City of Las Vegas / Department of Public Safety - City Marshals / Corrections Officer
Job-title file
Supervise and maintain custody of incarcerated individuals, enforce facility rules, and keep the facility secure.
1 employee holds this title in Department of Public Safety - City Marshals. Median total compensation for the role is $112,670, below the department median of $147,231.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV area, the median wage for Correctional Officers and Jailers — about 2,270 people — is $81,680. Department of Public Safety - City Marshals pays a median base salary of $54,667 for this role, 33% below that figure — below the 10th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Correctional Officers and Jailers across every employer in the Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Department of Public Safety - City Marshals’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Correctional Officers and Jailers — about 380,500 people — is $58,940. Department of Public Safety - City Marshals’s median base salary is 7% below that national figure, about the 40th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV range relative to the national one.
Median total compensation for this role at Department of Public Safety - City Marshals is $104,921, 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.
Compare departments
Corrections Officer is held in 2 City of Las Vegas departments. In Department of Public Safety - City Marshals, the median of $112,670 ranks #2 of 2.
Median total compensation for the Corrections Officer role in other City of Las Vegasdepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 3 jurisdictions. In City of Las Vegas, the median of $147,522 ranks #1 of 3. See Corrections Officer across all of City of Las Vegas →
Median total compensation for comparable Corrections Officer roles in other jurisdictions. Titles are matched by normalized name across sources, not identical job classification, and pay is not cost-of-living adjusted. Each bar links to that jurisdiction’s page for the role.
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Record list
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Corrections Officer/Department of Public Safety - City Marshals
Source-specific fields
At Department of Public Safety - City Marshals, Eloy Lopez Sumano serves as a Corrections Officer within Poa. Their 2025 pay totaled $112,670.