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Chino 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.
Chino Police Department starts at $100,005 a year — about $48.08 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $33,320 above the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $31,865 above the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in California run about 11% above the national average, so this is worth roughly $90,322 somewhere at average prices — $9,683 less than the headline figure. Most of that is utilities, at 159 against a national average of 100, where goods are 106. 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 isChino Police Department reported 122 sworn officers and 56 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 1.3 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 94,769.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 Chino says about itself
The Chino Police Department provides for the public safety response needs of the community through services that support the Department's commitment to Organizational Excellence.
What Chino does
The Chino Police Department serves the city of Chino, California, in San Bernardino County. Its sworn officers are represented by the Chino Police Officers Association, whose salary schedule the City publishes as its CalPERS publicly available pay schedule and which carries no recruit or trainee classification beneath Police Officer. The 2025-2027 agreement sets sworn pay by market survey, holding the classifications at no lower than third in total compensation against the comparison agencies and adjusting retroactively to 1 July each year.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 21 September 2026. City of Chino, AFSCME / CPOA Salary Schedule effective 07/01/2025 — Police Officer, class 4220, Step A: hourly $48.08, monthly $8,333.75, annual $100,005.00. — open the source document
$100,005.00 is the City's own annual figure for Step A of class 4220 and no arithmetic has been applied to it - the schedule prints the same rate three ways, $48.08 an hour, $8,333.75 a month and $100,005.00 a year, and the annual is the City's own. CHINO PRICES NO CADET CLASS AT ALL: the CPOA salary schedule carries no Police Recruit and no Police Officer Trainee classification anywhere on it, so Step A of Police Officer is unambiguously the sworn entry rate and there is no training rate to reject. THE FIGURE IS DATED BY THE SCHEDULE ITSELF, effective 1 July 2025 with a 3 per cent cost of living adjustment. AND IT WILL MOVE EVERY JULY BY FORMULA, WHICH IS WORTH KNOWING BEFORE IT GOES STALE: the 2025-2027 CPOA agreement sets pay by survey rather than by fixed increase - the City agrees to maintain sworn classifications at no lower than the number three ranking in total compensation, adjusted retroactively to 1 July each year - so this row should be re-read each July.
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 Chino 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. Chino starts at $100,005, so $31,865 above the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Chino Police Department officer make?
Chino Police Department starts a new officer on $100,005 a year, about $48.08 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 Chino, AFSCME / CPOA Salary Schedule effective 07/01/2025 — Police Officer, class 4220, Step A: hourly $48.08, monthly $8,333.75, annual $100,005.00..
Is that good pay for a police officer in California?
It ranks #114 of 278 agencies we have verified in California — 164 pay less, 113 pay more in the state — and #129 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $33,320 above, and against other municipal agencies $31,865 above.
Compare with another department
Put Chino 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 CA
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Chino | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Santa Clara Police Department | Municipal | 141 | $163,619 | +$63,614 | #1 |
| 2 | Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety | Municipal | 227 | $149,443 | +$49,438 | #2 |
| 3 | Redwood City Police Department | Municipal | 83 | $147,942 | +$47,937 | #3 |
| 4 | San Jose Police Department | Municipal | 1,065 | $144,003 | +$43,998 | #4 |
| 5 | Mountain View Police Department | Municipal | 90 | $143,096 | +$43,091 | #5 |
| 6 | San Mateo Police Department | Municipal | 111 | $141,024 | +$41,019 | #6 |
| 7 | Los Altos Police Department | Municipal | 31 | $139,740 | +$39,735 | #7 |
| 8 | Hayward Police Department | Municipal | 171 | $138,965 | +$38,960 | #8 |
| 9 | Milpitas Police Department | Municipal | 84 | $138,261 | +$38,256 | #9 |
| 10 | Los Gatos Police Department | Municipal | 34 | $132,394 | +$32,389 | #10 |
| 11 | Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office | County | 1,071 | $132,263 | +$32,258 | #11 |
| 12 | Menlo Park Police Department | Municipal | 43 | $132,036 | +$32,031 | #12 |
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