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Albany Police Department entry pay
What this agency pays a new officer to start, and how that compares with the rest of the country.
Entry pay onlyEvery salary here is what an officer is paid on day one, out of the academy — base pay on a 40-hour week, with no overtime, shift differential, specialty or education pay counted. Nobody stays on it.
Albany Police Department starts at $50,862 a year — about $24.45 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $17,528 below the median of the 1,681 agencies on this list, and $20,402 below the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Albany, GA run about 12% below the national average, so this goes about as far as $58,016 would somewhere at average prices — $7,154 more than the headline figure. Most of that is rent, at 55 against a national average of 100, where goods are 96. Based on price levels for this metropolitan area, from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2024. The salary above is what the employer publishes; this line is our arithmetic on it, and nothing on this site is ranked on it.
How big the department isAlbany Police Department reported 125 sworn officers and 58 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 1.9 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 66,132.A rate is only meaningful for a city department, where the population served is the city’s own. Reporting to the FBI is voluntary, so a count can reflect a partial return as easily as a small agency, and the FBI asks that agencies not be compared on staffing. Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, Full-time Law Enforcement Employees, 2025.
What Albany says about itself
Our mission is to develop our personnel to deliver quality law enforcement services with professionalism, integrity, and compassion and to ensure with every interaction we are building trust and modeling ethical policing in our community.
What Albany does
Albany says Police Officers protect life and property, respond to public needs, deter criminal activity, enforce state and local laws and ordinances, and protect constitutional rights. Officers patrol neighborhoods and businesses, investigate activity, make reports, and cooperate with other law-enforcement agencies.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 10 August 2026. City of Albany, Georgia Police Officer posting — open the source document
Their source is effective 3 September 2025.
Entry-level base salary only. Overtime, bonuses, education incentives, shift
differentials, locality pay and lateral rates are excluded, so most officers earn more
than this.
How this level compares
Where Albany sits is partly about the agency and partly about which level of policing it belongs to. The three levels do not pay the same.
| Level | Lowest | Median | Highest | Agencies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Municipal | $35,006 | $71,287 | $163,619 | 1046 |
| County | $36,492 | $65,374 | $132,263 | 416 |
| Special jurisdiction | $31,200 | $60,195 | $107,954 | 69 |
| State | $33,994 | $64,998 | $102,692 | 143 |
| Federal | $70,477 | $73,502 | $86,530 | 5 |
| Territory | $16,640 | $28,236 | $43,354 | 9 |
Federal agencies pay the most to start
The middle federal agency starts at $73,502 — about $2,200 more than the middle municipal agency and about $8,100 more than the middle county agency and about $13,300 more than the middle special jurisdiction agency and about $8,500 more than the middle state agency and about $45,300 more than the middle territory agency. Albany starts at $50,862, so $20,425 below the municipal middle.
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How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Albany Police Department officer make?
Albany Police Department starts a new officer on $50,862 a year, about $24.45 an hour on a 2,080-hour year. That is base salary before overtime, bonuses, education incentives, shift differentials and locality pay, so most serving officers earn more. The figure comes from City of Albany, Georgia Police Officer posting.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Georgia?
It ranks #21 of 25 agencies we have verified in Georgia — 4 pay less, 20 pay more in the state — and #1,537 of 1,681 nationally. Against the national median it is $17,528 below, and against other municipal agencies $20,402 below.
Compare with another department
Put Albany Police Department side by side with any other agency on the site — the two salaries, what each is worth once local prices are counted, and which comes out ahead.
The agencies either side of it
Other agencies in GA
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Albany | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sandy Springs Police Department | Municipal | 149 | $71,686 | +$20,824 | #687 |
| 2 | Georgia Bureau of Investigation | State | 338 | $64,977 | +$14,114 | #1,027 |
| 3 | Georgia State Patrol | State | — | $63,684 | +$12,822 | #1,072 |
| 4 | South Fulton Police Department | Municipal | 213 | $63,440 | +$12,578 | #1,086 |
| 5 | Roswell Police Department | Municipal | 154 | $62,462 | +$11,600 | #1,135 |
| 6 | Savannah Police Department | Municipal | 425 | $61,989 | +$11,127 | #1,156 |
| 7 | Alpharetta Police Department | Municipal | 105 | $61,100 | +$10,238 | #1,190 |
| 8 | Atlanta Police Department | Municipal | 1,817 | $60,987 | +$10,125 | #1,196 |
| 9 | Snellville Police Department | Municipal | 50 | $60,905 | +$10,043 | #1,199 |
| 10 | Fulton County Sheriff's Office | County | 349 | $60,000 | +$9,138 | #1,240 |
| 11 | Fulton County Police Department | Municipal | 349 | $60,000 | +$9,138 | #1,249 |
| 12 | Athens-Clarke County Police Department | Municipal | 235 | $59,287 | +$8,425 | #1,275 |
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