720 to $74,630 — is wide enough that specialising inside Bailiffs pays measurably. $56,600 is the middle of a range you can move within.

In cash terms the middle half of Bailiffs runs $43,720 to $74,630 — $30,910 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $56,600.

Between $43,720 and $74,630 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $56,600. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $18,030; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $30,910.

$18,030 separates $56,600 from the $74,630 top quarter, while only $12,880 separates it from $43,720. The range leans upward, which means the middle of Bailiffs has more room above it than a symmetric reading of the median would suggest.

Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $21.01 at the bottom quarter, $27.21 at the midpoint, $35.87 at the top quarter. The typical American job works out at $24.04 on the same basis.