Oregon employs a number of homeland security professionals. The Bureau of Labor Statistics provides 2012 salary data for a variety of homeland security occupations in the state. The average salary for selected types of homeland security professionals is listed below. It is followed by the average salary of those who made wages in the top 10th of their profession.
Homeland Security Jobs
Mean Salary
Top 10th Percentile
Information Security Analysts
$57640
$96580
Supervisors of Protective Service Workers
$45370
$64520
Transportation Security Screeners
$36860
$44170
The wages of transportation security screeners were fairly uniform throughout the state. Those in Bend and Eugene/Springfield who were in the top 10th salary bracket earned slightly more than average for the state. The 2012 value for Bend was $46,290 and that in Eugene/Springfield was $45,870.
The top earning information security analysts in Portland made more than the state’s average. They garnered $104,100 a year. Top earning protective service worker supervisors in Salem earned $70,080 annually.
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 Oregon’s major cities.
Oregon 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 wage
Annual 90th percentile wage
Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro OR-WA
400
31.51
65540
27.58
39.61
50.05
57360
82390
104100
Oregon 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 wage
Annual 90th percentile wage
Eugene-Springfield OR
70
18.14
37720
16.29
21.82
26.69
33880
45380
55510
Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro OR-WA
450
23.32
48510
23.32
26.95
31.22
48510
56050
64930
Salem OR
40
21.84
45430
20.84
25.73
33.69
43340
53510
70080
Coastal Oregon nonmetropolitan area
40
20.82
43300
20.55
23.82
28.52
42740
49540
59310
Southern Oregon and Linn County nonmetropolitan area
60
24.34
50620
22.73
31.02
34.27
47280
64520
71290
North Central Oregon nonmetropolitan area
40
21.63
45000
21.64
28.06
31.92
45010
58360
66390
Eastern Oregon nonmetropolitan area
Estimate Not Released
20.15
41920
20.17
26.96
31.28
41950
56070
65060
Oregon 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 wage
Annual 90th percentile wage
Bend OR
40
16.73
34790
16.44
17.84
22.25
34190
37110
46290
Eugene-Springfield OR
60
17.20
35780
16.70
18.45
22.05
34730
38380
45870
Medford OR
50
16.62
34570
16.47
18.45
19.20
34250
38380
39940
Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro OR-WA
440
18.33
38130
18.17
19.87
21.35
37790
41320
44420
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