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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 average annual correctional officer salary is $43,550, which is equivalent to a mean hourly wage of $20.94. The bottom ten percent of correctional officers earn $27,000 or less on average, the top ten percent of correctional officers bring home $69,610 or more each year.