CoreCivic
533 open jobsGeneral information
CoreCivic is based in Nashville, Tennessee. It runs prisons, jails and detention centers for federal, state and local governments across the United States. Its CoreCivic Residential division manages correctional, detention and reentry facilities. CoreCivic Services provides support like transportation, pharmacy services, electronic monitoring and case management for the corrections industry.
The company was set up on January 28, 1983, in Nashville. It grew out of a crisis in Tennessee prisons, after a federal judge ruled that state prisons were unfit for people to live in. CoreCivic is a public company; its largest shareholders include BlackRock and Vanguard. It runs 82 facilities across the US, with $2.2 billion in revenue in 2025. That means people held in its facilities are under contracts with government agencies, not run directly by the government itself.
Currently, there's a total of 510 job openings at CoreCivic. Over the last 30 days, 753 jobs were added and 265 were removed (job postings usually stay up ~9 days before being removed). Historically, the median salary is ~$107,000.1
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What does CoreCivic actually pay? Based on previous and active job listings with specified pay ranges, the median annual pay is $97,175. Note that 73% of jobs don't list any pay information, so figures may be skewed towards cities like NYC, where pay disclosure is mandated for each posting.3
Share of salaried jobs in each pay bracket
| Bracket | Jobs |
|---|---|
| Under $100k | 48 jobs (51%) |
| $100k to $150k | 16 jobs (17%) |
| $150k to $200k | 17 jobs (18%) |
| $200k and up | 13 jobs (14%) |
Plus 116 hourly jobs at $22.03 to $125 an hour.
Posted ranges on jobs open now3
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Common questions
Is CoreCivic hiring now?
Yes. There are 533 open jobs.
How much does CoreCivic pay?
Posted pay runs $47,274 to $450,000 a year, and the median is $97,175. We only show pay the company printed itself, never estimates.
Hiring trend: available after 60 days of clean history · tracking since August 2026. Velocity stats appear after 60 days of clean history. We're on day 35.
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Notes & sources
- 1. Company description. Written by InterviewOS from CoreCivic's public materials and press coverage; facts are checked against the sources below.
- 2. Live counts. Deduplicated live listings observed daily on CoreCivic's own hiring system; last check September 12, 2026. Stale and syndicated posts on aggregator sites are not counted.
- 3. Posted pay. Ranges extracted from the text of CoreCivic's own listings; a range appears only when the employer printed one. Extraction is still rolling out, so this table can lag the board.
Sources
corecivic.com, checked daily
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