Tennessee · SOC 33-0000 · Annual, 2025
Protective service occupations in Tennessee
Employment and average annual wage for SOC 33-0000 in Tennessee, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.
In 2025, about 76,800 people in Tennessee worked in protective service occupations (SOC 33-0000), with an average annual wage of $60,070.
Employment in protective service occupations in Tennessee grew 8.5% from 2020 to 2025. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 76,800. Quarterly values, full occupation detail and projections to 2036 for Tennessee are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 76,800Employment, 2025
- $60,070Mean annual wage
- 2.4%Share of Tennessee jobs
- 0.98Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 61,700; 2005 62,700; 2006 64,500; 2007 65,200; 2008 66,400; 2009 65,100; 2010 65,500; 2011 65,200; 2012 65,600; 2013 65,900; 2014 66,300; 2015 67,100; 2016 68,100; 2017 69,600; 2018 71,900; 2019 72,600; 2020 70,800; 2021 71,000; 2022 72,700; 2023 75,400; 2024 76,400; 2025 76,800.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Mean annual wage | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 76,784 | $60,065 | 0.6% |
| 2024 | 76,354 | $57,060 | 1.3% |
| 2023 | 75,411 | $55,204 | 3.8% |
| 2022 | 72,688 | $52,033 | 2.4% |
| 2021 | 71,016 | $49,661 | 0.4% |
| 2020 | 70,757 | $46,996 | 2.6% |
| 2019 | 72,630 | $44,506 | 0.9% |
| 2018 | 71,946 | $43,171 | 3.4% |
| 2017 | 69,581 | $42,128 | 2.2% |
| 2016 | 68,081 | $40,461 | 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 Tennessee, quarterly, at full depth
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