2026 Edition · An annual reference on what work pays

Security Guards

Hinesville, GA metropolitan area. Estimated employment 120.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 33-9032
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

Where you sit in the distribution

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$48,780 · 50th
$30,96010th
$41,72025th
$48,78050th
$56,62075th
$72,92090th

That is the medianhalf of security guards in Hinesville earn more.

Table 1 — Adjusted

$48,780 in Hinesville buys what $51,900 buys across the country as a whole.

Hinesville's regional price parity is 93.9 — below the national average, so a dollar here goes further than the nominal figure suggests. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.

Table 2 — Nearby metros

The same job, elsewhere in Georgia

Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.

Metro areaMedianAdjustedRPPvs. Hinesville
Hinesville This page$48,780$51,90093.9
Dalton$37,820$42,10089.8−18.9%
Rome$36,430$40,40090.2−22.2%
Gainesville$35,360$36,50096.8−29.6%
Atlanta$35,150$35,100100.1−32.4%
Savannah$34,810$36,60095.2−29.6%
Warner Robins$34,530$36,80093.8−29.1%
Macon$33,940$38,30088.5−26.2%

Price parity and difference against Hinesville are in the full table on wider screens.

Fig. 2 — Five-year trend

Nominal against real

The same median, once as published and once restated in 2025 dollars.

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Nominal, as published Real, in 2025 dollars US$ thousands

Published pay rose 20.1% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it is roughly flat — security guards in Hinesville earn about what they earned in 2021. The two lines meet at the right edge by construction, since 2025 is the base year.

Sources

How this page was made

Wage data
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release. Public domain.
Price parity
Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024.
Inflation
Real figures deflate by CPI-U annual averages (BLS, all items, US city average).
Employment
120 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 33-9032, Security Guards. Mapped to our taxonomy as security-guards.

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