Occupation / job
First-Line Supervisors of Protective Service Workers, All Other
Median annual pay. Half earn less than this.
Hourly at a standard 2,080-hour year. We do not yet have unpaid-time or cost data for this, so this is not an adjusted figure.
The middle half. A quarter earn below this range.
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 · view
What this figure cannot tell you
It covers people EMPLOYED in this occupation. Anyone who trained for it and was never hired is not in the median above, and neither is anyone doing the work self-employed. No verified count of qualified people exists for this occupation, so this page shows none rather than an estimate. Why that matters · The occupations where we could source it
Who this suits
First-Line Supervisors of Protective Service Workers, All Other pays $76,400 at the midpoint, 53% above the $50,020 national figure. Premiums that size are rationed by something; find out what before the salary does your thinking for you.
With 20,690 employed as First-Line Supervisors of Protective Service Workers, All Other, most metros have a working market: several employers, visible turnover, and the ability to change jobs without moving house.
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.
No verified preparation time is on file for First-Line Supervisors of Protective Service Workers, All Other. The wage survey behind every figure on this page asks employers what they pay, not what they required, so the honest answer here is that we do not know.
Who should not do this
A quarter of the field earns under $52,400 and a quarter over $92,890: $40,490 between them, a ratio of 1.8x. Wide enough that the first offer you get tells you more about your prospects than the median does.
The bottom quarter of First-Line Supervisors of Protective Service Workers, All Other still clears $52,400 — $2,380 above the $50,020 typical job. A high floor is the most valuable and least advertised property an occupation can have.
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 20,690 figure counts people already working as First-Line Supervisors of Protective Service Workers, All Other, not everyone who trained and never got hired. Without a licensing register to divide by, a rate here would be an invented denominator.
What the spread tells you
At 1.8x, the distribution for First-Line Supervisors of Protective Service Workers, All Other is open enough that specialisation starts to pay. The distance from $52,400 to $92,890 is mostly what you can do that others in the same title cannot.
The middle half of this field earns between $52,400 and $92,890. That is $40,490 of range, with $76,400 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.
The 75th percentile is $92,890. Reaching it from the $76,400 midpoint is $16,490 a year; reaching it from the $52,400 that the bottom quarter of First-Line Supervisors of Protective Service Workers, All Other earn is $40,490.
The midpoint sits high inside its own range: $24,000 above the $52,400 bottom quarter but only $16,490 below the $92,890 top quarter. Most of the distance in First-Line Supervisors of Protective Service Workers, All Other is spent climbing out of the bottom, and once you are past the middle there is not much further to go.
Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $36.73 at the midpoint for First-Line Supervisors of Protective Service Workers, All Other, $25.19 at the 25th percentile and $44.65 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.
What these figures are, and what they are not
This is payroll data: it comes from employers, about people they employ. Anyone doing the work of First-Line Supervisors of Protective Service Workers, All Other for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $76,400 describes them.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for First-Line Supervisors of Protective Service Workers, All Other, the hourly figure is $76,400 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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