SALARY · CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS AND JAILERS · PENNSYLVANIA

Correctional Officers and Jailers salary in Pennsylvania

Averages can hide a lot. Medians hide less. That is why this page leads with the median for correctional officers and jailers in Pennsylvania: $63,460 a year. The mean is listed too, so you can see when a small group of high earners pulls the average upward.

MEDIAN ANNUAL SALARY

$63,460

$31 per hour at the median · That is $4,520 (7.7 percent) above the national median of $58,940 for this occupation.

$64,650Mean annual salary
$31Mean hourly wage
$15,560People employed in this job in Pennsylvania

Salary range

25th: $50,500Median: $63,46075th: $79,390
MeasureAnnual
25th percentile$50,500
Median (50th percentile)$63,460
75th percentile$79,390
Mean$64,650

The middle half of workers earned from $50,500 to $79,390 a year. Do not read the percentile range as good versus bad jobs. It mostly reflects experience, hours, employer type and local demand. A new starter near the 25th percentile and a veteran near the 75th can both be fairly paid for their stage.

What stays in your pocket on the median salary

ESTIMATED TAKE-HOME PAY

$51,222 a year
$4,268 a month
Federal tax $5,435 · FICA $4,855 · State tax $1,948

Caveat: the $0 deduction point for Pennsylvania was corroborated from a secondary host of the 2025 booklet, not from a pa.gov page.

Pennsylvania local earned income tax and the Philadelphia wage tax are separate and are not in this figure.

Read this before you use the take-home figure. It is a single-filer estimate using the 2026 standard deduction. It leaves out credits, other deductions, local taxes, and retirement or health deductions. Your actual paycheck can differ, and for states without a verified 2026 table in this build, state tax is still to be added once its table is verified.

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