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Bloomington 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.
Bloomington Police Department starts at $82,909 a year — about $39.86 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $14,519 above the median of the 1,681 agencies on this list, and $11,645 above the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI run about 5% above the national average, so this is worth roughly $79,095 somewhere at average prices — $3,814 less than the headline figure. Most of that is rent, at 112 against a national average of 100, where goods are 103. 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 isBloomington Police Department reported 135 sworn officers and 39 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 1.5 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 87,974.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 Bloomington says about itself
Mission: To always be respectful while keeping our community safe. Vision: To be the most respected police department. Core value: Respect, demonstrated through our compassionate and honest service.
What Bloomington does
Bloomington Police Department serves a Hennepin County city of some 83,000 south of Minneapolis, working from West Old Shakopee Road through divisions covering patrol operations, patrol special operations, investigations, professional standards and support services. Patrol Operations is the uniformed and most visible division, and also plans and manages the city's emergency procedures, assessing critical areas and coordinating relief efforts with other departments in a disaster. Five officers and their canine partners handle regular patrol work alongside specialised deployments, and a police honour guard formed in 2006, made up of nine officers from across the department serving on an extra-duty voluntary basis, represents the department at line-of-duty funerals and at the annual Police Memorial at the Minnesota State Capitol. The department belongs to LOGIS, a consortium of Minnesota local government units sharing technology, and runs a SafeCam scheme registering residents' and businesses' cameras for detectives to draw on.
Shifts at Bloomington
Bloomington's honour guard is nine officers drawn from divisions across the department, who work the assignment on an extra-duty, voluntary basis alongside their normal shifts.
Extra-duty assignments sit on top of a roster that is already full, and they are easy to lose track of across a year. BlueShifts records them beside your shifts, and its off-duty statistical calculator shows what the extra work adds up to.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 8 August 2026. City of Bloomington of — open the source document
Opened 27 April 2026; current official minimum $39.86/hour = $82,908.80
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 Bloomington 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. Bloomington starts at $82,909, so $11,622 above the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Bloomington Police Department officer make?
Bloomington Police Department starts a new officer on $82,909 a year, about $39.86 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 Bloomington of.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Minnesota?
It ranks #45 of 100 agencies we have verified in Minnesota — 55 pay less, 44 pay more in the state — and #334 of 1,681 nationally. Against the national median it is $14,519 above, and against other municipal agencies $11,645 above.
What shifts do Bloomington Police Department officers work?
Bloomington's honour guard is nine officers drawn from divisions across the department, who work the assignment on an extra-duty, voluntary basis alongside their normal shifts. That is the agency's own published wording; the pattern is drawn on this page.
Compare with another department
Put Bloomington 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 MN
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Bloomington | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blaine Police Department | Municipal | 80 | $101,733 | +$18,824 | #86 |
| 2 | Stillwater Police Department | Municipal | 26 | $94,328 | +$11,419 | #152 |
| 3 | Columbia Heights Police Department | Municipal | 29 | $93,725 | +$10,816 | #157 |
| 4 | Carver County Sheriff's Office | County | 77 | $93,683 | +$10,774 | #158 |
| 5 | Oakdale Police Department | Municipal | 39 | $93,538 | +$10,629 | #161 |
| 6 | Richfield Police Department | Municipal | 45 | $93,226 | +$10,317 | #163 |
| 7 | Maplewood Police Department | Municipal | 56 | $93,038 | +$10,130 | #167 |
| 8 | Forest Lake Police Department | Municipal | 20 | $92,789 | +$9,880 | #169 |
| 9 | Apple Valley Police Department | Municipal | 59 | $92,768 | +$9,859 | #170 |
| 10 | Coon Rapids Police Department | Municipal | 73 | $92,123 | +$9,214 | #179 |
| 11 | Saint Paul Police Department | Municipal | 562 | $91,291 | +$8,382 | #188 |
| 12 | Woodbury Police Department | Municipal | 80 | $91,187 | +$8,278 | #190 |
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