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Security Guards

Prescott Valley-Prescott, AZ metropolitan area. Estimated employment 370.

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

Where you sit in the distribution

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$37,030 · 50th
$32,11010th
$33,65025th
$37,03050th
$41,91075th
$46,24090th

That is the medianhalf of security guards in Prescott Valley earn more.

Table 1 — Adjusted

$37,030 in Prescott Valley buys what $37,700 buys across the country as a whole.

Prescott Valley's regional price parity is 98.3 — 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 Arizona

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

Metro areaMedianAdjustedRPPvs. Prescott Valley
Phoenix$38,290$37,100103.3−1.7%
Flagstaff$38,200$38,100100.3+1.0%
Prescott Valley This page$37,030$37,70098.3
Sierra Vista$36,410$40,80089.2+8.3%
Tucson$36,250$37,40096.9−0.7%
Yuma$36,050$38,90092.7+3.2%
Lake Havasu City$35,860$38,10094.1+1.1%

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

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.
Employment
370 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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