Security, Dispatch & Protection
A family of city jobs
In FY2025, San Francisco paid $145.0M to 1,290 employees in security, dispatch & protection jobs, a median of $125,163 each, 2.1% of the city payroll. Source: SF Controller employee compensation (open data).
Exact percentiles over the 1,238 people whose main job that year was in this family, total compensation included. A low median means part-time and partial-year staff, not a low hourly rate. Compare every kind of work →
$78.0M in FY2013 → $145.0M in FY2025, with 1,105 → 1,290 people. Nominal dollars, not inflation-adjusted.
+ 4 smaller departments
Compensation for the security, dispatch & protection family, FY2013–FY2025, aggregated from the Controller’s employee-compensation data. Employee Compensation ↗
No dollar aggregate in this file covers fewer than 5 employees. Groups under 5 people are pooled into visible 'Other roles' rows per department; pools that would themselves stay under the threshold are folded into the department total with no row. Departments under the threshold (the Law Library in practice, 2-3 people) are included in citywide totals but not listed.