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Prisoners lucky enough to get one of the prized saddle-making jobs can earn the minimum hourly wage of $5.25 while many of their 1,500 peers doing other jobs at the Buena Vista Correctional Facility make about 60 cents a day.
The highest paying states for correctional officers and jailers (ranked by average annual salary) are listed in Table 1. The entry level salary (as measured by the salary of the lowest 10% paid earners) and the number of employment of correctional officers and jailers in those states are also shown in the table. As shown in the table, with an annual salary of $75,250, California is the highest paying state for correctional officers and jailers. It is followed by New Jersey (average annual salary $73,240).