The campus security officer who becomes the standard
$78,910top of the range in District of Columbia · middle $38,020 / yr
AI augments this role
Campus Security Officers in the United States earn a median of $38,020 a year. Pay starts near $30,210. Pay reaches $78,910 at the top of the range in Washington D.C., the best-paying location for this work among those with at least 500 people in the job.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (Security Guards, SOC 33-9032). Last checked 9 September 2026.
Entry level
$30,210
Top of the range · District of Columbia
$78,910
Education
High school diploma
Wages — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (Security Guards). Top of the range is the highest state-level figure among states with at least 500 people in the job. AI-impact rating is PayCrunch's editorial assessment. Updated September 2026.
🆕 New & Trending AI Tools for Campus Security OfficerReviewed September 2026
We track new AI-tool launches every week and refresh this list — here’s what’s gaining traction for Campus Security Officer work right now.
VerkadaNEWPaid / see site
Cloud camera platform with AI analytics for people, vehicles, and unusual activity on campus.
How a Campus Security Officer uses it: review a clip or search an incident window from the camera system — not a consumer chatbot
NotebookLMNEWFree / $7.99 mo
Google tool that answers questions grounded only in the documents you give it — with citations.
How a Campus Security Officer uses it: load your SOP, Clery notes, or emergency plan and ask procedure questions that stay on those documents
ChatGPTFree / $20 mo
AI assistant for de-identified incident write-ups, post orders, and cert study.
How a Campus Security Officer uses it: draft a post order or quiz ASIS material from de-identified facts — never paste names, video, or case files into an open tool
Microsoft CopilotFree / $30 mo
AI built into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams.
How a Campus Security Officer uses it: turn shift notes into a clean after-action or staffing sheet inside the campus Microsoft tenant
ClaudeFree / $20 mo
AI assistant known for careful writing and long-document analysis.
How a Campus Security Officer uses it: structure a long incident timeline from messy notes without inventing facts
PerplexityFree / $20 mo
AI search engine that answers with live, cited web sources.
How a Campus Security Officer uses it: pull current Clery or state-security guidance with sources before you brief leadership
Google GeminiFree / $20 mo
Google's AI assistant, built into Gmail, Docs, and Search.
How a Campus Security Officer uses it: draft and reply inside Google Workspace and research without leaving the page
A propped door after the library closes
Andre is halfway across the residence quad when the radio names a door that should have locked an hour ago. A student worker left it on a brick so a friend could come back from the dining hall. Andre clears the brick, checks the stairwell, walks the floor with the resident assistant who met him there, and writes the short report the supervisor will read at shift change. On the way back he stops a golf cart at the loading dock because a vendor badge does not match the name on the night list. He calls the facilities lead, waits while the name is confirmed, and logs the time. Nobody is arrested. The building is secured, the call is closed, and the next stop is a parking lot where a student wants an escort to a lab that stays open late.
That loop is the ordinary day of campus safety: foot and vehicle patrol, doors and badges, alarms, escorts, event gates, and the radio. The people on the other end are students, resident assistants, facilities, a dispatcher, and sometimes city police or emergency medical crews when a call leaves the post's authority. Decisions are practical. A noise complaint in a hall may belong to residence life. A person who cannot be woken belongs on a medical call. A bag left in a lobby gets a report and a supervisor, not a guess. Cameras in a dispatch room help an officer see a door before walking to it. The work is presence, access, and a clean handoff, shift after shift, including the nights and the weekends when the rest of the campus staff has gone home.
If you are reading a posting for this kind of work, picture that loop before you picture a title. Some posts are proprietary security: the college's own guard force, or a contract company the college hired. Some posts are sworn campus police, with a peace-officer credential and an agency behind the badge. The uniform can look similar from across the quad. The authority, the training, and the pay scale do not have to match. Ask which kind of post the job actually is before you accept a start date, and read the answer against the credential the posting requires.
