First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers

A midpoint of $77,970 against $50,020 means First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers pays $2,329 a month more than the typical American job. At that distance the entry requirement is the real subject, because it is what the premium is buying.

53,380 people are employed as First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers. At that scale every large metro has a real market, and the difference between a good year and a bad one is usually which employer you are at rather than whether anyone is hiring.

Supervising protective service suits people who can hold a crew to a standard when the consequence of slipping is somebody’s safety rather than a missed target.

We carry no verified training length for First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.

The quarters sit at $59,890 and $103,320 — 1.7x, or $3,619 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.

Even the bottom quarter of First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers earns $59,890 — $28.79 an hour and $9,870 clear of the $50,020 national midpoint. Very little of this distribution is badly paid.

Avoid it if you could not discipline someone you worked beside for years, which is most of what the stripe actually costs.

No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 53,380 figure counts people already working as First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers, 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 — $59,890 to $103,320 — is wide enough that specialising inside First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers pays measurably. $77,970 is the middle of a range you can move within.

Put in money rather than ratios: $59,890 at the 25th percentile, $77,970 at the midpoint, $103,320 at the 75th. $43,430 separates the quarter of First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers at the bottom from the quarter at the top.

Between $59,890 and $103,320 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $77,970. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $25,350; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $43,430.

$25,350 separates $77,970 from the $103,320 top quarter, while only $18,080 separates it from $59,890. The range leans upward, which means the middle of First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers has more room above it than a symmetric reading of the median would suggest.

On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers is $37.48 an hour. The quarters sit at $28.79 and $49.67, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.