SCDC offers various employment and promotional opportunities statewide:
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Open Recruiting StatewideNow Hiring Correctional Officers
Minimum Security Salary: $43,806 Goodman, Livesay, Manning, Palmer
Medium Security Salary: $48,806 Allendale, Camille Graham, Evans, Kershaw, Leath, MacDougall, Ridgeland, Trenton, Turbeville, Tyger River, Wateree River
Close Security Salary: $53,806 Broad River, Kirkland, Lee, Lieber, McCormick, Perry
You must be at least 18 years old and have a High School Diploma or GED to apply. |
Excellent Employee Benefits
Uniforms furnished (security & food service) |
The South Carolina Department of Corrections protects the citizens by confining offenders in controlled facilities and by providing rehabilitative, self-improvement opportunities to prepare inmates for their reintegration into society.
The employees of the South Carolina Department of Corrections will be seen as a progressive force that works together to ensure the safety of each other, to improve the lives and meet legitimate needs of the inmates, and prepare them for reentry into society
Open positions are released daily. These announcements are posted at all SCDC Facilities, local SC Department of Employment and Workforce offices, and online at SCDC Employment Opportunities.
Applications must be submitted online here. Applicants must meet both the state minimum and the applicable SCDC additional requirements for each vacant position as stated on the application.
**Applicants will be required to provide the following documents if selected for a position: valid driver’s license (or equivalent photo ID), birth certificate, social security card, and high school diploma or GED certificate.**
In addition to the State of SC Benefits, several optional benefits are available:
- Aflac Insurance (flyer (PDF), Aflacts (PDF), short-term disability (PDF), mental health support (PDF))
- Allstate Insurance ( health supplemental plans (PDF) )
- Colonial Life Insurance ( life, health supplemental, etc. (PDF) )
- Chubb Insurance ( supplemental life & long-term care (PDF) )
- Life Insurance Company of Alabama ( life, disability, etc. (PDF) )
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