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; in New York the NYPD, Nassau and Suffolk County police, Buffalo police, the Port Authority Police and the MTA Police; in Utah, 80 city police departments and police agencies; and in Kentucky, the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD). More states follow as we collect their data.

2024 and 2025 dataNew York$132,170average total pay of full-year officers131,555 officers6 department pagesCompare every New York department2025 dataCalifornia$179,627average total pay of full-year officers229,482 officers321 department pagesCompare every California departmentfiscal years 2025 and 2026 dataUtah$98,209average total pay of full-year officers33,212 officers72 department pagesCompare every Utah department2025 dataKentucky$112,274average total pay of full-year officers4800 officers1 department pageSee Kentucky

Work in progress

Police officer pay in more states, and sheriff's deputies, 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; in New York the NYPD, Nassau and Suffolk County police, Buffalo police, the Port Authority Police and the MTA Police; in Utah, 80 city police departments and police agencies; and in Kentucky, the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD). 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.

  1. City of New York, Citywide Payroll Data (Fiscal Year); Suffolk County, County Salaries by Department 2024 and 2023; City of Buffalo, Open Payroll; Nassau County Comptroller, Nassau Open Payroll; Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Payroll Information, fourth quarter 2025; Metropolitan Transportation Authority, MTA Employee Payroll: Beginning 2025 (Open NY), the newest year each employer has published (2024 and 2025): wages of every police officer position.
  2. State Controller's Office, Government Compensation in California, 2025: wages of every police officer position.
  3. Transparent Utah, Office of the Utah State Auditor, the newest year each employer has published (fiscal years 2025 and 2026): wages of every police officer position.
  4. Louisville Metro Government, Louisville Metro KY Employee Salary Data (Louisville Open Data), 2025: wages of every police officer position.

How we read the data