First-line supervisors of security workers

SOC 33-1091 · 33-0000 · Score reference month September 2026

Directly supervise and coordinate activities of security workers and security guards.

In short

The national Job Market Health score is in the Balanced band for September 2026.

Job Market Health score

51/ 100
Balanced

Stable

Confidence
High
Restated score
51
Methodology
v1.0
Geography
US
  • At least 90% of required inputs and occupation-industry mapping are covered.

Job Market Health scores are derived indicators based on published data, informational only, not a forecast or guarantee.

$55,940Median annual wageOEWS May 2025
6,800Projected annual openingsBLS Employment Projections 2025-2035
+3.7%Projected growth2025–2035
81,480Total employmentOEWS May 2025

Latest interpretation

What stands out for first-line supervisors of security workers

The clearest signals from the latest validated score, outlook and metro data.

Occupation fundamentals is the strongest component

Occupation fundamentals scores 81/100, compared with 31/100 for current demand, a 50-point difference.

JobMarketHealth score components

Published long-term outlook

BLS projects 6,800 average annual openings and +3.7% employment growth from 2025 to 2035. Projected openings are a modeled annual average, not vacancies open today.

BLS Employment Projections

Largest published metro market

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ has the largest published metro employment count for first-line supervisors of security workers, at 7,310 jobs. The next-largest published metro is Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA with 4,240 jobs. This measures employment scale, not market quality.

BLS OEWS

Local market context

QCEW industry conditions for this occupation’s employment mix

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How to read this section

QCEW measures employment and wages by industry, not by occupation. We weight those industry conditions using the published industry mix for this occupation. These figures describe the industries that employ this occupation; they are not direct counts of people working in the occupation or jobs currently open.

Source: BLS QCEW. This section is not part of the national 0 to 100 Job Market Health score. See the methodology.

Compare states for first-line supervisors of security workersSide-by-side published industry conditions for two or three states. There is no state-level health score; the 0 to 100 score is national.

How to read this page

The score is a national composite from 0 to 100 that weights near term hiring demand at 50 percent, the occupation's own employment fundamentals at 30 percent, and long-term outlook at 20 percent. Wages and occupation profile details are context shown alongside it, not score inputs. See the full methodology.

Median annual wage and metro employment come from BLS OEWS, which is annual. Projected annual openings and projected growth come from BLS Employment Projections and describe the published projection horizon, so they are not a count of jobs open today. Values shown as not published are suppressed by the source rather than filled in here.

Job Market Health trend

Published composite score · 0–100 · by reference month

Latest published values
  • Sep 2651 / 100
View values: Job Market Health history
Job Market Health history
Reference monthScore / 100
Jan 2556
Feb 2554
Mar 2552
Apr 2553
May 2555
Jun 2554
Jul 2553
Aug 2548
Sep 2549
Oct 2549
Nov 2552
Dec 2550
Jan 2651
Feb 2651
Mar 2650
Apr 2651
May 2653
Jun 2655
Jul 2651
Aug 2651
Sep 2651

Score components

The three published inputs behind the composite · each 0–100

Current demand31 / 100
Occupation fundamentals81 / 100
Long-term outlook55 / 100

Largest metro markets by employment

OEWS employment count, where the jobs are, not a quality ranking

OEWS May 2025. These occupation counts describe the survey reference period.

Linked metro names open overall job-market profiles.

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Employment · number of jobs

  • New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ7,310
  • Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA4,240
  • Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL2,900
  • Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV2,400
  • Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV2,240
  • Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX2,160
  • Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN2,120
  • Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD1,960
  • Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA1,750
  • Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX1,710
Largest metro markets by employment
Metro areaEmploymentJobs per 1,000Median annual wage
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ7,3100.77$59,890
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA4,2400.68$49,900
Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL2,9001.03$47,720
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV2,4000.76$73,490
Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV2,2401.97$53,160
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX2,1600.53$46,910
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN2,1200.47$58,990
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD1,9600.68$48,650
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA1,7500.60$49,230
Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX1,7100.52$46,490

Education & training

Typical entry requirements · BLS Employment Projections 2025-2035

Typical education
High school diploma or equivalent
Work experience
Less than 5 years
On-the-job training
None
Projected employment
85,700 jobs