Guard registration, or a peace-officer credential
Security-guard registration is common for the unsworn post. The state agency that registers guards, sometimes inside a licensing department and sometimes beside the state police, is the body that issues the card. The card proves you met that state's rules to work as a guard: identity, a background check the agency runs, and whatever training that state requires before you stand a post. Rules differ by state, so the posting and the state agency are the documents to read, not a story from a job in another state. A contract company may also run its own orientation on the college's radios, doors, and report forms. That company class sits on top of the registration. It does not replace it.
A sworn campus police role needs a peace-officer credential. The state body that certifies peace officers, or the federal authority when the campus force is federal, grants that credential after its academy and the field training the agency adds. The campus department then teaches its own geography: which buildings are residence halls, how student-conduct cases are handed to the dean, how the radio net talks to the city. Those two preparations are different products. Registration lets you work a guard post. A peace-officer credential is what a sworn officer carries. If a recruiter blurs the two, ask them to name the credential in writing and to name who grants it.
Preparation for the guard post is the state's registration process plus the employer's own training on the campus. Preparation for the sworn post is the peace-officer academy and the agency's field training. Either way, show up able to write a clear report, use a radio without stepping on other traffic, and walk a long shift. A driver's licence is often required because the patrol includes a vehicle. First aid and a campus-specific emergency role may be part of the employer's class. None of that invents police powers for a guard post. On a proprietary or college security post, the useful description of authority is the one in the post orders: access, patrol, observe, report, and call sworn police when the incident needs an arrest authority the post does not give you.
Ask which post the uniform is
Before you accept, ask whether the job is a security-guard post with state registration or a sworn campus police post with a peace-officer credential. The dollars on this page follow the guard series.
How a campus safety office fills a shift
Colleges hire through a public safety office, a human-resources posting, or a contract company that staffs the campus. The application asks for work history, the guard card if you already hold one, a driving record, and references who have seen you on a post. The interview is usually a supervisor and sometimes a lead officer. They want to hear how you handled a tense conversation without turning it into a contest, how you wrote down what you saw, and whether you can work the nights the schedule actually needs. A campus tour during the process is a good sign. You should be able to talk about residence halls, a library, a stadium gate, and a medical call as different problems.
Bring the registration if your state already issued it, or a clear note about where you are in that process. If the job is sworn, bring the peace-officer credential or say plainly that you would enter through the agency's academy. Hiding that gap wastes everyone's time. Ask about field training: who rides with you, how long the coach stays, and what a finished trainee can do alone. Ask who you call when a student crisis is a counseling matter rather than a security matter. Campuses that answer those points clearly are easier to join than campuses that hand you a radio and a map on night one.
Contract posts and college-employed posts feel different once you are hired. A contract officer may wear the company's patch and follow the college's post orders. A college employee may have a closer tie to student affairs and a different benefits packet. Pay can differ for the same foot patrol. Read the employer of record on the offer, not only the campus name on the building. A sworn hire is a different process again: a background investigation, an academy date, and a probationary period inside the police agency. If you wanted the guard post and they are recruiting you into an academy, or the reverse, stop and reread the credential. The job you think you accepted should be the job named on the paper.
Officer, shift lead, then a campus supervisor
The first seat is the officer on a shift: a zone of buildings, a radio, a stack of calls, and reports that close before you go home. You learn the campus by walking it in bad weather and on event nights. You learn which doors stick, which alarms cry wolf, and which resident assistants will meet you halfway. Reliability is the promotion currency. People who trade shifts cleanly, who write reports a supervisor can follow, and who treat students with the same tone at midnight and at noon are the ones leads remember.
A shift lead still works the campus and adds the roster. You assign zones, you take the call that is going badly, you check reports before they go upstairs, and you are the voice new officers copy. The skill is scheduling and calm, plus enough knowledge of the post orders that you can correct a mistake without humiliating the person who made it. Some leads stay on nights because the differential and the quieter politics suit them. Others use the lead seat as the proof that they can run a tour.
A campus supervisor sits above the tour. The work becomes staffing, training new officers, event plans with student affairs, and the relationship with city police and with the contract company if one is in the mix. You still need to know the doors. You also need to explain a bad night to a dean in the morning. From here some people move into emergency management for the college or into a larger account if they work for a contract firm. The path this page is built around stays on the campus: officer, shift lead, campus supervisor. If the force is sworn, the titles may read officer, sergeant, and a command role, and the peace-officer credential remains the floor under all of them. If the force is guards, the registration remains the floor, and the supervisor's extra skill is the operation, not a badge you were never issued.
