Browse venue and festival security openings across the Austin metro - updated continuously. Built for Austin officers.
Austin's event security calendar is unlike any other Texas city. Moody Center's 150+ annual events - $89.8 million grossed in a single year, 854,000 paying visitors, named the highest-grossing midsize venue in the US by Billboard for 2025 - is alone more than most Texas cities' entire event security market. BEST Crowd Management's full-time security officer presence at Moody Center means consistent employment beyond event days.
SXSW in March, Austin City Limits Festival in October, Formula 1 at Circuit of the Americas in October, and Austin FC's MLS season create event security employment spread across ten months of the year. 5 STAR Event Services has been operating in Austin since 2000 covering MLS, NASCAR, Formula 1, AHL, concerts, and conventions - getting on their roster provides year-round event security access across multiple venue types.
BEST Crowd Management at Moody Center handles entry screening and crowd flow management at scale - conducting thorough bag checks at entry gates, verifying tickets, managing magnetometer lanes, maintaining concourse crowd flow during peak periods, and enforcing venue policies. On UT basketball game days the environment is 10,000-seat collegiate sports; on major concert nights the full 15,000-seat bowl configuration.',
SXSW security is distributed across dozens of venues simultaneously - officers work a single venue assignment for a specific SXSW event (a showcase at a club, a keynote at a convention center, a film screening at a theater), managing venue-specific entry, crowd, and incident protocols in a compressed ten-day high-intensity window. The pace and variety of SXSW security is unlike any single-venue assignment.',
Austin event security: ZipRecruiter avg $18.18/hr (June 2026). SXSW Texas avg $24.20/hr (June 2026). BEST Moody Center: competitive wages, FT and PT available. 5 STAR Event Services: per-event. Q2 Stadium avg $24.46/hr.
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