South Carolina · SOC 33-0000 · Annual, 2025
Protective service occupations in South Carolina
Employment and average annual wage for SOC 33-0000 in South Carolina, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.
In 2025, about 54,200 people in South Carolina worked in protective service occupations (SOC 33-0000), with an average annual wage of $53,400.
Employment in protective service occupations in South Carolina grew 11.4% from 2020 to 2025. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 54,200. Quarterly values, full occupation detail and projections to 2036 for South Carolina are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 54,200Employment, 2025
- $53,400Mean annual wage
- 2.3%Share of South Carolina jobs
- 0.97Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 43,000; 2005 44,600; 2006 43,000; 2007 44,500; 2008 45,500; 2009 44,700; 2010 45,300; 2011 44,800; 2012 46,100; 2013 46,900; 2014 47,900; 2015 48,500; 2016 49,100; 2017 49,800; 2018 50,500; 2019 50,700; 2020 48,700; 2021 47,300; 2022 47,800; 2023 50,200; 2024 53,200; 2025 54,200.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Mean annual wage | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 54,228 | $53,400 | 1.9% |
| 2024 | 53,216 | $51,501 | 6.0% |
| 2023 | 50,182 | $48,720 | 5.0% |
| 2022 | 47,781 | $46,372 | 0.9% |
| 2021 | 47,329 | $43,880 | 2.8% |
| 2020 | 48,699 | $42,163 | 3.9% |
| 2019 | 50,678 | $39,671 | 0.4% |
| 2018 | 50,495 | $38,716 | 1.3% |
| 2017 | 49,834 | $38,817 | 1.5% |
| 2016 | 49,112 | $36,911 | 1.3% |
The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.
Where these numbers come from
Reading these figures
The figures on this page come from one named vintage, stated below, and are annual values for all ownerships combined. Every occupation value is a DTG estimate: there is no published county or state census of occupations to report, so no value here is marked as published or estimated, and none carries a reliability score. Quarterly figures, county figures, detailed occupations and projected years are in the app.
How these figures are built
DTG’s industry employment fixes how many jobs there are in each industry in the state. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ national industry-occupation matrix says how each industry is staffed, and the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey says how many people work in each occupation in the area and what they earn. DTG makes the three agree, so occupation employment sums to the same totals as industry employment. Employment is the annual average; the mean annual wage is the year’s total occupation wages divided by that average employment. The construction is described in full on the occupation data page.
Notes
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Protective service occupations in South Carolina, quarterly, at full depth
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