District of Columbia figures on the security-guard series
The dollars on this page are the Bureau of Labor Statistics series Security Guards, SOC 33-9032, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics data for May 2025. They describe that guard series. A sworn campus police paycheck may be set on a police scale this series does not report, so use these figures for a security-officer post and ask a sworn agency how its own scale works. The national median is $38,020. The published range opens near $30,210. The gap between them is $7,810, a short climb compared with many other occupations. A first campus post often sits near that entry end, and the median arrives only after you are no longer the newest officer on the roster.
In the District of Columbia the Bureau's listed top, for a place with enough guards on the rolls to be reported, is $78,910. National median to that District top is a gap of $40,890. The District's median, typical pay there, is $64,210, which is a different figure from $78,910. The gap from the national median up to that District median is $26,190. Use $64,210 when you mean what a guard typically earns in the District. Use $78,910 when you mean the District's published top. Opening a first-year talk with the range top asks a campus to pay you as if you were already at the top of a national spread.
Other medians on the chart sit in a tighter band. Alaska is $47,480. Washington is $47,100. Vermont is $45,550. Oregon is $45,500. Each of those is above the $38,020 national median and well below the District's $64,210 typical figure. An offer in Oregon near $45,500 is close to that state's median on this page. An offer near $30,210 is an entry offer. That $7,810 between the opening figure and the countrywide middle is the honest size of the early climb on this series. A later climb toward a lead or a supervisor is where the larger gap, the $40,890 from the median to the District range top, becomes a conversation, and only in a market where that high end is real.
Set the offer beside the guard post you were actually offered
Write the offer next to $30,210 and next to $38,020 before you reply. If the job is a first officer seat on a guard post, a number near the entry end is common, and the ask is concrete: the shift differential for nights, the review that moves you toward $38,020, and whether a lead seat is filled from inside. The $7,810 gap is small enough that a night differential and a year of reliable reports can be the whole early negotiation. Quoting $78,910 at a first interview in Oregon, where the median on this chart is $45,500, will sound like you read the wrong line.
Match the state when you have one. A District of Columbia conversation can use $64,210 as typical pay and can mention $78,910 only for the high end of the range. An Alaska conversation can use $47,480. Washington can use $47,100. Vermont can use $45,550. Oregon can use $45,500. The $26,190 gap between the national median and the District median is a location fact about the guard series. It supports asking whether a move to that market changes the offer. It does not turn a rural campus post into a District wage. If the employer is a contract company, ask whether the rate is the company's rate or the college's rate, and which one is written on your offer.
If the posting is sworn campus police, say so in the pay talk and ask for that agency's scale. These Security Guards figures are the wrong sheet to wave at a police contract. For a guard post, keep the sheet. Bring your registration, your reports, and the state median, and ask for the step your current duties already justify. A lead who assigns zones and checks everyone else's writing is no longer an entry officer, and the number should move with that duty. Close the conversation with the credential the post requires and the dollar that matches the series, so the next shift starts on the job you actually accepted.
The top of Campus Security Officer pay — and how to get there with AI
$78,910what Campus Security Officer pay reaches in District of Columbia
Highest state-level top-of-range annual wage for Security Guards, among states with at least 500 people in the job. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025.
And the role it leads to — Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers — reaches $153,190 in California.
$30,210entry$38,020middle$78,910top end
Mid-range officers know the campus by feel; officers at the top of this range have converted that feel into written post orders, an alarm-response standard and an incident record the university can budget against.
Reports of daily activities and irregularities get written by nine officers in nine formats, so nobody can see that the same residence hall door has failed eleven times this term. Answering alarms, monitoring who enters and departs, and warning or evicting people who break the rules are all judgement calls made the same way by habit and never typed out. An assistant that turns rough shift notes into one consistent format removes the reason nothing gets written, and the officer who writes it becomes the one the department consults before changing anything.
Your playbook, by where you are now
Just startingMake your reports usable by someone who was not there
Write every irregularity the same way: time, building and floor, what you observed, who you notified, what closed it.
