Counted October 17, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Security Guard: $55K median posted pay.
From 48 salary bands employers posted on 85 open security guard roles in protective service. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
No level is named often enough in these postings to build a ladder.
Levels as the postings name them. A rung shows a median only where eight or more postings at that level carried a band.
Who is hiring
The employers with the most open.
| Employer | Open roles | Entry level |
|---|---|---|
| Commander, Navy Installations Command | 13 | — |
| Asmglobal | 8 | — |
| United States Army Installation Management Command | 8 | — |
| Carvana | 5 | — |
| Bureau of Reclamation | 5 | — |
| Army Tank-Automotive and Armament Command (TACOM) | 3 | — |
| Equus | 3 | — |
| Classet | 3 | — |
| Quality, Compassionate Care For All | 3 | — |
| U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | 3 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open security guard roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Security Operations | 85 | — |
| Law Enforcement | 17 | — |
| Customer Service | 16 | — |
| CPR and Basic Life Support | 15 | — |
| Report Writing | 14 | — |
| Emergency Response | 8 | — |
| Inventory Control | 5 | — |
| Prescription Dispensing | 5 | — |
| Investigation | 5 | — |
| Spreadsheet Analysis | 4 | — |
Where the work is
0% of these roles are remote.
- Remote0%0 roles
- Hybrid0%0 roles
- On site78%66 roles
- Not stated22%19 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 85 open postings read from employers’ own job boards on October 17, 2026, and recounted every night. Pay is the band the employer posted — never an estimate, never a model — and 48 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Security Guard (Nights)” counts here too. 100% of roles with this title sit in protective service, which is why this page belongs to that career. A title gets a page only where twenty-five or more roles are open, eight or more of them posted a band, three or more employers are hiring for it and four in five of its postings sit in one career, so no page here is a guess.