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Protective service

What is this page & how do I use it?

This is a sector view — every protective service career CareerStar rates, on the same neutral baseline, with field-level stats up top so you can size up the whole field at a glance.

How to use it: the table is ranked best-first. Click any career for its full report, and watch the moat column — 🏰 wide means well-shielded from AI, — means broadly exposed.

Careers
22
Median score
41
Avg growth
+1.2%
Wide moats
7/22

Every protective service career, on a neutral baseline · median pay $59k · click a career for its full report · moat = how shielded from AI (🏰 wide = well-defended, 🛡 narrow = some shelter, — = broadly exposed)

CareerRatingMoatGrowthPay
Forest fire inspectors and prevention specialists4.5 · 58🛡 Narrow+14.6%$52k
Fire inspectors and investigators4.5 · 54🛡 Narrow+3.8%$78k
First-line supervisors of police and detectives4.5 · 54🏰 Wide+2.9%$106k
First-line supervisors of firefighting and prevention workers4.0 · 53🛡 Narrow+3.4%$92k
Transit and railroad police4.0 · 52🏰 Wide+3%$82k
Police and sheriff's patrol officers4.0 · 51🏰 Wide+3.1%$76k
Firefighters4.0 · 49🏰 Wide+3.4%$60k
Private detectives and investigators4.0 · 49+6%$52k
Detectives and criminal investigators3.5 · 44🛡 Narrow-0.7%$94k
Lifeguards, ski patrol, and other recreational protective service workers3.0 · 42🛡 Narrow+5.8%$34k
First-line supervisors of security workers3.0 · 41🛡 Narrow+2.7%$59k
Animal control workers3.0 · 40+3.9%$46k
First-line supervisors of correctional officers3.0 · 39🏰 Wide-2.8%$76k
Crossing guards and flaggers3.0 · 37+3.6%$38k
Bailiffs3.0 · 35🛡 Narrow-2.2%$57k
Fish and game wardens3.0 · 35🏰 Wide-6%$68k
Transportation security screeners2.5 · 33-6%$63k
Correctional officers and jailers2.0 · 29🛡 Narrow-7.8%$58k
Parking enforcement workers2.0 · 29-1.5%$47k
Gambling surveillance officers and gambling investigators2.0 · 28+0.3%$44k
Security guards2.0 · 28🏰 Wide+0.4%$38k
School bus monitors1.5 · 22-2.7%$35k