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Baldwin Park 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.
Baldwin Park Police Department starts at $91,925 a year — about $44.19 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $25,241 above the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $23,785 above the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in California run about 11% above the national average, so this is worth roughly $83,025 somewhere at average prices — $8,900 less than the headline figure. Most of that is utilities, at 159 against a national average of 100, where goods are 106. 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 isBaldwin Park Police Department reported 60 sworn officers and 26 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 0.9 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 68,586.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 Baldwin Park says about itself
The department provides public safety through its basic police patrol service.
What Baldwin Park does
The Baldwin Park Police Department serves the city of Baldwin Park, California, in the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles County. Its sworn officers are represented by the Police Officers Association, whose salary schedule the City publishes with a pre-academy class titled Public Safety Trainee rather than Police Recruit, sitting beneath the Police Officer class on the same document.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 21 September 2026. City of Baldwin Park Salary Schedule, Police Officers Association unit, effective 1 July 2025 — "50076 Police Officer NE Step 1 91,925.43 $ 7,660.45 $ 44.1949". — open the source document
$91,925.43 is the City's own annual figure for Step 1 of class 50076 and no arithmetic has been applied to it - the schedule prints the same rate three ways, annual, $7,660.45 monthly and $44.1949 hourly. THE PRE-ACADEMY CLASS IS ON THE SAME SCHEDULE UNDER A NAME THAT DOES NOT SAY POLICE, WHICH IS THE TRAP HERE: Baldwin Park has no class called Police Recruit or Police Officer Trainee. Its pre-academy class is "51071 Public Safety Trainee NE Step 1 68,597.73 $ 5,716.48 $ 32.9797", and a reader looking only for the word recruit would find none and might take the trainee figure for a civilian post or miss it entirely. It is the training class, it is not the figure, and Police Officer Step 1 is. THE FIGURE IS DATED BY THE SCHEDULE ITSELF, 1 July 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.
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How this level compares
Where Baldwin Park 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 | $33,280 | $68,140 | $163,619 | 1549 |
| County | $35,000 | $63,565 | $132,263 | 516 |
| Special jurisdiction | $31,200 | $60,204 | $107,954 | 71 |
| State | $33,994 | $65,166 | $110,916 | 145 |
| 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 $5,400 more than the middle municipal agency and about $9,900 more than the middle county agency and about $13,300 more than the middle special jurisdiction agency and about $8,300 more than the middle state agency and about $45,300 more than the middle territory agency. Baldwin Park starts at $91,925, so $23,785 above the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Baldwin Park Police Department officer make?
Baldwin Park Police Department starts a new officer on $91,925 a year, about $44.19 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 Baldwin Park Salary Schedule, Police Officers Association unit, effective 1 July 2025 — "50076 Police Officer NE Step 1 91,925.43 $ 7,660.45 $ 44.1949"..
Is that good pay for a police officer in California?
It ranks #172 of 278 agencies we have verified in California — 106 pay less, 171 pay more in the state — and #229 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $25,241 above, and against other municipal agencies $23,785 above.
Compare with another department
Put Baldwin Park 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 CA
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Baldwin | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Santa Clara Police Department | Municipal | 141 | $163,619 | +$71,694 | #1 |
| 2 | Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety | Municipal | 227 | $149,443 | +$57,518 | #2 |
| 3 | Redwood City Police Department | Municipal | 83 | $147,942 | +$56,017 | #3 |
| 4 | San Jose Police Department | Municipal | 1,065 | $144,003 | +$52,078 | #4 |
| 5 | Mountain View Police Department | Municipal | 90 | $143,096 | +$51,171 | #5 |
| 6 | San Mateo Police Department | Municipal | 111 | $141,024 | +$49,099 | #6 |
| 7 | Los Altos Police Department | Municipal | 31 | $139,740 | +$47,814 | #7 |
| 8 | Hayward Police Department | Municipal | 171 | $138,965 | +$47,039 | #8 |
| 9 | Milpitas Police Department | Municipal | 84 | $138,261 | +$46,335 | #9 |
| 10 | Los Gatos Police Department | Municipal | 34 | $132,394 | +$40,468 | #10 |
| 11 | Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office | County | 1,071 | $132,263 | +$40,338 | #11 |
| 12 | Menlo Park Police Department | Municipal | 43 | $132,036 | +$40,111 | #12 |
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