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Bailiffs earn $56,600 a year at the midpoint

Where you land matters more here than in most jobs — the top tenth earn more than 3.0 times the bottom tenth. The midpoint is $56,600.

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$56,600median a year · United States
$27.21an hour $61,660average 17,310people
Nine in ten people in this work earn between the two ends. The shaded part is the middle half — where most people are.
$43,72025th $56,600median $74,63075th
$32,14010th percentile $96,77090th percentile
$43,720a year at the 25th percentile, nearer a first job
$111,890best-paying state · Connecticut
$27,560lowest-paying state · North Dakota
+98%top state against the national median
  • Read the spread, not the middle. The median is the midpoint across everyone in the occupation, most of them years into the work. A beginner starts nearer the 10th to 25th percentile, which is why the spread is published alongside it.
  • What the figure counts. The figure counts base pay plus tips, commissions and production bonuses. It leaves out the self-employed, unpaid family workers, private household workers, and the value of benefits or profit sharing.
  • The annual figure is arithmetic. For hourly occupations the annual figure is the hourly rate times 2080 hours. It is a calculation, not observed earnings: part time is the norm in retail and food service.
  • Where you live moves it more than your resume does. National figures. A state or metro area can sit far from the national number, and that gap is usually larger than any difference a resume makes.
  • Not in these numbers. Growth and annual openings are not in this dataset. They come from the separate Employment Projections tables, where an opening is a modelled ten year average and not a posted vacancy.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, 2025. Retrieved through the BLS Public Data API on 2026-08-13. bls.gov/oes “BLS.gov cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from BLS.gov.”

State matters a lotThe same job pays $111,890 in Connecticut and $27,560 in North Dakota — a gap of $84,330 a year.

Bailiff earnings, from starting pay to the top 10%

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$56,597a year

Bailiff wages, state by state

The 41 states where the most people do this work, of 44 with a published figure: their medians range by 4.06 times. Figures are the 2025 survey.

State Median a year Where most start 10th to 90th Employed
Connecticut $111,890 $96,640 $96,640 — $117,410 40
Alaska $90,600 $36,120 $36,120 — $113,820 60
Massachusetts $86,730 $55,890 $55,890 — $105,580 930
Washington $78,290 $37,000 $37,000 — $100,570 180
New York $77,540 $56,400 $56,400 — $96,770 3,830
Nebraska $76,090 $47,310 $47,310 — $76,610 50
Nevada $71,230 $61,050 $61,050 — $86,910 210
Kansas $69,390 $58,390 $58,390 — $82,280 450
Colorado $63,320 $38,950 $38,950 — $89,770 70
Maine $62,800 $50,560 $50,560 — $64,730 110
Georgia $62,400 $26,220 $26,220 — $200,670 670
Virginia $62,290 $39,160 $39,160 — $79,850 320
Texas $60,300 $38,150 $38,150 — $80,650 590
Maryland $59,470 $45,750 $45,750 — $62,920 410
Florida $59,000 $37,380 $37,380 — $83,340 940
Oregon $57,140 $48,450 $48,450 — $71,280 80
North Carolina $56,100 $37,270 $37,270 — $67,360 250
Michigan $53,810 $37,000 $37,000 — $62,500 780
Iowa $52,100 $27,290 $27,290 — $70,450 60
Ohio $51,060 $39,570 $39,570 — $73,980 1,640
Idaho $50,350 $38,290 $38,290 — $74,320 110
Hawaii $48,940 $45,220 $45,220 — $64,400 50
Pennsylvania $47,600 $24,610 $24,610 — $55,240 610
Arizona $46,390 $39,020 $39,020 — $60,180 270
Illinois $46,390 $31,200 $31,200 — $76,840 960
Arkansas $45,090 $34,940 $34,940 — $61,780 140
Louisiana $44,040 $22,980 $22,980 — $71,370 90
Missouri $44,040 $31,780 $31,780 — $62,400 280
New Jersey $43,690 $36,600 $36,600 — $69,640 50
Indiana $43,000 $28,740 $28,740 — $60,440 510
Alabama $42,300 $33,050 $33,050 — $56,600 150
Oklahoma $42,000 $42,000 $42,000 — $52,000 180
New Hampshire $41,010 $37,200 $37,200 — $52,350 60
Wisconsin $39,080 $26,250 $26,250 — $69,670 250
Wyoming $38,360 $35,640 $35,640 — $69,660 50
Mississippi $38,200 $24,110 $24,110 — $52,790 180
West Virginia $36,250 $29,670 $29,670 — $41,690 160
Tennessee $35,990 $30,340 $30,340 — $49,220 100
South Carolina $34,280 $21,070 $21,070 — $61,720 270
Kentucky $30,760 $28,920 $28,920 — $44,340 760
North Dakota $27,560 $27,560 $27,560 — $55,480 170

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  • Screened persons entering courthouse using magnetometers, x-ray machines, and other devices to collect and retain unauthorized firearms and other contraband.
  • Escorted prisoners to and from courthouse and maintain custody of prisoners during court proceedings.
  • Maintained order in courtroom during trial and guard jury from outside contact.

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Number 447 of 788 by median pay

Better paid than 43% of the occupations in the survey.

  1. 445 Airfield Operations Specialists $56,850
  2. 446 Community and Social Service Specialists, All Other $56,730
  3. 447 Bailiffs $56,600
  4. 448 Farm Equipment Mechanics and Service Technicians $56,550
  5. 449 Model Makers, Wood $56,550

Adjacent work, and what it pays

Occupations in the same group of the federal classification — the usual next steps, or the ones beside this one.

Bailiffs$56,600
Detectives and Criminal Investigators$93,790+$37,190 Police and sheriff patrol officers$76,210+$19,610 Fish and Game Wardens$74,060+$17,460 Correctional Officers and Jailers$58,940+$2,340

What people often ask

What is a bailiff’s yearly income?

A bailiff makes a median of $56,600 a year (2025 survey). The middle half earn between $43,720 and $74,630.

What is a bailiff’s hourly pay rate?

The median pay rate is $27.21 an hour; the average is $61,660 a year.

What is the starting pay for a bailiff?

Starting pay is usually near the 25th percentile, $43,720 a year, and sometimes as low as the 10th, $32,140.

Which state pays bailiffs the most?

Connecticut, with a median of $111,890 a year.

How many people work as bailiffs?

About 17,310 in the United States — number 447 of 788 occupations by median pay.

Work that pays roughly the same

Median pay within $240 of what bailiffs earn — $56,600 a year — but not always the same spread.

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