Which pays more, Operations Manager or Security Officer?

The median advertised salary for each is in the table above, along with the 25th and 75th percentiles so you can see the spread rather than one number.

Which has more openings?

Both counts are live and computed at the same moment, so the comparison is like for like.

Postings are read from company career systems continuously; the age row shows how old the listings themselves are.

Side by side

Operations Manager vs Security Officer

Pay is effectively the same — the medians sit within 2.8% apart. Demand is comparable on both sides. Listings for Operations Manager move faster — median age 29 days against 48.

Comparison

Side by side

Measure	Operations Manager	Security Officer	Gap
Open postings	22,872	22,900	-28
Posted this week	1,421	1,819
Median salary	$88,000	$90,500	$-2.5k
25th percentile	$69.5k	$71.5k
75th percentile	$109k	$112k
Salary disclosed	7.1%	3.6%
Remote share	8.3%	8.8%	-0.5pp
Median age of posting	29d	48d
Open over 60 days	46.2%	37.5%
Visa sponsorship	16.5%	13.3%

Pay

Pay distribution

Operations Manager

$40k$152k

Security Officer

$41k$157k

Freshness

How old the listings are

Operations Manager

just posted29d median90d+

Security Officer

just posted48d median90d+

Demand

What each side asks for

Operations Manager — technologies

HubSpot

72.0%

Spark

65.8%

Python

59.6%

Terraform

53.4%

Azure

47.2%

41.0%

JavaScript

34.8%

Security Officer — technologies

Azure

72.0%

PostgreSQL

65.8%

Python

59.6%

Terraform

53.4%

Spark

47.2%

GCP

41.0%

SQL

34.8%

Operations Manager — employers

Brightline Retail

9.4%

Lakeshore Hospitality

8.7%

Rivergate Media

8.0%

Umbra Security

7.2%

Northwind Systems

6.5%

Quarry Analytics

5.8%

Beacon Robotics

5.1%

Security Officer — employers

Cobalt Financial

9.4%

Northwind Systems

8.7%

Solstice Biotech

8.0%

Halcyon Energy

7.2%

Fairmount Legal

6.5%

Pinewood Education

5.8%

Aperture Labs

5.1%

More comparisons

Other Operations & Admin comparisons

Both sides are counted the same way on the same day, so the gap is comparable even where the absolute numbers move. Salary figures use only postings that publish a range — the disclosure rate is in the table because a median over 20% of a cohort is a weaker number than one over 70%.