Nevada Homeland Security Salaries

Nevada is home to a number of homeland security professionals. 2012 salary data on a number of these occupations is available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Key salary data are presented below with the average salary of those who earn in the top tenth percentile in Nevada preceding the median annual salary.

Homeland Security Jobs
Top 10th Percentile
Explosives Workers
$73590
Information Security Analysts
$127070
Supervisors of Protective Service Workers
$68160
Transportation Security Screeners
$41070

Information security analysts in Las Vegas who were in the top tenth percentile earned more than the average value for Nevada’s average in that category. They earned $130,560.

In contrast, transportation security screeners in Las Vegas and Reno earned about the same as the state’s average. Their median incomes were $34,540 and $34,120, respectively.

In the case of the protective service worker supervisors, professionals outside of the cities earned more. Their median wage was $49,780 with top earners averaging $86,990 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 Nevada’s major cities.

Nevada Information Security Analyst Salaries

Area name
Employment
Annual mean wage
Las Vegas-Paradise NV
180
79440

Nevada Ordnance Handling Expert Salaries

Area name
Employment
Annual mean wage
Other Nevada nonmetropolitan area
490
57130

Nevada Protective Service Workers Supervisor Salaries

Area name
Employment
Annual mean wage
Las Vegas-Paradise NV
1060
48130
Reno-Sparks NV
160
43590
Other Nevada nonmetropolitan area
70
49770

Nevada Transportation Security Screener Salaries

Area name
Employment
Annual mean wage
Las Vegas-Paradise NV
1090
35090
Reno-Sparks NV
200
34700

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