Keep your own list of the doors, gates and windows that fail on your route, with the date each one failed.
Learn the screening and detecting equipment at your post well enough to explain a false reading to a dean without guessing.
Write up medical calls immediately after handing off to paramedics, while the order of events is still exact.
What proves it: A term of incident reports a supervisor forwards without rewriting them.
Realistic span: months one through nine
A few years inTurn the shift log into a pattern
Build a Microsoft Excel sheet of alarm responses by building, hour and cause, and separate real intrusions from propped doors and card errors.
Put the building-by-building access quirks on Microsoft SharePoint so the officer covering your nights is not phoning you at two in the morning.
Run dictated shift notes through Microsoft Copilot to produce one report format, then read every line yourself before it is filed.
Write the escort, lockout and lab-access procedures that everyone performs differently and nobody has ever typed.
What proves it: A quarterly alarm and incident summary that changes where officers are posted.
Realistic span: years two through five
ExperiencedOwn the training and the event plan
Write the orientation packet for new officers: patrol routes, screening sequence, and when to call the city police rather than handle it.
Standardise how disturbances and evictions are documented so university counsel can read a file cold.
Take the planning seat for the large events, commencement and athletics and demonstrations, and keep the after-action notes.
Aim at sworn patrol work, since a documented programme is exactly what a police hiring panel reads; the District of Columbia pays this work above anywhere else.
What proves it: An officer handbook and a large-event plan carrying your name.
Realistic span: year six and beyond
The next 90 days
Pick alarms and track them for one term. Every time you answer an alarm, record the building, the time, the device and the actual cause, and mark whether it was an intrusion, a propped door, a card fault or weather. Ninety days of that gives you something no shift log gives your director: a ranked list of which buildings generate work and which of that work is preventable. Walk in with the sheet and one recommendation, and you stop being an officer who is scheduled and start being an officer who is consulted.
Wage figures: BLS OEWS, May 2025. The playbook is PayCrunch editorial guidance, not a guarantee of pay or placement.
Every figure is the national median from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (OEWS) shown on that role’s own page.
Never used AI before? Start here (2 minutes).
Open ChatGPT (or Claude) and use it to sharpen your incident reports first — the single document that most affects whether you're seen as promotable. Write your facts in your own words with names removed (use [STUDENT A], [LOCATION 1]), then have the AI tighten the chronology, flag missing details, and check for clear, neutral, court-ready language. You paste the real identifiers back into your official records system.
For everything else, the free tiers do the job: use ChatGPT or Google Gemini to study for security certifications, draft emergency-drill scenarios, and learn your camera and access-control platforms. Keep all identifiable campus data inside your department's official systems — AI is your writing coach and study partner, not a place for case files.
The one rule, forever: Never paste student or employee names, IDs, medical details, or specifics of an active investigation into a consumer AI tool — that breaks FERPA and Clery obligations and can taint a case. Use AI to structure and polish your writing from de-identified facts only. AI never makes a use-of-force, threat, or evacuation decision — that judgment and liability are yours.
The plays — exact steps, exact prompts
Do these in order. Each one is copy-paste ready. You do not need to know anything about AI going in.
1
Turn every incident report into court-ready writing
Why this pays: Reports are the paper trail supervisors and administrators judge you by; clean, consistent, legally sound reports mark you as promotable and protect the institution — the reputation that moves you from patrol officer toward the $78,910 supervisor tier.
ChatGPTClaudeGrammarly
1
After an incident, jot the raw facts with names and IDs removed (use [STUDENT A], [LOCATION 1]). Open ChatGPT or Claude and have it convert your notes into a clear, chronological, neutral narrative. Paste the real identifiers back into your official records system.
2
Build a reusable prompt that enforces your department's report standard.
Copy-paste this prompt
You are an editor for campus security incident reports. Rewrite the notes below into a factual, chronological, objective report using past tense and neutral language. Do not add facts I did not provide. Flag anything vague or missing (times, directions, descriptions, witness accounts). Keep placeholders like [STUDENT A] exactly as written. Notes: [paste de-identified notes]
Use only de-identified notes — never real student names or IDs in a consumer tool. The AI polishes wording; the facts and final report are yours.