Top skills

Occupation profile · O*NET 31.0 Database

  • Active Listening
  • Critical Thinking
  • Judgment and Decision Making
  • Reading Comprehension
  • Speaking
  • Management of Personnel Resources
  • Monitoring
  • Complex Problem Solving
  • Coordination
  • Social Perceptiveness

Also known as: Campus Safety Chief, Public Safety Manager, Public Safety Supervisor, Security Chief, Security Director, Security Guard Supervisor

AI & this occupation

How AI relates to First-line supervisors of security workers work

Across 2 research exposure measures, First-line supervisors of security workers is in the middle technical AI exposure band based on the mean of the available source-specific percentile ranks. Exposure describes how much of the work the studied AI capabilities could technically assist with; it is not a forecast of job loss.

JobMarketHealth has not measured an AI effect on this occupation's employment or wages, and these figures do not enter its scores; there is no clear evidence of displacement in the data shown here.

Technical AI exposureMiddle exposureMean of 2 available source-specific percentile ranks (4 measures checked); fixed exposure bands, not a national rank of the composite
Dated Claude task exposureNot observedNo Anthropic Economic Index row for this occupation
Business AI use (BTOS Core)24.6%U.S. businesses using AI, two weeks ending 2026-10-04; all industries, not this occupation
Historical task mix (2025)Not enough tasksFewer than 3 observed tasks
Measured labor-market effectNot estimatedJobMarketHealth does not attribute employment or wage changes to AI

Exposure measures (kept separate)

  • GPTs are GPTs exposure (β, GPT-4 rated): 0.40 of 1, national percentile 60 (middle third)
  • Microsoft AI applicability: 0.08 of 1, national percentile 27 (lower third)

National context: what businesses used generative AI for

From the Census 2025-26 BTOS AI Supplement (all industries; businesses whose employees used generative AI). Census did not measure First-line supervisors of security workers specifically.

  • Writing or editing documents, emails, or communications: 85.4%
  • Searching for information or technical help: 49.9%
  • Interpreting, analyzing, translating, or summarizing documents: 44.6%
  • Information processing, paperwork, or filing: 34.7%

Exposure and observed usage are separate measures and neither equals job loss. Census BTOS figures are business-level surveys and are not occupation-specific. Sources: GPTs are GPTs occupation exposure; Microsoft Working with AI: AI applicability; Census BTOS Core AI Use; Census BTOS AI Supplement 2025-26. These figures do not affect Job Market Health scores. Explore AI & Jobs · How we use AI data.

Sources and methodology

The datasets behind the figures on this page

Job Market Health score
Score for reference month September 2026 · methodology v1.0 · MethodologyScore last recalculated Nov 3, 2026 · First published Nov 3, 2026
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
Employment, wages and largest metros · OEWS May 2025 · publisher release May 15, 2026 · About this sourceRetrieved Sep 17, 2026
BLS Employment Projections
Projected growth, openings, education and training · BLS Employment Projections 2025-2035 · publisher release Aug 27, 2026 · About this sourceRetrieved Sep 17, 2026
O*NET
Skills, alternate titles and related occupations · O*NET 31.0 Database · publisher release date not verified · About this sourceRetrieved Oct 19, 2026

Values marked “Not published” are suppressed or not published by the source. We leave them blank rather than estimating them. Pipeline status for every source is on Data Status.

Evidence record

JobMarketHealth derived indicator; not a government statistic. The composite score is national and occupation level.

Occupation
First-line supervisors of security workers
SOC code
33-1091
Geography
United States
Reference month
September 2026
Published Job Market Health score
51 / 100
Restated score
51 / 100
Band
Balanced
Current Demand component
31 / 10050% weight
Occupation Fundamentals component
81 / 10030% weight
Long-Term Outlook component
55 / 10020% weight
Confidence
HighAt least 90% of required inputs and occupation-industry mapping are covered.
Methodology version
v1.0
Source vintage: Annual
EP-2025-2035|CPS-25b-2025|OEWS-2020-2025
Source vintage: Monthly calculated at
2026-11-03T20:58:16.241Z
First published at
Nov 3, 2026
Recalculated at
Nov 3, 2026
Canonical record URL
https://jobmarkethealth.com/occupations/first-line-supervisors-of-security-workers#evidence-record
Derived by
JobMarketHealth

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