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Bexar County Sheriff's Office 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.
Bexar County Sheriff's Office starts at $61,500 a year — about $29.57 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $6,890 below the median of the 1,681 agencies on this list, and $3,874 below the median for county agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Texas run about 3% below the national average, so this goes about as far as $63,365 would somewhere at average prices — $1,865 more than the headline figure. That average hides a wide spread: utilities at 88, where goods are 98. 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.
What Bexar County says about itself
We are the thin blue line that separates chaos from society and we need your help protecting and serving the residents of Bexar County.
What Bexar County does
Bexar County Sheriff's Office was established in 1731 and is among the oldest law enforcement agencies in the nation, now the eleventh-largest sheriff's office in the United States with nearly 1,900 employees covering 1,257 square miles. Patrol deputies work sixteen districts across unincorporated Bexar County, and the office also runs the adult detention center, serves more than fifty courtrooms and handles civil process and extraditions
Where the figure comes from
Checked 20 August 2026. Bexar County Sheriff's Office — BCSO Careers, current positions (as of 1 June 2026) — open the source document
Bexar County Sheriff's Office's own recruiting site (bcsocareers.com), current positions table, listed as available as of 1 June 2026: Deputy Sheriff - Law Enforcement, full time, $5,125.00 a month = $61,500.00 a year. The county's own posting for the class requires a Basic Peace Officer Certificate from TCOLE and no prior service, so a licensed applicant with no experience enters here; certification is not experience. Detention is a separate bureau on its own scale (Detention Cadet $3,750 a month), and BCSO also runs a Deputy Sheriff - Law Enforcement Cadet class for applicants who are not yet licensed.
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 Bexar County 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. Bexar County starts at $61,500, so $3,874 below the county middle.
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How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Bexar County Sheriff's Office officer make?
Bexar County Sheriff's Office starts a new officer on $61,500 a year, about $29.57 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 Bexar County Sheriff's Office — BCSO Careers, current positions (as of 1 June 2026).
Is that good pay for a police officer in Texas?
It ranks #108 of 140 agencies we have verified in Texas — 32 pay less, 107 pay more in the state — and #1,173 of 1,681 nationally. Against the national median it is $6,890 below, and against other county agencies $3,874 below.
Compare with another department
Put Bexar County Sheriff's Office 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 TX
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Bexar | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Allen Police Department | Municipal | 153 | $91,106 | +$29,606 | #192 |
| 2 | Frisco Police Department | Municipal | 270 | $90,750 | +$29,250 | #200 |
| 3 | Plano Police Department | Municipal | 414 | $90,729 | +$29,229 | #201 |
| 4 | Grand Prairie Police Department | Municipal | 287 | $90,000 | +$28,500 | #216 |
| 5 | Hurst Police Department | Municipal | — | $87,048 | +$25,548 | #264 |
| 6 | Lewisville Police Department | Municipal | 181 | $86,268 | +$24,768 | #276 |
| 7 | Coppell Police Department | Municipal | 60 | $84,968 | +$23,468 | #293 |
| 8 | Rockwall Police Department | Municipal | 95 | $84,448 | +$22,948 | #300 |
| 9 | The Colony Police Department | Municipal | — | $84,082 | +$22,582 | #306 |
| 10 | Baytown Police Department | Municipal | — | $84,049 | +$22,549 | #307 |
| 11 | McKinney Police Department | Municipal | 248 | $83,992 | +$22,492 | #309 |
| 12 | Mesquite Police Department | Municipal | 260 | $83,869 | +$22,369 | #312 |
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