Are Campus Public Safety Wages Keeping Up with Inflation? Take Our Survey

Please take our Campus Safety 2025 Salary and Benefits Benchmark Survey, which also covers staffing levels, officer incentives, job satisfaction and more.
Published: July 25, 2025

A lot has changed since Campus Safety conducted a salary and benefits survey of our readers seven years ago. It was 2018, and the U.S. rate of inflation was 2.4%, which pales in comparison to the 7% and 6.5% inflation rates of 2021 and 2022, respectively.

So, have the salaries and wages of school, university and hospital public safety executives, police chiefs, security directors, police officers, nonsworn security officers, emergency managers and other public safety department personnel kept pace? Campus security and law enforcement executives want to know and have asked us to conduct this survey again.

To that end, we are asking hospital, college, and K-12 campus protection professionals to take the 2025 Campus Safety Salary and Benefits Benchmark Survey.

TAKE THE SURVEY

In addition to pay rates, the survey also covers department staffing levels, job satisfaction, minority and gender representation, officer incentives and more, but we need your help.

Why Take the Survey?

Participating in our Salary and Benefits Benchmark Survey will:

  • Help healthcare and educational institutions address the needs of their public safety teams
  • Contribute to a valuable benchmark for facilities across North America
  • Ensure your own department has robust data to evaluate trends and standards.

The survey will take about five minutes to complete. Your answers and identity, as well as that of your campus, will remain confidential and will only be used in tabulation with answers from other respondents. The results of this survey will appear on CampusSafetyMagazine.com.

We also encourage you to pass along this survey link to your peers at other institutions, campuses and districts so they can participate. The more campus protection pros we get to take the survey, the better and more helpful the data!

Make Your Voice Count. Take the 2025 Campus Safety Salary and Benefits Benchmark Survey Today!

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