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The composite security/loss prevention practitioner with the highest annual income (salary plus cash bonuses and/or profit sharing) is a Security/Loss Prevention Director or Vice President located in New York City, Portland (OR), Houston, Nashville, Boston, Pittsburgh, or San Francisco/Oakland, or in New Jersey, Indiana, or Connecticut. This composite "individual" is employed by a manufacturing/extractive firm in the chemical/pharmaceutical/plastics/rubber, petroleum/coal/natural gas, or food/beverage/tobacco field, a communication firm, a security service, or a merchandising firm with 25,000 employees or more and an annual security budget of $10,000,000 or more. He or she has 25 or more years of experience and a graduate degree, and holds the CPP or CFE certificate, is involved with both DOD and DOE regulations, and reports to the Director of Administrative Services. A fair number of individuals in this group make well in excess of $250,000 per year, although Security/Loss Prevention Directors and Vice Presidents as a group have an average income of $67,617.
Far toward the other end of the income spectrum, Unarmed Security Officers/Guards have an average income of $17,154 per year. The lowest-paid employees in this group are located in San Juan, Nashville, Cincinnati, Detroit, New Orleans, or Memphis, or in West Virginia, Maryland, Tennessee, or Nebraska. This composite "individual" works for a nonprofit organization, security service, museum/art institute, or utility with under 1,000 employees and an annual security budget of under $100,000, in a position that requires little or no prior experience and less than a high school diploma. Such an individual may earn as little as $10,000 per year.
These composites represent the briefest possible "boil-down" of the voluminous data provided by 506 organizations regarding the current salary, salary ranges, and cash bonuses and profit- sharing, and numerous demographic variables for individuals in 30 benchmark jobs in the security/loss prevention field. These organizations took part in the ninth biennial pay survey of the security/loss prevention field, sponsored by the American Society for Industrial Security. The end results of the survey, the most intensive and extensive ever attempted in this field, appear in Compensation in the Security/Loss Prevention Field, 9th Edition, a tightly-packed, two-volume, 413-page statistical analysis of compensation in this field. Copies are available from Abbott, Langer & Associates, Dept. INT, 548 First St., Crete, IL 60417 for $50.00 for Part 1 (Security/Loss Prevention Directors and Vice Presidents), and $435.00 for Part 2 (28 other security/loss prevention jobs).
The average total cash compensation of some of the other 27 jobs surveyed are:
Computer Security Managers . . . . . . . . . . . $55,539
Supervisors of Investigations. . . . . . . . . . $49,916
Sensitive Programs Managers. . . . . . . . . . . $49,003
Security/Loss Prevention Managers. . . . . . . . $45,537
Fire Protection Managers . . . . . . . . . . . . $41,589
Classified Documents Supervisors . . . . . . . . $39,613
Investigators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $37,762
Physical Security Supervisors. . . . . . . . . . $36,733
Supervisors of Guard Operations "C". . . . . . . $31,494
Security/Loss Prevention Training Managers . . . $31,385
Internal Auditors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $26,407
Firefighters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $25,554
Alarm Console Operators "A". . . . . . . . . . . $20,917
Store Detectives/Loss Prevention Agents. . . . . $19,097
Vehicle Gate Control Supervisors . . . . . . . . $16,905
Naturally, these overall figures vary when geographic location,
type of employer, size of organization and security/loss
prevention budget, level of education, length of experience, etc.
are considered. Analyses by each of these variables appear in
the complete report.
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