3
Ask the AI to quiz you on what a solid report needs (elements of trespass, chain of custody, use-of-force documentation) so your writing improves permanently.
What you'll haveConsistently professional reports that stand up to review — the visible competence that earns supervisor consideration.
2
Master the camera and access-control tech everyone else avoids
Why this pays: Modern campuses run AI video analytics and cloud access control; the officer who actually operates them becomes the go-to for the security operations center and console jobs that pay above patrol scale.
VerkadaAvigilonGenetec
1
Learn your site's platform — most campuses run Verkada, Avigilon, or Genetec. Use the vendor's free training portal and certification, and practice building searches: person and vehicle filters, loitering alerts, license-plate lookups.
2
When a feature or alert confuses you, ask a general AI to explain it in plain terms.
Copy-paste this prompt
Explain how AI video analytics like [Verkada or Avigilon] detect [loitering / people-count / license plates], what causes false alerts, and how a campus security officer should verify an alert before acting on it. Give me a checklist to confirm a real event versus a false positive.
Learn the tech generally; never upload actual campus footage or student images to a consumer AI tool.
3
Volunteer to write the quick-reference guide for your team on running camera searches. Being the trainer marks you for the operations-center and console roles.
What you'll haveYou become the technology specialist on the team — the skill that unlocks higher-paid operations and console positions.
3
Own emergency preparedness and become the safety planner
Why this pays: Emergency management is where campus security meets the director track. The officer who can draft plans and run drills is doing supervisor-level work and gets paid toward the top of the band.
ChatGPTClaudeFEMA Emergency Management Institute
1
Take the free FEMA Emergency Management Institute Independent Study courses (IS-100, IS-700, active-threat and ICS). Use ChatGPT to summarize each module and quiz you before the exam.
2
Draft realistic tabletop-exercise scenarios and after-action templates for your campus.
Copy-paste this prompt
Act as an emergency management planner for a [community college campus with 8,000 students]. Write a 45-minute tabletop exercise for a [severe weather / lockdown] scenario: objectives, a timeline of injects, discussion questions for security, facilities, and administration, and an after-action-report template. Base it on FEMA and ICS principles.
Use general campus parameters, not real threat intelligence or personal data. A supervisor must approve any real plan.
3
Present a drill proposal to your director. Running exercises is the clearest path from officer to safety coordinator.
What you'll haveA portfolio of drills and plans that positions you for the emergency-management and safety-manager roles at the top of the pay scale.
4
Fast-track the certifications that reprice you
Why this pays: ASIS certifications (PSP, CPP) plus a disciplined study plan are the credential that moves an officer from $38,020 patrol into $79k+ supervisor and corporate or hospital-campus roles.
NotebookLMChatGPTGoogle Gemini
1
Pick the credential that fits your stage — ASIS PSP (Physical Security Professional) or the flagship CPP. Load the official study references into NotebookLM and let it generate summaries, timelines, and a study guide from the source material.
2
Use AI as a relentless exam tutor.
Copy-paste this prompt
You are my tutor for the ASIS [PSP] exam. Quiz me with 15 scenario-based multiple-choice questions on [physical security assessment / crisis management]. After each answer, explain why the right answer is right and the others are wrong, and track which topics I keep missing.
Use AI to drill concepts; always verify against the official ASIS body of knowledge, which is the authority.
3
Put the credential and your tech, report, and emergency work on a one-page internal resume and ask for the supervisor track.
What you'll haveA recognized certification plus demonstrated skills — the concrete case for a promotion and raise into the top of the range.
Your 12-month sequence to the top of the range
How the plays above stack into a path from median pay toward the $78,910 tier.
Month 1
Build your de-identified report-editing prompt and use it on every incident; start FEMA IS-100 and IS-700 online.
Months 2-3
Get certified on your campus camera and access platform and become the person who trains others on searches.
Months 3-6
Draft and pitch a tabletop drill; begin studying for ASIS PSP with NotebookLM and an AI tutor.
Months 6-12
Pass the certification, assemble your one-page internal resume, and apply for the supervisor or safety-coordinator track.
