Greene County Career Center Criminal Justice (Certificate): Tuition, Graduate Salary, and Debt
- Certificate in Criminal Justice and Corrections
- Public school
- Xenia, OH
- About 28 graduates a year
College Scorecard June 2026 release · BLS wages May 2025
The short answer
Greene County Career Center criminal justice graduates earn about what criminal justice graduates earn nationally, $46,623 in their first year. Where this program stands out is debt. The typical graduate leaves with $8,919 in federal loans, less than at 78% of criminal justice programs in the country. Strong value, but not one of the highest-paying criminal justice programs in Ohio.
How it compares
Each figure is the median for graduates of the program. The Ohio and national columns are the medians across all criminal justice certificate programs that report the figure.
Five years out, Greene County Career Center graduates earn about the national figure but about $9,526 less than the Ohio median.
Debt and first-year pay at every Ohio criminal justice program
Programs in the upper left give graduates higher pay for less debt. Dashed lines mark the Ohio medians.
Hover over or tap a dot to see the school. Only programs that report both earnings and debt are shown.
What graduates earn over time
Pay rises about 15% between the first and fifth year.
Year 1 and year 5 figures come from different graduating classes, so the growth rate is an estimate.
Paying back the loans
On a standard 10-year plan, the median debt means a payment of about $95 a month, or 2.4% of a graduate's typical monthly pay in the first year.
Where graduates work, and what the pay is worth
100% of graduates (47 of 47) were working in Ohio one year after graduating. Prices in the Dayton area are about 7% below the national average, so a $46,623 salary here buys what about $50,298 buys in a typical US city.
Careers this field leads to
These are the jobs that the federal crosswalk from fields of study to occupations links to criminal justice, largest first. Pay is the median across all experience levels.
Security Guards
$35,770Median pay in Ohio. 34,450 people work in this job in Ohio. Nationally, jobs are projected to grow 1% from 2025 to 2035, with about 156,000 openings a year. Typical education to start: high school diploma or equivalent.
Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers
$77,020Median pay in Ohio. 23,430 people work in this job in Ohio. Nationally, jobs are projected to grow 4% from 2025 to 2035, with about 51,500 openings a year. Typical education to start: high school diploma or equivalent.
Compliance Officers
$75,030Median pay in Ohio. 11,240 people work in this job in Ohio. Nationally, jobs are projected to grow 4% from 2025 to 2035, with about 32,700 openings a year. Typical education to start: bachelor's degree.
Child, Family, and School Social Workers
$51,520Median pay in Ohio. 16,050 people work in this job in Ohio. Nationally, jobs are projected to grow 4% from 2025 to 2035, with about 33,900 openings a year. Typical education to start: bachelor's degree.
About Greene County Career Center
Criminal Justice is the only certificate program at Greene County Career Center that reports first-year earnings.
Other criminal justice certificate programs near Xenia
Common questions
The median graduate earns $46,623 one year after graduating and $53,670 five years after. The median across criminal justice certificate programs in Ohio is $46,623.
The median federal loan balance is $8,919, which ranks 4th lowest of 6 criminal justice certificate programs in Ohio. That works out to about $95 a month over 10 years.
On the numbers, yes for most students. Debt equals 19% of first-year earnings, against a national median of 26%. If the highest possible early salary is the main goal, several Ohio programs report higher pay.
Most do. 100% (47 of 47) were working in Ohio one year after graduating.
About this data
- Earnings and debt only include students who received federal financial aid (grants or loans).
- Earnings only count graduates who were working and not enrolled in more school. Graduates who went straight to further study are not included.
- Debt only includes federal loans. Private loans and credit cards are not counted.
- Some schools with several campuses report one combined figure for all of them. We count each of those schools once, and leave them out of Ohio comparisons when their main campus is in another state.
- Scorecard figures describe graduating classes from several years ago. BLS wages are from May 2025.
- School-level numbers like tuition, admission rate, and graduation rate are for the whole school, not the criminal justice program.
Sources
- U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard, field of study and institution files, June 2026 release
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections 2025 to 2035
- Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024
- NCES, CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 crosswalk, and IPEDS institution directory, 2024