West Virginia · SOC 33-0000 · Annual, 2025
Protective service occupations in West Virginia
Employment and average annual wage for SOC 33-0000 in West Virginia, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.
In 2025, about 17,800 people in West Virginia worked in protective service occupations (SOC 33-0000), with an average annual wage of $51,170.
Employment in protective service occupations in West Virginia grew 8.7% from 2020 to 2025. Quarterly values, full occupation detail and projections to 2036 for West Virginia are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 17,800Employment, 2025
- $51,170Mean annual wage
- 2.6%Share of West Virginia jobs
- 1.07Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 15,800; 2005 15,900; 2006 15,900; 2007 16,000; 2008 16,300; 2009 16,600; 2010 16,900; 2011 17,100; 2012 17,500; 2013 17,700; 2014 17,800; 2015 17,500; 2016 17,100; 2017 16,500; 2018 16,800; 2019 16,500; 2020 16,400; 2021 16,700; 2022 17,900; 2023 18,100; 2024 17,900; 2025 17,800.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Mean annual wage | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17,818 | $51,170 | 0.4% |
| 2024 | 17,897 | $48,932 | 1.0% |
| 2023 | 18,084 | $46,407 | 1.1% |
| 2022 | 17,880 | $42,942 | 7.0% |
| 2021 | 16,715 | $42,156 | 2.0% |
| 2020 | 16,393 | $41,817 | 0.8% |
| 2019 | 16,520 | $39,594 | 1.6% |
| 2018 | 16,792 | $38,455 | 1.5% |
| 2017 | 16,541 | $37,073 | 3.2% |
| 2016 | 17,080 | $35,563 | 2.2% |
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.
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Protective service occupations in West Virginia, quarterly, at full depth
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