Counted October 17, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Security Specialist: $89K median posted pay.
From 47 salary bands employers posted on 59 open security specialist roles in protective service. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
| Level | Open roles | Median posted band | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mid | 4 | — (3 of 8 bands) | — |
| Senior | 4 | — (1 of 8 bands) | — |
| Management | 1 | — (1 of 8 bands) | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Air National Guard Units | 6 | — |
| Army National Guard Units | 5 | — |
| U.S. Coast Guard | 4 | — |
| U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | 4 | — |
| Air Force Materiel Command | 3 | — |
| Sierra Space | 3 | — |
| Flextronics | 2 | — |
| Department of Homeland Security Headquarters | 2 | — |
| Federal Emergency Management Agency | 2 | — |
| United States Fleet Forces Command | 2 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open security specialist roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Security Operations | 15 | — |
| Investigation | 12 | — |
| Law Enforcement | 12 | — |
| Emergency Response | 7 | — |
| TypeScript | 6 | — |
| Risk Management | 6 | — |
| Spreadsheet Analysis | 4 | — |
| Cybersecurity | 4 | — |
| Business Continuity | 4 | — |
| Loss Prevention | 3 | — |
Where the work is
0% of these roles are remote.
- Remote0%0 roles
- Hybrid0%0 roles
- On site92%54 roles
- Not stated8%5 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 59 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 47 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Security Specialist (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.