Massachusetts · SOC 33-0000 · Annual, 2025
Protective service occupations in Massachusetts
Employment and average annual wage for SOC 33-0000 in Massachusetts, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.
In 2025, about 81,900 people in Massachusetts worked in protective service occupations (SOC 33-0000), with an average annual wage of $81,960.
Employment in protective service occupations in Massachusetts grew 9.1% from 2020 to 2025. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 81,900. Quarterly values, full occupation detail and projections to 2036 for Massachusetts are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 81,900Employment, 2025
- $81,960Mean annual wage
- 2.3%Share of Massachusetts jobs
- 0.94Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 72,700; 2005 72,800; 2006 73,100; 2007 74,200; 2008 75,100; 2009 74,300; 2010 74,600; 2011 74,500; 2012 75,000; 2013 76,100; 2014 77,600; 2015 78,100; 2016 79,300; 2017 77,000; 2018 77,600; 2019 77,700; 2020 75,100; 2021 76,800; 2022 79,100; 2023 79,400; 2024 81,400; 2025 81,900.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Mean annual wage | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 81,862 | $81,959 | 0.5% |
| 2024 | 81,445 | $78,293 | 2.5% |
| 2023 | 79,432 | $74,790 | 0.4% |
| 2022 | 79,089 | $73,541 | 3.0% |
| 2021 | 76,760 | $71,434 | 2.3% |
| 2020 | 75,060 | $70,178 | 3.4% |
| 2019 | 77,729 | $65,039 | 0.2% |
| 2018 | 77,576 | $62,098 | 0.7% |
| 2017 | 77,039 | $59,666 | 2.8% |
| 2016 | 79,284 | $56,466 | 1.5% |
The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.
Where these numbers come from
Reading these figures
The figures on this page come from one named vintage, stated below, and are annual values for all ownerships combined. Every occupation value is a DTG estimate: there is no published county or state census of occupations to report, so no value here is marked as published or estimated, and none carries a reliability score. Quarterly figures, county figures, detailed occupations and projected years are in the app.
How these figures are built
DTG’s industry employment fixes how many jobs there are in each industry in the state. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ national industry-occupation matrix says how each industry is staffed, and the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey says how many people work in each occupation in the area and what they earn. DTG makes the three agree, so occupation employment sums to the same totals as industry employment. Employment is the annual average; the mean annual wage is the year’s total occupation wages divided by that average employment. The construction is described in full on the occupation data page.
Notes
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Protective service occupations in Massachusetts, quarterly, at full depth
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