First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives

$106,040 against a $50,020 national midpoint is 112% more, or $26.93 an hour. Almost nothing pays this much more without a long, expensive or restricted route in — read that route before reading the number again.

154,610 people are employed as First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives. At that size there is a real ladder and enough churn that experience can be sold to a competitor rather than only accumulated where you are.

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.

How long it takes to become one of the 154,610 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.

$81,860 to $132,620 — 1.6x, or $4,230 a month between the quarters. An unremarkable spread, which means the useful planning number for First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives is the bottom of it rather than the middle.

The bottom quarter of this field earns $81,860 — $39.35 an hour, $31,840 above the $50,020 national midpoint. When even the worst-paid quarter of First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives is this far ahead, the barrier to entry is doing the work of keeping it there.

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

There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 154,610 people employed as First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives; it did not count the people who trained for it and are doing something else, and a rate built without that denominator would be a number we made up.

A 1.6x ratio is the most common shape in this data: some room to move, none of it quick. Read $106,040 as where you might be after years in First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives, and $81,860 as where you would start.

In cash terms the middle half of First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives runs $81,860 to $132,620 — $50,760 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $106,040.

Between $81,860 and $132,620 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $106,040. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $26,580; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $50,760.

$106,040 sits almost exactly in the middle of its own range — $24,180 above the bottom quarter, $26,580 below the top one. A symmetric distribution like this is the case where the median genuinely does describe the typical person.

Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $50.98 at the midpoint for First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives, $39.35 at the 25th percentile and $63.75 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.