Gear for this job
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Elsevier / Butterworth-Heinemann 5th (2016), ISBN 978-0-12-804462-9. Publisher PSP-reading desk book for this page’s ASIS PSP / CPP play — begin studying for ASIS PSP. Confirm the 5th, not leftover 4th 0124158927. Not official ASIS store-only PSP Study Guide 3rd 1934904988 and not IFPO CPO (that is security-guard). HTTP 200 on /dp/0128044624.
Next steps for a Campus Security Officer
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Campus Security Officer work is specific enough that a stamped 'check out these courses' block would be noise. BLS files this work as Security Guards (SOC 33-9032). O*NET Job Zone 2 is typical: a high-school diploma plus short vocational training, so the honest next credential is a short certificate or vocational program — not a random catalog dump.
Campus Security Officers in this dataset list Microsoft SharePoint among the tools in use, so a program that names that stack is a better fit than a survey course.
The next title this dataset points at is Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers; a credential aimed that way is a clearer step than another year in the same seat.
Coursera search for criminal justice — a short certificate or vocational program that lines up with protective service, not a generic professional-development aisle.
Write a Campus Security Officer resume, or one aimed at Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers, instead of a blank template. Resume Now is a resume builder; we are not claiming a counted template set for this SOC.
A Campus Security Officer resume that names the actual tasks on this page, or the step-up title Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers, beats a blank template when you apply.
What Campus Security Officers earn by state
These are the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ own figures for Security Guards, state by state — not a cost-of-living adjustment applied to the national number. Only states employing at least 500 people in the occupation are shown, because a state median drawn from a handful of workers is noise rather than a signal.
District of Columbia
$64,210
highest of them · +69% vs the national median
Puerto Rico
$21,840
lowest of the 54 states and territories that qualify · -43% vs the national median
The same job pays $42,370 more a year at the median in District of Columbia than in Puerto Rico — 194% higher. That gap is what the Bureau measured, before any question of what it costs to live in either place. District of Columbia also carries the top of this job’s range, $78,910 — the figure quoted at the head of this page.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, SOC 33-9032. 54 states and territories clear the 500-employee reporting floor for this occupation; those below it are left out rather than shown with a wide error band.
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No. AI cameras and analytics flag events, but they cannot physically respond, de-escalate a conflict, reassure a scared student, or make a use-of-force or evacuation decision — and no institution will accept an algorithm's liability for campus safety. AI is changing the job by handling monitoring and paperwork, which frees officers for response and prevention. The officers who run the technology and write the plans get promoted; those who ignore it stay on the lowest-paid patrol shifts.
Is it safe to use ChatGPT for incident reports?
Only with identifiers removed. Student names, IDs, medical information, and details of active investigations must never go into a consumer AI tool — that violates FERPA and Clery and could compromise a case. Write with placeholders, let the AI polish the structure and language, then restore the real details inside your official records system.
What is the single highest-value AI skill for me?
Report writing, then platform mastery. Clean, consistent, court-ready reports are what supervisors and administrators actually see, and being the officer who can run the camera analytics makes you indispensable. Together they are the case for promotion.
How does AI actually raise my pay in this job?
It compresses the time paperwork and studying used to steal, so you can add the credentials (ASIS PSP or CPP, FEMA and ICS) and skills (analytics, emergency planning) that move you from hourly patrol into supervisor, operations-center, and safety-manager roles — the difference between $38,020 and $79k+.
I only have a high school diploma — can I still reach the top?
Yes. This field promotes on demonstrated competence and certifications, not degrees. Use free AI tutors and FEMA's free courses to earn credentials, master the technology, and build a documented track record; that portfolio, not a diploma, is what gets you the supervisor and director-track roles.
Methodology & sources
Salary (median, 10th, top of the range) — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS.
By state — the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ own state medians, limited to states employing at least 500 people in the occupation. No cost-of-living arithmetic is applied to a wage anywhere on this page.
The plays — PayCrunch's own step-by-step guidance using publicly available AI tools. Tool names/URLs are real and current as of August 2026; prompts written to work as-is. Verify any professional output before relying on it.