Income Percentiles by Occupation and Education Level

Law enforcement workers, nec

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Income Percentile Results

Total Income of $55,000 ranks between the 77.1th and 84.7th percentiles for all education levels. These results were estimated off of 156,691 Law enforcement workers, nec.

50th Percentile (Median) Income for any Education Level: $31,728
75th Percentile: $52,244
95th Percentile: $103,340
99th Percentile: $162,040

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Income Percentile Stats

  • To be in the top 1% for this age range, your household would need an income of $162,040 per year. This would include salary, investments, and any business income.
  • To be in the top 5% for this age range, your household would need an income of $103,340 per year. This would include salary, investments, and any business income.

Income of Law enforcement workers, nec by Highest Education Level

Total Income of $55,000 ranks for education levels:
  • Compared to Doctoral degree holders this ranks between the 51th and 58.9th percentiles.
  • Compared to Professional degree beyond a Bachelor's degree holders this ranks between the 45th and 49.3th percentiles.
  • Compared to Master's degree holders this ranks between the 51.5th and 60th percentiles.
  • Compared to Bachelor's degree holders this ranks between the 56.2th and 71.5th percentiles.
  • Compared to HS Diploma / GED degree holders this ranks between the 82.4th and 89.6th percentiles.

Income Percentile Distribution by Education Level

Highest Level of Education for Law enforcement workers, nec:
  • Other (N/A or Less than HS): 12.7%
  • HS Diploma / GED: 24.3%
  • Associates Degree and Some College: 41.2%
  • Bachelors Degree: 17.8%
  • Masters Degree: 3.5%
  • Professional Degree beyond a Bachelors: 0.3%
  • Doctoral Degree (PHd) : 0.1%

Most Common Bachelors Degree Majors

  • For Criminal Justice and Fire Protection undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 56.9th and 73.2th percentiles.
  • For Business undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 59.8th and 67th percentiles.
  • For Social Sciences undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 51.9th and 70.7th percentiles.
  • For Biology and Life Sciences undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 50.5th and 63.9th percentiles.
  • For Environment and Natural Resources undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 49.2th and 76.3th percentiles.
  • For Communications undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 70.5th and 83.6th percentiles.
  • For Fine Arts undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 60.2th and 72.2th percentiles.
  • For Education Administration and Teaching undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 56.8th and 67.4th percentiles.
  • For Physical Fitness, Parks, Recreation, and Leisure undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 41.1th and 70.6th percentiles.
  • For Psychology undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 45.2th and 68.6th percentiles.
Note: The source data only records undergraduate degree majors, even if a person continues to study.

Treemap of Undergraduate Majors

Methodology and Assumptions

This data was sourced from the person-level data recorded by the American Communities Survey. The version of the survey used was the most recent 5 year revision for data recorded from 2017-2022. These results represent 156,691 Law enforcement workers, nec. The occupation code that was used to generate these results e was 3950 to read more about the occupation codes that the ACS and Census use. These results were generated in R using raw data from the ACS and precalculated in a batch. This data includes all individual income for the survey respondent, so some of the people may have a wage job as well as other income sources. I did not limit to wage income, because many occupations have high portions of entrepreneurs (CEOs, doctors, tradespeople).

Exclusions and Filters Applied:
  • Filtered for people who reported working at least 30 hours a week.
  • High School Graduates and GED graduates were original 2 separate categories that I combined.
  • Anything below High School Graduates is combined into a separate category. I did not include these on the page for space reason but I can.
  • The data has data for associate degree holders and some college and these values are mostly in between the high school and bachelors samples. There doesn't seem to be a significant difference between some college and an associates degree.
  • All ages are included and not separated. I did some initial testing and there is a difference if the data is split out by age, but I wasn't able to consolidate the data into a way that would make it fast to interact with and avoid being too complicated.
  • There may be some confusion around a masters degree vs a professional degree beyond a masters. This was a distinction made in the original raw data that I decided to keep. Because the data is collected by polling people individually, some of the respondents may have mixed up the difference depending on how they phrased their response.
    • Masters Degree : MBA, Masters in Something
    • Professional Degree beyond a Bachelors Degree: Law Degree, Medical School, generally these degrees are credentials for specific careers.
    • Doctoral Degree: PHd