Salaries for homeland security personnel in Kentucky are available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for 2012. Salary data for various positions is listed below with the average annual salary followed by that of those professionals who earned in the top tenth percentile.
Homeland Security Jobs
Mean Salary
Top 10th Percentile
Explosives Workers
$44610
$54590
Information Security Analysts
$68790
$118220
Supervisors of Protective Service Workers
$39140
$59760
Transportation Security Screeners
$36650
$43690
The salaries for information security analysts varied widely throughout the state. Those in Louisville had average annual and top tenth salaries much higher than the average for Kentucky. They were $85,390 and $133,510. Those in the top tenth percentile of this field earned $141,550 on average in the nonmetropolitan area of west central Kentucky.
Protective service worker supervisor salaries also varied a great deal. Those in Lexington earned an average salary of $40,400 with the top earners having made $65,540. Explosives workers received higher salaries in the nonmetropolitan area of eastern Kentucky. Their annual average was $47,860 while the top earners garnered $68,490.
The information shown in these tables was furnished by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and represents salary data for many of the different homeland security jobs one could find in Kentucky’s major cities.
Kentucky Information Security Analyst Salaries
Area name
Employment
Hourly mean wage
Annual mean wage
Hourly median wage
Hourly 75th percentile wage
Hourly 90th percentile
Annual median
Annual 75th percentile
Annual 90th percentile wage
Cincinnati-Middletown OH-KY-IN
670
36.31
75530
35.61
44.25
54.99
74060
92050
114390
Evansville IN-KY
40
33.94
70600
29.44
41.25
58.33
61230
85810
121320
Lexington-Fayette KY
40
33.32
69300
30.34
40.81
46.64
63110
84890
97020
Louisville-Jefferson County KY-IN
150
41.05
85390
39.74
53.17
64.19
82650
110590
133510
West Central Kentucky nonmetropolitan area
Estimate Not Released
32.97
68590
21.99
60.01
68.06
45750
124830
141550
Kentucky Ordnance Handling Expert Salaries
Area name
Employment
Hourly mean wage
Annual mean wage
Hourly median wage
Hourly 75th percentile wage
Hourly 90th percentile
Annual median
Annual 75th percentile
Annual 90th percentile wage
West Central Kentucky nonmetropolitan area
230
21.05
43790
19.98
22.74
24.65
41550
47310
51280
East Kentucky nonmetropolitan area
Estimate Not Released
23.01
47860
21.58
26.06
32.93
44890
54200
68490
Kentucky Protective Service Workers Supervisor Salaries
Area name
Employment
Hourly mean wage
Annual mean wage
Hourly median wage
Hourly 75th percentile wage
Hourly 90th percentile
Annual median
Annual 75th percentile
Annual 90th percentile wage
Cincinnati-Middletown OH-KY-IN
350
22.21
46190
21.13
27.09
34.50
43950
56350
71770
Evansville IN-KY
40
20.88
43430
19.87
25.27
27.10
41340
52570
56360
Huntington-Ashland WV-KY-OH
50
22.66
47130
21.62
30.75
34.49
44960
63960
71730
Lexington-Fayette KY
80
19.42
40400
18.33
25.47
31.51
38140
52980
65540
Louisville-Jefferson County KY-IN
240
21.34
44400
22.15
26.14
28.59
46070
54380
59460
Owensboro KY
60
12.3
25590
11.26
13.29
16.66
23420
27650
34650
West Kentucky nonmetropolitan area
50
21.97
45700
20.42
27.53
32.24
42470
57260
67060
South Central Kentucky nonmetropolitan area
40
19.69
40950
20.33
22.30
26.97
42280
46380
56090
West Central Kentucky nonmetropolitan area
70
21.32
44350
20.52
25.47
36.51
42670
52980
75940
East Kentucky nonmetropolitan area
150
11.79
24530
10.64
11.46
14.31
22130
23840
29760
Kentucky Transportation Security Screener Salaries
Area name
Employment
Hourly mean wage
Annual mean wage
Hourly median wage
Hourly 75th percentile wage
Hourly 90th percentile
Annual median
Annual 75th percentile
Annual 90th percentile wage
Cincinnati-Middletown OH-KY-IN
290
18.41
38280
17.74
19.60
22.56
36890
40780
46920
Evansville IN-KY
30
17.13
35630
16.95
18.58
21.03
35250
38640
43740
Lexington-Fayette KY
50
16.09
33470
16.09
18.08
18.83
33460
37610
39160
Louisville-Jefferson County KY-IN
130
16.71
34760
16.57
17.99
19.30
34460
37410
40140
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