Texas · SOC 33-0000 · Annual, 2025

Protective service occupations in Texas

Employment and average annual wage for SOC 33-0000 in Texas, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.

In 2025, about 319,800 people in Texas worked in protective service occupations (SOC 33-0000), with an average annual wage of $68,380.

Employment in protective service occupations in Texas grew 7.9% from 2020 to 2025. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 319,800. Quarterly values, full occupation detail and projections to 2036 for Texas are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 319,800Employment, 2025
  • $68,380Mean annual wage
  • 2.3%Share of Texas jobs
  • 0.94Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in protective service occupations in Texas, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 234,900 to 319,800.0100K200K300K400K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 234,900; 2005 238,000; 2006 243,500; 2007 248,300; 2008 256,100; 2009 260,400; 2010 264,300; 2011 264,300; 2012 264,900; 2013 268,200; 2014 272,800; 2015 276,900; 2016 282,500; 2017 283,800; 2018 291,100; 2019 303,200; 2020 296,500; 2021 296,300; 2022 300,900; 2023 307,800; 2024 317,700; 2025 319,800.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentMean annual wageChange
2025319,814$68,383 0.7%
2024317,745$66,175 3.2%
2023307,801$63,374 2.3%
2022300,936$61,672 1.6%
2021296,339$59,321 0.0%
2020296,460$57,413 2.2%
2019303,163$54,557 4.1%
2018291,127$52,902 2.6%
2017283,832$51,449 0.5%
2016282,485$48,652 2.0%

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.

Occupation values are DTG estimates built on OEWS and DTG's industry data, as described in the methodology. Method: Occupation.

Notes

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Protective service occupations in Texas, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for protective service occupations in Texas. A free account shows every detailed occupation in the group, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.

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