Mid-Level

Security Site Manager

A site-based security manager, you own security operations at a specific facility — hospital campus, corporate building, manufacturing plant, hotel, university — supervising on-site officers, coordinating with operations, and serving as the senior security voice for the property.

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Job markets for Security Site Managers
Employment concentration · ~347 areas
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What it's like

What it's like to be a Security Site Manager

Site management threads across the building, the operations team, and the security force — walking the property, supervising officers, sitting with site operations on emerging issues, coordinating vendor and contractor access, leading on-site incident response. You're often the security voice in operational decisions that touch access, safety, or risk. Site incidents and security-program performance anchor the operating measures.

The harder part is often the local-stakeholder coordination — site security depends on operations leadership, facilities, HR, and many other functions, and managers navigate the relationships while maintaining security discipline. Variance across sites shapes the work: hospital sites carry visitor management and clinical-area security; manufacturing sites blend security with safety; corporate campuses run executive-protection considerations alongside facility security.

It tends to fit people operationally fluent, comfortable embedded in a single site's rhythms, and steady during incidents. CPP and site-specific credentials anchor advancement. The trade-off is the single-site dependency — site security managers often build their reputations within a specific property over years, and changes in site ownership or operations can reshape the role significantly.

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Career Paths

Where this role sits in the broader career landscape — and where it can take you.

$239K$179K$119K$60K$0KLower paying387 metro areas, sorted by salary level
All experience levels1
This level's estimated range
INDUSTRIES PAYING ABOVE AVERAGE
1 BLS OEWS May 2024 covers all Security Site Managers (SOC 11-3013.01), not just this title · BEA RPP 2023
* Top salaries exceed this figure. BLS caps reported wages at ~$240K to protect individual privacy in high-earning roles.
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The Broader Landscape

Roles like this one sit within a broader occupational category. The numbers below reflect that full landscape — helpful for context, but your specific experience will depend on level, specialty, and where you work.

$63K–$173K
Salary Range
10th – 90th percentile
141K
U.S. Employment
+3.8%
10yr Growth
13K
Annual Openings

How this category is changing

$74K$71K$68K$65K$62K201920202021202220232024$62K$74K
BLS OEWS May 2024 · BLS Employment Projections 2024–2034

Skills & Requirements

Critical ThinkingReading ComprehensionJudgment and Decision MakingActive ListeningComplex Problem SolvingSpeakingMonitoringSocial PerceptivenessCoordinationWriting
O*NET OnLine · Bureau of Labor Statistics
11-3013.01

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Federal data: BLS Occupational Employment & Wage Statistics (May 2024) · BLS Employment Projections · O*NET OnLine
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