Bailiffs Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

The five rows are five different workers in the same occupation, from the 10th percentile ($32,950) to the 90th ($93,950). BLS suppresses cells that fail its reliability rules (n/p here) and caps the highest wages at $239,200+ a year or $115.00+ an hour; in this ladder that top code appears at the very top rows only.

Employment and concentration

May 2024 employment stood at 16,910, or 0.01% of the U.S. total. New York leads the state table with 3,630 jobs; the top three states sum to 36.5% of the occupation. The concentration measure tells the more interesting story: North Dakota posts a location quotient of 3.82, so a worker there is far more likely to meet a colleague in this field than the national pattern suggests.

Read the ladder as a career path in numbers: $43,420 at the 25th percentile, $57,050 at the middle, $77,880 at the 75th. The full 10-to-90 range runs $61,000, a ratio of 2.9 to 1. Where a specific job offer lands on that range says more about the role's level than the occupation's headline median does.

Pay by state

Sorted by employment, the table below puts New York first at 3,630 jobs; sorted by median pay instead, Connecticut would lead at $109,150. Both orderings are printed in one table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Bailiffs stands number 590 by employment and number 453 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Protective Service Occupations, the group median wage is $58,610 across 24 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 3% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.5% of the group's 3,654,920 jobs. In 15 of the 41 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $57,050, which is the single best quick test of whether this occupation's pay is set nationally or locally: a high count means local markets regularly outbid the national figure.

Metropolitan areas: where the jobs and the pay sit

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ is the largest metro employer with 2,500 jobs, 14.8% of the national total. Below, the biggest employers come first; the pay table after it only counts metros with 500 or more jobs in the occupation, so its leader is a real market and not a statistical artifact.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $40,150 a year, against $80,960 in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. Anyone relocating for this work should price the destination metro's table row, not the national median, before signing anything.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

As a household number, $57,050 a year is $4,754 a month gross, $2,194 every two weeks, $1,097 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($43,420) to the 75th ($77,880) is worth $34,460 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. The next step from a gross figure is a net one: run the $4,754 monthly figure through the paycheck calculator applies your state's taxes, the salary calculator compares two offers in any unit, and the raise vs inflation calculator tells you whether a nominal raise is a real one.

To place a real offer: a salary of $62,755 would sit between the median ($57,050) and the 75th percentile ($77,880), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $43,420, is $13,630 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Protective Service Occupations

The occupations BLS groups with this one, by size: Security Guards, Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers, Correctional Officers and Jailers, Firefighters, First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives, Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers. Every one of the 826 published occupations is indexed on the Careers hub.