Blue Springs Police Department entry pay

What Blue Springs says about itself

The Blue Springs Police Department has an authorized strength of 102 sworn officers, 41 civilian employees, and 10 part-time employees.

What Blue Springs does

The Blue Springs Police Department is the municipal police agency of Blue Springs, Missouri, a city in Jackson County east of Kansas City. It operates one station and one sub-station located at a St. Johns Cemetery area fire station, and fields 87 vehicular patrol units of which 32 are marked, along with two police motorcycles. Its organization includes patrol, criminal investigations, crime prevention, youth services, a communications unit and a records unit, together with animal control and detention service functions.

Where the figure comes from

Checked 21 September 2026. The table headed "Sworn Police Officer Position Salary & Pay Scale / City of Blue Springs / Human Resources Department / FY 2025-26", printed at page 431 of the City's FY 2025-26 Adopted Budget, gives the Grade B row as "B $27.63 $36.05 $47.04" under the Hourly heading and "B $57,470.40 $74,984.00 $97,843.20" under the Annual heading, in both cases across the columns "Grade Minimum Midpoint Maximum". — open the source document
The figure is the Grade B minimum on the City of Blue Springs sworn police pay scale, published by the City's Human Resources Department inside the FY 2025-26 Adopted Budget at page 431. That page prints one grade table four times over, once each for Hourly, Monthly, Bi-Weekly and Annual, with the same column set "Grade Minimum Midpoint Maximum" each time, so the pay basis is stated outright rather than inferred: Grade B reads $27.63 hourly and $57,470.40 annually, along with $4,789.20 monthly and $2,210.40 bi-weekly, all of which reconcile at 2,080 hours a year. The budget's own authorized-position tables tie the grade to the rank, listing "Police Officer Police Operations B 47 47 47" for Police Operations and "Police Officer - K-9 Police Operations B 2 2 2", with Sergeant at C, Lieutenant at D and Captain at E, so Grade B is the police officer class and its minimum is the entry rate. The gate below Grade B is Grade A, and Grade A is the cadet grade: its row reads "A $22.00 Cadet Cadet" hourly and "A $45,760.00 Cadet Cadet" annually, the City having literally printed the word "Cadet" where the midpoint and maximum would go. That $22.00 rate is excluded here as a cadet rate. The gate above is Grade C at $41.15 hourly and $85,592.00 annually, which is the sergeant grade, so nothing sits between the cadet grade and the police officer grade. The effective period is the City's fiscal year 2025-26, which the budget states runs October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026. A reader could be misled in three ways. The preceding page, 430, carries a different and much longer scale for full-time civilian positions using numeric grades 6 through 18 plus a CWA row, and grade numbers there have nothing to do with the sworn letter grades. The part-time and seasonal scale on the same page 431 has a PT/S 8 row that also reads $22.00 hourly, which is a coincidence of value and not a police rate. And although the City has published an FY 2026-27 budget document, it is labelled Proposed rather than Adopted and contains no pay scale pages at all, so the FY 2025-26 sworn scale remains the current published schedule as of this check even though its fiscal year is near its end. The $57,470.40 is a clean base annual figure: holiday pay, premium hours, deferred compensation and incentives are not folded into it, and the page shows nothing but the grade minimum, midpoint and maximum.
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 Blue Springs sits is partly about the agency and partly about which level of policing it belongs to. The three levels do not pay the same.

How it ranks

Common questions

How much does a Blue Springs Police Department officer make?

Blue Springs Police Department starts a new officer on $57,470 a year, about $27.63 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 The table headed "Sworn Police Officer Position Salary & Pay Scale / City of Blue Springs / Human Resources Department / FY 2025-26", printed at page 431 of the City's FY 2025-26 Adopted Budget, gives the Grade B row as "B $27.63 $36.05 $47.04" under the Hourly heading and "B $57,470.40 $74,984.00 $97,843.20" under the Annual heading, in both cases across the columns "Grade Minimum Midpoint Maximum"..

Is that good pay for a police officer in Missouri?

It ranks #24 of 33 agencies we have verified in Missouri — 9 pay less, 23 pay more in the state — and #1,731 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $9,214 below, and against other municipal agencies $10,670 below.

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