200+ Security & Public Safety Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Government wage data shows a wide spread. For the broader protective-service occupational family in Los Angeles, annual pay ranged from $37,850 at the 25th percentile to $85,960 at the 75th percentile in 2025, with a median of $45,960 and a mean of $67,510. The BLS also put the metro's mean hourly wage for protective service occupations at $32.46 in May 2025. By contrast, recent posted salaries in the local sample center on about $91k to $121k for salaried openings, while hourly-paid openings center on about $19 to $21 / hour.

Full September 2026 market report

Advertised pay

Across the 199 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $41,548 at the 25th percentile, $45,760 at the median and $54,340 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of October 16, 2026

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What our analysts see this month

Competitive market | next 3-6 months

This is a workable but selective market. Los Angeles metro unemployment was 4.8% in August 2026 and metro nonfarm employment was up 0.6111% year over year, so the broader local economy is still adding jobs. But the category itself is softer than the broader market: protective-services employment in California was down 1.5% year over year in September 2026 and active postings were down 17.4%, even as California postings across all occupations were up 2.6%. The easiest entries are on-site security, loss-prevention, and access-control roles, while sworn police and fire paths have openings but move through slower, more process-heavy pipelines.

Best positioned: Your best odds right now are as a candidate who already has a California guard card or comparable public-safety credentials, can work on-site, and is willing to run an immediate private-market search in parallel with longer public-agency applications.

Main caution: The biggest trap is assuming announced police hiring targets mean fast net growth; much of LAPD's planned 510-officer hiring is meant to replace resignations and retirements rather than rapidly expand headcount.

From the September 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 232 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. AUS: 57 open roles
2. Absolute Security International, Inc.: 12 open roles
3. Inter-Con Security: 10 open roles
4. GardaWorld Group: 7 open roles
5. Vallarta Supermarkets: 6 open roles
6. Adeedo: 5 open roles
7. Customized Guard Services: 3 open roles
8. Eaglespointsecurity: 3 open roles
9. Falck A/S: 3 open roles
10. K&I Executive Security Group: 3 open roles

Where the openings are

• Los Angeles: 69
• Long Beach: 9
• Irvine: 8
• Glendale: 8
• Burbank: 8
• Inglewood: 7
• Palmdale: 7
• Culver City: 5

Work arrangement

on-site 220 (100%), hybrid 1 (0%)

Where the demand is

Real opportunity is split between two different markets. In the last 90 days, the local sample showed more than 200 postings across more than 100 companies, with hiring fragmented rather than dominated by one employer. Retail accounts for about 25% of postings, while security and investigations plus security & safety add about 20%, which points to steady demand for contract security, store protection, access control, and incident-reporting work. Most of that private-market demand is junior and in-person: about 85% of sampled openings were entry-level and about 95% or more were on-site. Public-agency demand is more episodic but can offer better long-term pay and benefits. Los Angeles budgeted for 510 LAPD officer hires in 2026-27, mainly to offset expected resignations and retirements, and the city planned smaller recruit classes early in the fiscal year at about 25 recruits per class, potentially rising to as many as 50 later. City budget plans also included 120 firefighters, and Los Angeles County Fire signaled movement through a September promotional ceremony and a CERT instructor class for 47 department members. Separate reporting that LAPD staffing had fallen to about 8,500 officers by September 2026 helps explain why recruiting remains active even without clear net growth.

• Private security, access control, and loss prevention (high): This is the broadest near-term pool: retail is about 25% of sampled postings, security and investigations about 10%, and security & safety about 10%; the work is mostly on-site and heavily entry-level.
• Sworn law enforcement pipelines (moderate): The city has funding for 510 LAPD officer hires, but the plan is largely to replace attrition, and slow processing has already pushed applicants toward other departments.
• Fire-service hiring and advancement (moderate): Budget plans included 120 firefighters, while Los Angeles County Fire also signaled active promotion and training activity in late September.
• Top-end specialized or supervisory roles (limited): These roles can pay well, but they are relatively scarce because fewer than 5% of sampled openings were senior and less than 5% were lead-level.

Where to focus: If you need work in the next 90 days, focus first on licensed private security or loss-prevention roles and treat police or fire applications as longer-cycle parallel bets.

