First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers · SOC 33-1011

First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers Salary in the Houston Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX metro area

Figures describe the Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not Houston city limits.

Median annual wage$62,590
Median hourly wage$30.09

First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers in the Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX metro area earned a median of $62,590 per year ($30.09 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $59,890 at the 10th percentile to $95,590 at the 90th. BLS estimates 520 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers in the Houston metro area earn more than $62,590 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $59,890 and $70,250.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$59,890$59,890$62,590$70,250$95,590
Hourly$28.80$28.80$30.09$33.77$45.96

A percentile is a cut point: 25% of workers in this occupation and area earn less than the 25th-percentile wage. The median is the 50th percentile — half earn less, half earn more.

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How this area compares

  • Houston metro areathis metro area
    $62,590 median for Houston metro area; middle half earns $59,890 to $70,250
  • Texasstate (TX)
    $62,590 median for Texas; middle half earns $59,890 to $70,250
  • $77,970 median for United States; middle half earns $59,890 to $103,320

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

The median here is about the same vs Texas overall and −20% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$39,610$71,420$103,230$135,040Fort Smith, AR-OK — $39,610Gulfport-Biloxi, MS — $48,080Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR — $50,580Jefferson City, MO — $50,710Springfield, MO — $50,710New Orleans-Metairie, LA — $53,520Texarkana, TX-AR — $53,620Panama City-Panama City Beach, FL — $53,830Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL — $54,410Albany, GA — $54,590Port St. Lucie, FL — $54,600Gainesville, FL — $54,660Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL — $55,370Tallahassee, FL — $55,370Knoxville, TN — $55,920Beckley, WV — $57,590Fayetteville, NC — $57,910Lynchburg, VA — $58,620Charleston-North Charleston, SC — $58,720Macon-Bibb County, GA — $58,810Savannah, GA — $58,810Valdosta, GA — $58,810Tulsa, OK — $59,400Terre Haute, IN — $59,730Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL — $59,860Abilene, TX — $59,890Amarillo, TX — $59,890Killeen-Temple, TX — $59,890McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX — $59,890Waco, TX — $59,890Wichita Falls, TX — $59,890Oklahoma City, OK — $60,030College Station-Bryan, TX — $60,490Staunton-Stuarts Draft, VA — $61,050Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC — $61,530Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $61,580Wildwood-The Villages, FL — $61,860Baton Rouge, LA — $62,100Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX — $62,590El Paso, TX — $62,590Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $62,590Lubbock, TX — $62,590Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC — $62,780Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR — $63,210Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ — $63,230Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN — $63,580Charlottesville, VA — $63,600Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA — $64,740Chattanooga, TN-GA — $64,980Cedar Rapids, IA — $65,200Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $66,860Richmond, VA — $67,440Lexington-Fayette, KY — $67,530Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN — $67,840Albuquerque, NM — $68,380Wilmington, NC — $68,440Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $69,470Kansas City, MO-KS — $69,780San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $70,250Portland-South Portland, ME — $70,430Raleigh-Cary, NC — $71,950Yuma, AZ — $72,340Jackson, MS — $72,730Las Cruces, NM — $72,880Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $74,110Prescott Valley-Prescott, AZ — $74,510Tucson, AZ — $74,840Wichita, KS — $75,150Salisbury, MD — $75,290Memphis, TN-MS-AR — $75,480Greensboro-High Point, NC — $75,790Fort Wayne, IN — $76,420Spartanburg, SC — $77,110Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $77,190Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $77,310Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $77,550Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV — $77,950Topeka, KS — $78,500Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $79,150Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI — $79,330Boise City, ID — $79,770Syracuse, NY — $79,770Cleveland, OH — $79,850Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL — $80,010Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $80,260Jacksonville, FL — $81,230Peoria, IL — $81,330Columbus, OH — $81,740Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY — $82,730St. Louis, MO-IL — $83,990Montgomery, AL — $84,270Yakima, WA — $84,640Ann Arbor, MI — $85,300Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $85,300Columbia, SC — $85,820Birmingham, AL — $86,350Lincoln, NE — $86,530Pittsburgh, PA — $86,610Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $86,690Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $86,770Duluth, MN-WI — $87,010Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA — $90,370Omaha, NE-IA — $90,850Alexandria, LA — $91,890Fargo, ND-MN — $92,860Huntsville, AL — $93,080Glens Falls, NY — $93,350Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $93,600Utica-Rome, NY — $93,600Rochester, MN — $94,040Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY — $94,950Ogden, UT — $96,290Kennewick-Richland, WA — $96,510Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA — $97,090Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $98,300Rochester, NY — $98,580Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA — $98,870Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $99,510Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX — $99,540Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $100,070Oshkosh-Neenah, WI — $100,320Madison, WI — $100,420Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $100,740Eau Claire, WI — $101,550Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA — $102,110North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL — $102,770Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA — $104,610Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $105,450Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $105,550Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $105,930Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL — $110,390Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $110,510Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $115,130Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV — $115,210Vineland, NJ — $117,450New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $121,600Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $127,390San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $131,630Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $131,780Fresno, CA — $131,790San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA — $132,490Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA — $135,040

Each dot is one metro area with a published median — hover any dot for the name and figure. Metros without published estimates are not drawn.

The Houston metro area has the 101st-highest published median for this occupation among the 142 metro areas where BLS publishes it. Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Other metro areas in Texas

Metro areas in the same state with published May 2025 medians for first-line supervisors of correctional officers, highest first. Areas without published estimates are not listed.

  • Houston metro areathis page
    $62,590 median for Houston metro area; middle half earns $59,890 to $70,250
  • $99,540 median for Austin metro area; middle half earns $70,250 to $101,450
  • $77,550 median for Dallas metro area; middle half earns $70,250 to $95,890
  • $70,250 median for San Antonio metro area; middle half earns $59,890 to $94,660
  • $62,590 median for Beaumont metro area; middle half earns $59,890 to $82,850
  • $62,590 median for El Paso metro area; middle half earns $59,890 to $93,640
  • $62,590 median for Lubbock metro area; middle half earns $59,890 to $65,540

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

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About this estimate

These figures are survey estimates from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program — modeled from employer reports collected over three years and benchmarked to May 2025. They describe what employers in this area currently pay across all industries, not what any individual worker will be offered.

Employment counts wage-and-salary jobs in the occupation (self-employed workers are excluded). Estimates carry sampling error; percentile wages are rounded by BLS. Some values are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality or quality — suppressed values appear here as “not published”, never as zero. Read the full methodology.

About this data. Estimates are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 release, retrieved from bls.gov/oes/tables.htm on July 24, 2026. OEWS estimates describe metropolitan/nonmetropolitan areas and states — not city limits — and are not designed for year-over-year comparisons. See BLS methodology, our plain-English methodology, and sources. CitySalaryData is independent and not affiliated with BLS.