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Alliance 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.
Alliance Police Department starts at $54,454 a year — about $26.18 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $13,936 below the median of the 1,681 agencies on this list, and $16,810 below the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Nebraska run about 10% below the national average, so this goes about as far as $60,436 would somewhere at average prices — $5,981 more than the headline figure. Most of that is rent, at 75 against a national average of 100, where goods are 94. Based on state-wide price levels, because this agency is not tied to a single metro 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 isAlliance Police Department reported 13 sworn officers and 6 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 1.6 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 8,049.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.
About Alliance
Alliance Police Department recruits non-certified trainees for academy attendance and advancement into certified Police Officer service. Officers provide municipal law-enforcement, patrol, emergency response, crime prevention, investigation and community public-safety services for the City of Alliance
Alliance’s rotation, in BlueShifts
Alliance says its patrol officers work four days on and three days off, with two scheduled 10-hour shifts, and scheduling set so each officer has weekends off six months out of the year.
The rotation template screen — enter the cycle and the start date, and you are done.
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Every month, already filled in — no typing, however far ahead you look.
September 2026
This cycle has its own page: how it works, and how to build it.
Alliance publishes the days on and off but not which are days and which are nights. In BlueShifts you choose that yourself — every shift can be a day, a night or a 24-hour tour, and the calendar marks it with a sun, a moon or a clock.
BlueShifts draws the 4-on/3-off cycle once and repeats it, so the weekends-off half of the year falls out of the pattern automatically.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 8 August 2026. City of Alliance official Police Officer - Non — open the source document
Current 2026 recruitment; starting wage upon certification $26.18/hour = $54,454.40 annually. Non-certified trainee wage is $23.56/hour and is excluded under the project's post-certification standard. Hiring bonus and higher DOQ placement are excluded
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.
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How this level compares
Where Alliance 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. Alliance starts at $54,454, so $16,833 below the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Alliance Police Department officer make?
Alliance Police Department starts a new officer on $54,454 a year, about $26.18 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 Alliance official Police Officer - Non.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Nebraska?
It ranks #16 of 17 agencies we have verified in Nebraska — 1 pay less, 15 pay more in the state — and #1,455 of 1,681 nationally. Against the national median it is $13,936 below, and against other municipal agencies $16,810 below.
What shifts do Alliance Police Department officers work?
Alliance says its patrol officers work four days on and three days off, with two scheduled 10-hour shifts, and scheduling set so each officer has weekends off six months out of the year. That is the agency's own published wording; the pattern is drawn on this page.
Compare with another department
Put Alliance 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 NE
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Alliance | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lincoln Police Department | Municipal | 351 | $74,568 | +$20,114 | #574 |
| 2 | Sarpy County Sheriff's Office | County | 114 | $73,861 | +$19,406 | #600 |
| 3 | La Vista Police Department | Municipal | 42 | $73,653 | +$19,198 | #605 |
| 4 | Lancaster County Sheriff's Office | County | 86 | $72,280 | +$17,826 | #653 |
| 5 | Nebraska State Patrol | State | 410 | $70,195 | +$15,741 | #760 |
| 6 | University of Nebraska-Lincoln Police Department | Special jurisdiction | 30 | $70,042 | +$15,588 | #766 |
| 7 | Papillion Police Department | Municipal | 48 | $69,086 | +$14,631 | #809 |
| 8 | Douglas County Sheriff's Office | County | 155 | $68,744 | +$14,290 | #827 |
| 9 | Grand Island Police Department | Municipal | 89 | $67,621 | +$13,166 | #886 |
| 10 | Columbus Police Department | Municipal | 37 | $65,340 | +$10,886 | #1,003 |
| 11 | Hall County Sheriff's Office | County | 34 | $61,027 | +$6,573 | #1,191 |
| 12 | Nebraska Game and Parks Commission — Law Enforcement Division | State | — | $58,947 | +$4,493 | #1,288 |
Base pay is only part of the year
Whatever the figure above, the rotation is what decides your year — which weekends you lose, when the changeovers land, what you can plan around. Save yours once and BlueShifts shows it a year ahead, with the off-duty jobs you take and what each one paid.
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