Roles worth searching next

• Safety coordinator / EHS technician: It uses the same incident reporting and emergency-response toolkit that appears often in local protective-services postings.
• Facilities or workplace operations coordinator: Access control, incident logging, and on-site coverage are already common requirements in the local protective-services market.
• Fraud or compliance investigator: The transition makes sense for candidates strongest in surveillance, report writing, and retail or investigations-related work.
• Emergency preparedness or training coordinator: Los Angeles County Fire's recent CERT instructor expansion is a reminder that preparedness and training work has a real local base.

What postings ask for

• California guard card (table_stakes | immediate): It is the most common named local credential in the posting sample and functions as a basic screening requirement for a meaningful share of entry roles. Who: Entry-level applicants and career switchers.
• CPR / First Aid / AED certification (table_stakes | immediate): Local postings frequently mention this certification, and the broader skill mix also regularly asks for first aid and CPR capability. Who: Anyone targeting customer-facing, patrol, event, or site-security roles.
• Incident reporting and report writing (table_stakes | immediate): Incident reporting and report writing are both among the most requested hard skills in local postings, so documentation quality directly affects employability. Who: All candidate types, especially career switchers who need proof of transferability.
• Surveillance and access control (differentiator | immediate): Both skills show up frequently in the local sample and map closely to the strongest near-term demand pockets in site security and retail protection. Who: Entry-level and mid-career applicants targeting private employers.
• Emergency response (premium | immediate): Emergency response is the single most requested hard skill in the local posting sample, appearing in about 40% of postings. Who: Candidates aiming for higher-responsibility posts or public-agency tracks.
• Baton permit or pepper spray certification (differentiator | near-term): These permits appear in local requirements more often than many other named credentials and can widen the set of employers willing to consider you. Who: Applicants targeting enforcement-adjacent or higher-control private security roles.

Questions about this market

What do Protective Services & Public Safety roles pay in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA?

Government wage data shows a wide spread. For the broader protective-service occupational family in Los Angeles, annual pay ranged from $37,850 at the 25th percentile to $85,960 at the 75th percentile in 2025, with a median of $45,960 and a mean of $67,510. The BLS also put the metro's mean hourly wage for protective service occupations at $32.46 in May 2025. By contrast, recent posted salaries in the local sample center on about $91k to $121k for salaried openings, while hourly-paid openings center on about $19 to $21 / hour. That gap usually means the posting sample is skewing toward sworn, specialized, or supervisory openings, while the occupation-wide wage tables still include lower-paid guard, loss-prevention, and entry public-safety roles. In short, Los Angeles has some very well-paid protective-services paths, but they are not the default outcome.

Where is demand for Protective Services & Public Safety roles in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA concentrated?

Real opportunity is split between two different markets. In the last 90 days, the local sample showed more than 200 postings across more than 100 companies, with hiring fragmented rather than dominated by one employer. Retail accounts for about 25% of postings, while security and investigations plus security & safety add about 20%, which points to steady demand for contract security, store protection, access control, and incident-reporting work. Most of that private-market demand is junior and in-person: about 85% of sampled openings were entry-level and about 95% or more were on-site. Public-agency demand is more episodic but can offer better long-term pay and benefits. Los Angeles budgeted for 510 LAPD officer hires in 2026-27, mainly to offset expected resignations and retirements, and the city planned smaller recruit classes early in the fiscal year at about 25 recruits per class, potentially rising to as many as 50 later. City budget plans also included 120 firefighters, and Los Angeles County Fire signaled movement through a September promotional ceremony and a CERT instructor class for 47 department members. Separate reporting that LAPD staffing had fallen to about 8,500 officers by September 2026 helps explain why recruiting remains active even without clear net growth.

Which employers are hiring the most Protective Services & Public Safety talent in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA?

Recent postings show the most activity from AUS (30 postings), Costco Wholesale Corp. (15 postings), Absolute Security International, Inc. (15 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Protective Services & Public Safety roles in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA be done remotely?

Of recent postings, 5% are remote and 5% hybrid, with 95% on-site. Use the Remote filter above to see only remote openings.

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