Police officer salaries by state and department
What police officers earn at each city police department and police district: what they actually earned, overtime included, next to the official pay range, with sergeant, lieutenant and captain pay alongside. So far the site covers every California city police department and police district. More states follow as we collect their data.
Work in progress
Police officer pay in New York and more states, as we collect the data
This page will compare police officer pay across states. For now it covers every California city police department and police district; New York comes next, and county sheriff's deputies get pages of their own. Each state publishes local government pay differently, so we add states one at a time, after checking their files.
Until then, each state's page has everything we've published so far.
Sources for the state figures
Total pay is gross wages before tax, overtime included, of officers who worked roughly the full year. Each state's page explains its full-year rule.
- State Controller's Office, Government Compensation in California, 2025: wages of every police officer position.