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Salary by Country
Security Guards Salary by Country
The US median for security guards is $38,020. Below, the PPP-adjusted equivalent across 13 markets, modelled from US BLS data with OECD wage ratios and live exchange rates.
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What the security guards salary does not tell you
Salary measures what the market pays security guards today. It says nothing about how durable that pay is as AI reshapes the work. Security Guards currently sit at 49/100 on the AI exposure scale, in the moderate exposure band. A well-paid role can still be highly exposed: the question is which layer of the work you occupy.
The country differences below are wage-level effects, not exposure differences. AI compresses the same routine layer of security guards work in every market. To see where your own position sits and what shifts it, run the free structural reading or model the dimensions in the simulator.
13 markets
Security Guards salary across countries
Median annual pay and the typical 10th-to-90th-percentile range, shown in each market's local currency.
| Country | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|
| United States (source) | $38,020 | $30,210 to $58,840 |
| United Kingdom | £19,700 | £15,600 to £30,500 |
| Canada | $39,600 | $31,500 to $61,300 |
| Australia | $40,500 | $32,200 to $62,700 |
| Ireland | €25,900 | €20,600 to €40,100 |
| New Zealand | $38,400 | $30,500 to $59,400 |
| Germany | 24.600 € | 19.600 € to 38.100 € |
| France | 22 000 € | 17 500 € to 34 100 € |
| Netherlands | € 29.200 | € 23.200 to € 45.100 |
| Singapore | $39,700 | $31,500 to $61,400 |
| Japan | ￥3,594,900 | ￥2,856,500 to ￥5,563,600 |
| South Africa | R 213,600 | R 169,800 to R 330,600 |
| India | ₹6,54,500 | ₹5,20,100 to ₹10,12,900 |
US figures are BLS OEWS survey data. All other countries are PPP-adjusted estimates, derived from the US median via OECD average-wage ratios and live exchange rates. They indicate purchasing-power-style equivalents, not surveyed local salaries.
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