Lifeguard

Across all employers in the Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN area, the median wage for Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers — about 1,540 people — is $30,320. Crc-Aquatics Lifeguards pays a median base salary of $27,144 for this role, 10% below that figure — about the 34th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Computed over the 196 of 251 people in this role paid at least $25,000in base salary. The rest are part-year or part-time records, whose actual pay isn’t comparable to a full-time annual wage.

Median total compensation for this role at Crc-Aquatics Lifeguards is $27,144, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.

Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.

Lifeguard is held in 2 City of Cincinnati departments. In Crc-Aquatics Lifeguards, the median of $27,144 ranks #1 of 2.

This role is reported in 19 jurisdictions. In City of Cincinnati, the median of $27,144 ranks #4 of 19. See Lifeguard across all of City of Cincinnati →