Senior-Level

Security Officer Site Supervisor

A senior supervisor of security officers at a specific site, you own the security force operations for a single property — hospital campus, corporate building, mall, hotel, school — supervising shifts, leading incidents, and serving as the senior security voice on the property.

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

What it's like to be a Security Officer Site Supervisor

Site supervision threads across shifts, officers, property management, and incident response — sitting with the property operations team, supervising shift supervisors, coaching officers, leading incident response, supporting visitor and contractor access decisions. You're often the senior security voice in the property's operational decisions. Site incidents and security-program performance anchor the operating measures.

The harder part is often the embedded-stakeholder relational layer — site supervisors operate within property operations leadership, building relationships with property managers, tenants, and operations staff while maintaining security discipline. Variance across sites shapes the work: hospital sites carry visitor management and patient/family interactions; corporate sites carry executive-presence considerations; retail and hospitality sites blend security with customer-experience expectations.

People who do well here tend to be operationally fluent, comfortable embedded in a single site's rhythm, and steady during after-hours incident response. CPP credentials anchor advancement. The trade-off is the property-dependency dimension — site supervisors build their reputations within specific properties, and significant changes in property ownership or operations can reshape the role.

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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 Officer Site Supervisors (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 ThinkingActive ListeningReading ComprehensionJudgment and Decision MakingComplex Problem SolvingMonitoringSocial PerceptivenessSpeakingCoordinationWriting
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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