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Caguas Municipal Police 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.
Caguas Municipal Police starts at $28,236 a year — about $13.57 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $40,154 below the median of the 1,681 agencies on this list, and level with the median for territory agencies.
About Caguas Municipal
The Policía Municipal de Caguas polices Puerto Rico's fifth-largest municipality, in the Valle del Turabo south of San Juan, with a stated mission of preventing violence and crime so that residents and visitors can enjoy the city's streets, parks and public areas in tranquility. The force runs on the uniform five-rank system — cadete, policía municipal, sargento, teniente and capitán — under the municipality's own classification plan, and is backed by the Centro de Control del Sistema de Vigilancia Virtual, the municipal command center that monitors security cameras placed across the city's zones.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 19 August 2026. Municipio Autónomo de Caguas — Capítulo 31, Plan de Clasificación y Retribución en el Servicio de Rango (2022), Libro de Recursos Humanos — open the source document
The municipality's own adopted classification and retribution plan for the rank service assigns the Policía Municipal class to Escala 2, whose stated minimum is $2,353 a month; $28,236 is that figure annualised (x12). The Cadete rate of $1,850 is the academy class and is excluded under the post-academy rule. Checked 19 August 2026
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 Caguas Municipal 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. Caguas Municipal starts at $28,236, so $0 above the territory middle.
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Common questions
How much does a Caguas Municipal Police officer make?
Caguas Municipal Police starts a new officer on $28,236 a year, about $13.57 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 Municipio Autónomo de Caguas — Capítulo 31, Plan de Clasificación y Retribución en el Servicio de Rango (2022), Libro de Recursos Humanos.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Puerto Rico?
It ranks #3 of 5 agencies we have verified in Puerto Rico — 2 pay less, 2 pay more in the state — and #1,677 of 1,681 nationally. Against the national median it is $40,154 below, and against other territory agencies level with.
The agencies either side of it
Other agencies in PR
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Caguas | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Puerto Rico Police Bureau | Territory | — | $43,354 | +$15,118 | #1,642 |
| 2 | San Juan Municipal Police | Territory | 644 | $32,820 | +$4,584 | #1,675 |
| 4 | San Lorenzo Municipal Police | Territory | 15 | $25,200 | −$3,036 | #1,678 |
| 5 | Coamo Municipal Police | Territory | 15 | $24,000 | −$4,236 | #1,679 |
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