Highest police officer salaries in New York, by employer, 2024-25

Port Authority of New York and New Jersey pays New York's highest average total pay for police officers: $184,666 for those who worked the full year in the newest year each employer has published (2024 and 2025), against a state average of $132,943. It also has the highest overtime ($44,940).

Where do police officers earn the most in New York?

The 5 employers with the highest average total pay of full-year police officers, overtime included. Sergeants and higher ranks aren't in these figures.

Highest average total pay

  1. Port Authority of New York and New JerseyPublic authority, New York and New Jersey, 2025
    1,565 full-year officers    $184,666
  2. Nassau CountyCounty government, 2025
    1,745 full-year officers    $164,066
  3. Suffolk CountyCounty government, 2024
    1,540 full-year officers    $149,559
  4. New York CityCity government, fiscal year 2025
    19,169 full-year officers    $124,942
  5. BuffaloCity in Erie County, fiscal year 2025
    365 full-year officers    $112,485

Highest police officer base pay in New York

Average base pay of full-year officers, without overtime and other pay: closer to what the job pays for a regular schedule.

Highest average base pay

  1. Nassau CountyCounty government, 2025
    1,745 full-year officers    $115,451
  2. Port Authority of New York and New JerseyPublic authority, New York and New Jersey, 2025
    1,565 full-year officers    $112,580
  3. Suffolk CountyCounty government, 2024
    1,540 full-year officers    $100,286
  4. BuffaloCity in Erie County, fiscal year 2025
    365 full-year officers    $89,796
  5. New York CityCity government, fiscal year 2025
    19,169 full-year officers    $85,868

Where do New York police officers earn the most overtime?

Average overtime paid to full-year officers in the newest year each employer has published (2024 and 2025). A few people with a lot of overtime can pull an employer's average up.

Highest average overtime

  1. Port Authority of New York and New JerseyPublic authority, New York and New Jersey, 2025
    1,565 full-year officers    $44,940
  2. New York CityCity government, fiscal year 2025
    19,169 full-year officers    $22,696
  3. Suffolk CountyCounty government, 2024
    1,540 full-year officers    $22,539
  4. Nassau CountyCounty government, 2025
    1,745 full-year officers    $20,121
  5. BuffaloCity in Erie County, fiscal year 2025
    365 full-year officers    $12,975

Questions about the highest police officer salaries in New York

Which New York police department pays officers the most?

Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, where full-year officers earned an average of $184,666 in 2025, overtime included. Nassau County ($164,066) and Suffolk County ($149,559) follow.

Where do police officers earn the most overtime in New York?

Full-year officers at Port Authority of New York and New Jersey were paid an average of $44,940 in overtime in 2025, the most of any New York employer with at least 5 of them. The New York average is $23,784.

Sources for the New York police officer rankings

New York City's pay figures use only people still employed at the end of June 2025 who worked at least 90% of a full year's regular hours at their title's standard week. The other employers' files have no hours, so their figures use full-time staff who held the same title the year before and earned at least 90% of that year's pay (Suffolk and Nassau counties), who were paid their salary on at least 90% of the year's paydays (Buffalo), or who started before the year and were paid at least 90% of their own annual rate (Port Authority). Total pay is gross wages before tax, including overtime, lump sums and other pay. Every figure covers at least 5 people. Rankings and medians are our own arithmetic on these figures. Each employer's figures are from the newest year it has published (2024 and 2025).

  1. City of New York, Citywide Payroll Data (Fiscal Year): titles, base salaries, regular pay, overtime and other pay of every city employee, fiscal year 2025 (July 2024 to June 2025).
  2. City of New York, Department of Citywide Administrative Services, Civil Service Titles: official minimum and maximum pay per title, current list (2026).
  3. City of New York and Police Benevolent Association, 2017-2025 Memorandum of Understanding (April 2023): the Police Officer salary schedule from August 2023 and the 4% raise from August 2024, the last under the agreement; copy published by Ballotpedia, checked against the city payroll.
  4. Suffolk County, County Salaries by Department 2024 and 2023: each county employee's most recent title, hire and end dates, regular earnings, overtime and total pay in 2024; the 2023 file shows who held the same title a year earlier.
  5. City of Buffalo, Open Payroll: every pay line of every city employee, with title, start date and kind of pay, fiscal year 2025 (July 2024 to June 2025), added up per person.
  6. Nassau County Comptroller, Nassau Open Payroll: title, full- or part-time status, regular pay, overtime, longevity, shift differential, termination pay and other pay of every county employee in 2025, and in 2024 to see who held the same title a year earlier.
  7. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Payroll Information, fourth quarter 2025: title, hire dates, annual rate, base pay, overtime and other pay of every employee for the whole of 2025 (the fourth-quarter file is year to date).

How we read the data