Various types of homeland security personnel are employed in Kansas, and the salaries differ throughout the state, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Here are the average salaries for 2012 for several types of homeland security positions, in addition to the wages of those in the top tenth percentile of their field.
Homeland Security Jobs
Mean Salary
Top 10th Percentile
Information Security Analysts
$72030
$103270
Supervisors of Protective Service Workers
$43990
$69280
Transportation Security Screeners
$35970
$43150
The average annual salaries for information security analysts, protective service workers supervisors, and transportation security screeners were higher in Wichita than in Kansas as a whole. They were $74,030, $45,810, and $36,660, respectively.
Information security analysts who earned in the top tenth percentile of their field had higher salaries in Kansas City than the average for the state. They earned $103,270 a year.
Top earners in the field of supervising protective workers had an average annuals salary of $75,400 a year in Wichita, while the professionals employed in the nonmetropolitan areas of Kansas averaged $50,410 a year.
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 Kansas’ major cities.
Kansas 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
Kansas City MO-KS
700
34.25
71240
32.71
41.41
50.04
68030
86130
104080
Topeka KS
60
30.05
62500
28.64
34.08
41.71
59560
70880
86750
Wichita KS
90
35.59
74030
35.88
42.64
48.89
74630
88690
101680
Kansas nonmetropolitan area
70
31.26
65020
28.74
38.59
46.33
59780
80270
96370
Kansas 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
Kansas City MO-KS
310
21.96
45690
20.50
26.86
33.26
42630
55870
69180
Topeka KS
Estimate not released
21.27
44240
20.04
25.52
33.5
41680
53080
69680
Wichita KS
90
22.02
45810
20.20
27.82
36.25
42010
57860
75400
Kansas nonmetropolitan area
70
24.24
50410
25.16
28.20
32.20
52330
58650
66970
Kansas 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
Wichita KS
90
17.63
36660
16.90
19.20
20.94
35140
39940
43550
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