Texas Homeland Security Salaries

Texas provides a number of jobs for those who specialize in homeland security. Salary data for these positions are available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The average 2012 salaries of key homeland security occupations in Texas are listed below. They are followed by the average salary of those in the top tenth of their profession.

While the salaries of transportation security screeners were fairly uniform throughout the state, those of the other professions listed varied quite a bit in different geographic areas of Texas.

Explosive workers earned more than the state’s average when they were located in San Antonio with wages averaging $54,100 in 2012.

The salaries of the supervisors of protective service workers were higher both in certain cities and in the nonmetropolitan areas of eastern and central Texas. The top earners in Amarillo averaged $116,590 a year.

Information security analysts in Austin averaged $93,430 a year, while those in Houston had an average salary of $94,850. The top earners in these two cities averaged $135,820 and $147,880 a year, respectively.

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 Texas’ major cities.

Texas Information Security Analyst Salaries

Texas Ordnance Handling Expert Salaries

Texas Protective Service Workers Supervisor Salaries

Texas Transportation Security Screener Salaries

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