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Ankeny 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.
Ankeny Police Department starts at $76,648 a year — about $36.85 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $8,258 above the median of the 1,681 agencies on this list, and $5,384 above the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Iowa run about 12% below the national average, so this goes about as far as $87,336 would somewhere at average prices — $10,688 more than the headline figure. Most of that is rent, at 65 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 isAnkeny Police Department reported 78 sworn officers and 11 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 1.0 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 78,916.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 Ankeny says about itself
Through courage, honor, and integrity, provide safety and security to everyone in our community.
What Ankeny does
Ankeny Police Department recruits Police Officers through a civil-service hiring process using Iowa Law Enforcement Academy entrance standards.
Ankeny’s rotation, in BlueShifts
Ankeny's sergeants and police officers in the Operations Division work a rotating schedule of nine-hour shifts, five days on and three days off.
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.
Ankeny 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.
An eight-day cycle on nine-hour shifts never lines up with a seven-day week, so your days off walk through the calendar. BlueShifts draws the whole rotation out months ahead.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 10 August 2026. City of Ankeny Salary & Benefits / FY2027 Job Classifications and Pay Plans — open the source document
Current City page states $76,648 starting base salary for non-certified officer. FY2027 Teamsters Police pay plan independently lists Police Officer Step 1 at $76,648. Class: Police Officer. Trainee class: YES, current City page expressly publishes a non-certified officer starting salary. City Police hiring process applies Iowa Law Enforcement Academy entrance standards to Police Officer applicants.
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 Ankeny 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. Ankeny starts at $76,648, so $5,361 above the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Ankeny Police Department officer make?
Ankeny Police Department starts a new officer on $76,648 a year, about $36.85 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 Ankeny Salary & Benefits / FY2027 Job Classifications and Pay Plans.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Iowa?
It ranks #4 of 28 agencies we have verified in Iowa — 24 pay less, 3 pay more in the state — and #491 of 1,681 nationally. Against the national median it is $8,258 above, and against other municipal agencies $5,384 above.
What shifts do Ankeny Police Department officers work?
Ankeny's sergeants and police officers in the Operations Division work a rotating schedule of nine-hour shifts, five days on and three days off. That is the agency's own published wording; the pattern is drawn on this page.
Compare with another department
Put Ankeny 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 IA
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Ankeny | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Iowa County Sheriff's Office | County | 14 | $85,550 | +$8,902 | #281 |
| 2 | Des Moines Police Department | Municipal | 367 | $84,635 | +$7,987 | #297 |
| 3 | Norwalk Police Department | Municipal | 22 | $76,710 | +$62 | #486 |
| 5 | Urbandale Police Department | Municipal | 58 | $76,028 | −$620 | #516 |
| 6 | Woodbury County Sheriff's Office | County | 44 | $73,944 | −$2,704 | #597 |
| 7 | Linn County Sheriff's Office | County | 120 | $73,216 | −$3,432 | #616 |
| 8 | Chickasaw County Sheriff's Office | County | 10 | $71,822 | −$4,826 | #678 |
| 9 | Mason City Police Department | Municipal | 40 | $71,448 | −$5,200 | #698 |
| 10 | Johnson County Sheriff's Office | County | 81 | $70,871 | −$5,777 | #732 |
| 11 | Iowa Department of Natural Resources — Conservation Law Enforcement | State | — | $70,574 | −$6,074 | #742 |
| 12 | Davenport Police Department | Municipal | 143 | $70,322 | −$6,326 | #752 |
| 13 | Clinton County Sheriff's Office | County | 30 | $70,200 | −$6,448 | #759 |
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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