Utah police officer salaries by employer, 2025-26

• Depending on the employer, average total pay runs from $65,810 to $142,031.

  That's the range across the 48 employers with at least 10 full-year officers. The best-paying employer's officers earn more than twice the lowest-paying one's.

• Sergeants average $128,939, $30,730 more than officers.

  Full-year police detectives averaged $94,533, sergeants averaged $128,939, lieutenants averaged $140,167 and captains averaged $153,762. Those ranks are kept out of the officer figures on this page.

• Summit, Wasatch and Salt Lake counties pay the most.

  By county, the average total pay of city and district police officers is highest in Summit, Wasatch and Salt Lake counties ($130,408, $110,847 and $104,497).

Highest police officer salaries in Utah: the top employers by total pay and by county

• Pay here is total pay, overtime included.

  Utah's file has one wage figure per person, so base pay and overtime can't be shown on their own.¹

• Who worked the full year is our best estimate.

  The file has no hours or start dates. We count someone as full-year when they worked for the same employer the year before, were paid at least 90% as much, and were paid at least a full year at the minimum wage.² Steady part-timers paid above that can still pass the test: 10 of the 2,326 full-year officers were paid under $25,000.

• Employers report different years.

  Each employer shows the newest full year it has published: fiscal year 2026 for 60 employers and fiscal year 2025 for 12 employers. Where an employer's 2026 figures looked like part of a year, we show 2025. State figures combine both years.

• There are no official pay ranges.

  The file lists each person's title and pay, not the employer's pay scale, so these pages show what officers were paid, not what a job can pay.

• Titles were sorted by hand.

  The file has no departments and cuts some long titles short, so we decided each title one by one. A plain "Lieutenant" or "Captain" can be a police or a fire rank, so we count it only at departments where the same people also held police titles there and none held a fire title.

• Box Elder County

  • Brigham City$100,211
  • PerryFewer than 5

• Cache County

  • Logan$79,856
  • Smithfield$64,039

• Carbon County

  • Price$65,810
  • WellingtonFewer than 5

• Davis County

  • Bountiful$98,976
  • Centerville$88,757
  • Clearfield$90,645
  • Clinton$82,478
  • Farmington$84,532
  • Kaysville$95,386
  • Layton$99,614
  • North Salt Lake$100,208
  • Syracuse$80,394
  • West Bountiful$77,117
  • Woods Cross$96,940

• Duchesne County

  • Roosevelt$72,312

• Grand County

  • Moab$97,406

• Iron County

  • Cedar City$67,464
  • Parowan$105,090

• Juab County

  • Nephi$75,294

• Kane County

  • Kanab$73,697

• Salt Lake County

  • Cottonwood Heights$100,711
  • Draper$97,850
  • Herriman$99,595
  • Murray$98,773
  • Riverton$112,342
  • Salt Lake City$111,360
  • Sandy$105,623
  • South Jordan$93,852
  • South Salt Lake$96,625
  • Taylorsville$102,881
  • Unified Police Department$101,637
  • West Jordan$95,354
  • West Valley City$103,104

• San Juan County

  • BlandingFewer than 5

• Sanpete County

  • Gunnison Valley Police DepartmentFewer than 5
  • Mount PleasantFewer than 5

• Sevier County

  • Richfield$70,564
  • SalinaFewer than 5

• Summit County

  • KamasFewer than 5
  • Park City$142,031

• Tooele County

  • Grantsville$96,805
  • Tooele$86,752

• Uintah County

  • NaplesFewer than 5
  • Vernal$69,781

• Utah County

  • American Fork$80,061
  • Lehi$110,420
  • Lindon$87,056
  • MapletonFewer than 5
  • Orem$97,880
  • Payson$82,394
  • Pleasant Grove$85,688
  • Provo$87,739
  • Salem$101,031
  • Santaquin$91,156
  • Saratoga Springs$87,154
  • Spanish Fork$93,693
  • Springville$85,423

• Wasatch County

  • Heber$110,847

• Washington County

  • Hurricane$83,630
  • La VerkinFewer than 5
  • Springdale$121,100
  • St. George$96,404
  • Washington City$91,358

• Weber County

  • Harrisville$86,967
  • North Ogden$81,708
  • Ogden$98,590
  • Riverdale$106,893
  • Roy$85,686
  • South OgdenFewer than 5