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Bryan 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.
Bryan Police Department starts at $72,134 a year — about $34.68 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $5,449 above the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $3,994 above the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Texas run about 3% below the national average, so this goes about as far as $74,321 would somewhere at average prices — $2,187 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.
How big the department isBryan Police Department reported 153 sworn officers and 33 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 1.6 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 93,434.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 Bryan says about itself
The Bryan Police Department is committed to provide superior police services to the public in order to protect life, property and freedoms secured by the Constitution. We will identify and solve problems by forming partnerships with citizens to enhance the quality of life within our community. The department prides itself on its philosophy of community-oriented policing, whose core components are a strong community partnership and open communication between the police department and its citizens.
What Bryan does
Bryan Police Department fields around 159 sworn personnel plus reserve officers across Patrol, Investigative and Support Services bureaus, with patrol working twelve-hour shifts that give a three-day weekend every fortnight. CALEA-accredited since 2006 and separately Texas Best Practices recognised, it runs its own TCOLE academy and a voluntary peer support team of sworn and non-sworn staff offering confidential counselling
Bryan’s rotation, in BlueShifts
Bryan describes the patrol division's schedule itself: 12-hour shifts on a two-week pay cycle, where the days worked in the first week are the days off in the second, giving a three-day weekend every two weeks. Shifts are permanent unless the officer requests a transfer.
The rotation template screen — enter the cycle and the start date, and you are done.
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September 2026
The agency publishes the shift length but not a named cycle. These are the 12-hour rotations departments most often build on it: Pitman, 4 on, 4 off, DuPont, Panama, 3-4-4-3.
A fortnight-long mirror pattern is exactly the sort that a paper calendar gets wrong halfway through the year. BlueShifts draws the fourteen-day cycle out as far ahead as you want to look, so the three-day weekend every second week is visible months out - useful when the shift itself is permanent and the planning is long-term.
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Where the figure comes from
Checked 19 August 2026. City of Bryan, Police Recruiting - Civil Service Pay Schedule, effective 1 October 2025 — open the source document
Their source is effective 1 October 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.
How this level compares
Where Bryan 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. Bryan starts at $72,134, so $3,994 above the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Bryan Police Department officer make?
Bryan Police Department starts a new officer on $72,134 a year, about $34.68 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 Bryan, Police Recruiting - Civil Service Pay Schedule, effective 1 October 2025.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Texas?
It ranks #80 of 151 agencies we have verified in Texas — 71 pay less, 79 pay more in the state — and #805 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $5,449 above, and against other municipal agencies $3,994 above.
What shifts do Bryan Police Department officers work?
Bryan describes the patrol division's schedule itself: 12-hour shifts on a two-week pay cycle, where the days worked in the first week are the days off in the second, giving a three-day weekend every two weeks. Shifts are permanent unless the officer requests a transfer. That is the agency's own published wording; the pattern is drawn on this page.
Compare with another department
Put Bryan 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 TX
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Bryan | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Allen Police Department | Municipal | 153 | $91,106 | +$18,972 | #241 |
| 2 | Frisco Police Department | Municipal | 270 | $90,750 | +$18,616 | #252 |
| 3 | Plano Police Department | Municipal | 400 | $90,729 | +$18,595 | #253 |
| 4 | Grand Prairie Police Department | Municipal | 287 | $90,000 | +$17,866 | #270 |
| 5 | Hurst Police Department | Municipal | 61 | $87,048 | +$14,914 | #322 |
| 6 | Lewisville Police Department | Municipal | 181 | $86,268 | +$14,134 | #335 |
| 7 | Coppell Police Department | Municipal | 60 | $84,968 | +$12,834 | #355 |
| 8 | Rockwall Police Department | Municipal | 95 | $84,448 | +$12,314 | #362 |
| 9 | Farmers Branch Police Department | Municipal | 83 | $84,440 | +$12,306 | #363 |
| 10 | The Colony Police Department | Municipal | 86 | $84,082 | +$11,948 | #371 |
| 11 | Baytown Police Department | Municipal | 172 | $84,049 | +$11,915 | #372 |
| 12 | McKinney Police Department | Municipal | 248 | $83,992 | +$11,858 | #374 |
Base pay is only part of the year
Whatever the figure above, the rotation is what decides your year — which weekends you lose, when the changeovers land, what you can plan around. Save yours once and BlueShifts shows it a year ahead, with the off-duty jobs you take and what each one paid.
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