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Auburn 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.
Auburn Police Department starts at $69,000 a year — about $33.17 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $610 above the median of the 1,681 agencies on this list, and $2,264 below the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Lewiston-Auburn, ME run about 5% below the national average, so this goes about as far as $72,834 would somewhere at average prices — $3,834 more than the headline figure. Most of that is utilities, at 134 against a national average of 100, where goods are 97. 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 isAuburn Police Department reported 51 sworn officers and 5 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 2.0 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 25,487.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 Auburn says about itself
The Auburn Police Department is charged with preserving life and property, maintaining the public order, and enforcing local, state and federal laws in a manner that fosters good relations between the department and the citizens of Auburn.
What Auburn does
Auburn Police Department states its vision as being community focused in all that it does, and its values as honor, excellence, loyalty and professionalism
Where the figure comes from
Checked 10 August 2026. Auburn Police Department recruitment page — open the source document
Their source is effective 10 August 2026.
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 Auburn 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. Auburn starts at $69,000, so $2,287 below the municipal middle.
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How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Auburn Police Department officer make?
Auburn Police Department starts a new officer on $69,000 a year, about $33.17 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 Auburn Police Department recruitment page.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Maine?
It ranks #10 of 19 agencies we have verified in Maine — 9 pay less, 9 pay more in the state — and #815 of 1,681 nationally. Against the national median it is $610 above, and against other municipal agencies $2,264 below.
Compare with another department
Put Auburn 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 ME
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Auburn | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rockland Police Department | Municipal | 19 | $77,896 | +$8,896 | #459 |
| 2 | Biddeford Police Department | Municipal | 45 | $76,482 | +$7,482 | #494 |
| 3 | Westbrook Police Department | Municipal | 47 | $73,736 | +$4,736 | #604 |
| 4 | Falmouth Police Department | Municipal | 19 | $71,344 | +$2,344 | #704 |
| 5 | Bath Police Department | Municipal | 18 | $71,011 | +$2,011 | #721 |
| 6 | York County Sheriff's Office | County | 23 | $70,628 | +$1,628 | #741 |
| 7 | Freeport Police Department | Municipal | 17 | $69,306 | +$306 | #798 |
| 8 | Windham Police Department | Municipal | 28 | $69,251 | +$251 | #802 |
| 9 | Bangor Police Department | Municipal | 82 | $69,181 | +$181 | #803 |
| 11 | Augusta Police Department | Municipal | 44 | $67,371 | −$1,629 | #901 |
| 12 | Portland Police Department | Municipal | 131 | $65,874 | −$3,126 | #973 |
| 13 | Lewiston Police Department | Municipal | 78 | $65,624 | −$3,376 | #986 |
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