Homeland security salary information for 2012 is available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The median annual salaries of homeland security professionals in Louisiana are listed below. They are followed by the average salary figure for those who earned in the top tenth wage percentile.
Homeland Security Jobs
Median Salary
Top 10th Percentile
Explosives Workers
$30400
$37230
Information Security Analysts
$67100
$90080
Supervisors of Protective Service Workers
$37880
$65060
Transportation Security Screeners
$35310
$45150
The median incomes for information security analysts, the supervisors of protective service workers, and transportation security screeners were higher for Baton Rouge than for the state average. They were $68,030, $41,410, and $38,380, respectively.
The average top tenth percentile salary for the supervisors of protective workers in New Orleans was $72,900—substantially higher than the average for Louisiana as a whole.
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 Louisiana’s major cities.
Louisiana 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
Annual 90th percentile wage
Baton Rouge LA
110
32.25
67080
32.71
38.74
44.70
68030
80570
92990
Lafayette LA
50
21.00
43680
18.02
26.13
33.62
37480
54350
69940
New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner LA
290
33.62
69930
33.74
37.72
43.73
70180
78460
90950
Louisiana 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
Annual 90th percentile wage
Baton Rouge LA
70
21.62
44970
19.91
26.00
33.64
41410
54070
69980
Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux LA
30
19.59
40740
17.95
21.39
27.39
37330
44500
56970
Lafayette LA
40
23.07
47970
22.86
26.24
29.61
47540
54580
61600
New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner LA
180
21.19
44080
17.90
27.98
35.05
37240
58210
72900
Shreveport-Bossier City LA
90
16.43
34180
15.69
18.11
24.65
32640
37660
51280
Natchitoches nonmetropolitan area
40
21.41
44540
21.14
24.42
27.70
43980
50800
57620
Louisiana 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
Annual 90th percentile wage
Baton Rouge LA
100
18.30
38060
18.45
20.29
22.33
38380
42210
46450
New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner LA
390
17.60
36600
17.00
19.29
21.81
35370
40130
45370
Shreveport-Bossier City LA
70
16.76
34850
16.41
18.45
20.42
34130
38390
42480
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