- Of the 92,910 employed probation officers and correctional treatment specialists in 2009, more than 96 percent of them worked for state governments, where the annual mean salary was $51,490, or local governments, where the annual mean salary was $50,600.
- The states with the highest mean annual salaries were California, at $77,020; New Jersey, at $62,540; Minnesota, at $61,430; New York at $60,680; and Illinois, at $59,000. In contrast, the annual mean salary in Idaho was $39,440; in Vermont was $43,080; and in Arizona was $47,250. The metropolitan areas with the highest mean salaries were Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, Minnesota-Wisconsin, at $64,310; Chicago-Naperville-Joliet, Illinois, at $61,730; and Camden, New Jersey, at $61,690.
- As of January 2011, the website Payscale reports salary ranges for current job listings for probation officers and correctional treatment specialists by years of experience as: less than one year, $28,834 to $37,671: one to four years, $30,029 to $40,413; five to nine years, $34,679 to $49,136; 10 to 19 years, $37,061 to $54,602, and 20 years or more, $43,420 to $79,174.
- Probation officers are called community supervision officers in some states. Although probation officers and parole officers have many of the same job responsibilities, the difference is that parole officers supervise offenders released from prison, while probation officers work with people given probation instead of being sent to prison.
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