Mostly Resilient
Last Update: 5/19/2026
AI Resilience Score for Security Supervisors:
57.7%
Median Score
Meaningful human contribution
Measures the parts of the occupation that still require a human touch. This score averages data from up to four AI exposure datasets, focusing on the role’s resilience against automation.
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Long-term employer demand
Predicts the health of the job market for this role through 2034. Using Bureau of Labor Statistics data, it balances projected annual job openings (60%) with overall employment growth (40%).
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Sustained economic opportunity
Measures future earning potential and career flexibility. This score is a blend of total projected labor income (67%) and the role’s inherent ability to adapt to economic and technological shifts (33%).
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AI Resilience Report forFirst-Line Supervisors of Security Workers
$58,610 median salary•7,000 annual openings•SOC Code: 33-1091.00
First-Line Supervisors of Security Workers are somewhat more resilient to AI impacts than most occupations, according to our analysis of 5 sources.
This career holds up well because the core of the job — making judgment calls, managing people, handling tense situations, and de-escalating conflict — are things AI simply can't do on its own. AI tools are actually making supervisors *more* effective, helping them monitor large teams across multiple sites, filter out false alarms, and spot threats faster, so the role is evolving rather than disappearing.
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This career holds up well because the core of the job — making judgment calls, managing people, handling tense situations, and de-escalating conflict — are things AI simply can't do on its own. AI tools are actually making supervisors *more* effective, helping them monitor large teams across multiple sites, filter out false alarms, and spot threats faster, so the role is evolving rather than disappearing.
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How is AI changing Security Supervisors jobs?
Right now, AI is mostly augmenting the work of first-line security supervisors rather than replacing them. According to the Security Industry Association [1], AI-driven triage is filtering alarm volume before a human operator ever sees an event, behavioral analytics are surfacing patterns that manual review would miss entirely, and access control decisions are becoming contextually richer. In Security Magazine's 2025 Annual Guarding Report [2], one major firm explained how "Blackout" AI technology on its more than 140,000 cameras detects threats faster than the human eye, often in under a second, which speeds up the decisions supervisors make when dispatching officers.
Supervisors increasingly use AI dashboards, GPS-tagged patrols, and remote video monitoring to oversee guards spread across many sites — a shift the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics [3] reflects in its projection of 0% employment change for security guards from 2024 to 2034 despite about 162,300 annual openings.
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How fast is AI adoption growing for Security Supervisors?
Adoption is being pushed hard by a chronic labor problem. Industry analysts report that average annual turnover in security guarding runs 100–300%, with the sector hitting a 77.0% turnover rate in 2024 compared with 69.3% pre-pandemic, which makes AI monitoring tools attractive to cost-conscious employers. Fortune [4] notes that labor shortages are the primary force pushing firms toward automation and AI adoption, especially for jobs people don't want.
But Brookings [5] reminds us that capacity to adapt after job loss is not evenly distributed across the workforce — and legal, ethical, and privacy concerns around video and biometric AI still slow rollouts. The hopeful news: human supervisors still handle the soft skills, judgment calls, and de-escalation that AI can't, so this role is changing shape rather than disappearing.
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Career: First-Line Supervisors of Security Workers
They oversee security staff, ensuring they follow rules and keep places safe by monitoring activities and managing shifts.
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Employment & Wage Data
Median Wage
$58,610
Jobs (2024)
71,900
Growth (2024-34)
+2.7%
Annual Openings
7,000
Education
High school diploma or equivalent
Experience
Less than 5 years
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections 2024-2034
