The Bureau of Labor Statistics has provided 2012 salary data for a number of different types of homeland security professionals that are employed in Iowa. The average annual income for several of these professions is listed below, followed by the average wage of those in the top tenth percentile.
Homeland Security Jobs
Mean Salary
Top 10th Percentile
Explosives Workers
$43970
$65110
Information Security Analysts
$70040
$98070
Supervisors of Protective Service Workers
$40030
$63360
Transportation Security Screeners
$36740
$43940
In some fields, salaries vary quite a bit throughout the state. Information security analysts in Cedar Rapids had an average annual salary of $70,480 with those in the top tenth percentile of this field earning $102,460. Protective service worker supervisors in Waterloo/Cedar Falls in the top tenth percentile averaged $67,670 a year.
The situation for transportation security screeners in Iowa is different. The salaries in the main cities are consistently lower than the averages for the state as a whole. For instance, transportation security screeners in Des Moines earned an average salary of 34,260 with top earners making $39,450.
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 Iowa’s major cities.
Iowa 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
Cedar Rapids IA
70
33.88
70480
32.75
41.11
49.26
68110
85520
102460
Des Moines-West Des Moines IA
220
34.94
72670
34.01
42.61
49.18
70750
88620
102280
Omaha-Council Bluffs NE-IA
410
36.79
76530
36.46
45.25
53.72
75830
94110
111750
Iowa 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
Northeast Iowa nonmetropolitan area
60
22.60
47000
21.06
30.09
33.93
43800
62600
70570
Iowa 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
Davenport-Moline-Rock Island IA-IL
50
22.26
46300
21.82
26.73
30.25
45380
55590
62930
Des Moines-West Des Moines IA
110
20.12
41850
19.92
23.68
29.67
41430
49250
61710
Iowa City IA
30
13.07
27180
11.18
15.63
20.73
23250
32500
43120
Omaha-Council Bluffs NE-IA
180
22.40
46590
22.43
27.87
33.49
46650
57960
69660
Waterloo-Cedar Falls IA
50
20.17
41960
17.76
22.10
32.53
36930
45970
67670
Southeast Iowa nonmetropolitan area
40
16.75
34830
16.67
21.17
23.33
34670
44030
48520
Iowa 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
Cedar Rapids IA
60
16.94
35230
16.28
17.22
19.28
33850
35810
40110
Davenport-Moline-Rock Island IA-IL
70
17.27
35920
16.96
18.64
19.36
35280
38780
40270
Des Moines-West Des Moines IA
100
16.47
34260
16.17
18.11
18.97
33620
37670
39450
Omaha-Council Bluffs NE-IA
170
16.98
35320
16.88
18.03
19.03
35110
37490
39580
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