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Churchill County Sheriff's Office 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.
Churchill County Sheriff's Office starts at $65,312 a year — about $31.40 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $1,373 below the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $1,752 above the median for county agencies.
How big the department isChurchill County Sheriff's Office reported 40 sworn officers and 9 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025.No rate is shown: this agency does not police a single population the FBI publishes a figure for. 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 Churchill County says about itself
The Churchill County Sheriff's Office's mission is to provide effective and efficient law enforcement and public safety services to the residents and visitors of Churchill County.
What Churchill County does
The Churchill County Sheriff's Office polices the Lahontan Valley of west-central Nevada from Fallon, the county seat, across roughly 5,000 square miles of high desert that includes the Fallon Naval Air Station ranges. It works in two divisions - an Operations Division covering patrol and investigations and a Support Division running the detention facility and civil process - and also handles concealed firearm permits and crime prevention programmes.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 22 September 2026. Churchill County Sheriff's Office Wage Tables, Exhibit A, inside the County's FY 2026-27 Pay Table Workbook: under Deputy Association, Year 2 - Fiscal Year 26/27, the row "Deputy 6200" reads Step 1 hourly 31.40, annual 65,312.00. — open the source document
$65,312 is the County's OWN annual figure for Deputy Step 1 in the current fiscal year and no arithmetic has been applied to it. DEPUTY AND DETENTION ARE PRICED SEPARATELY IN THE SAME UNIT: the Deputy Association block carries Detention 6100 at $30.44 an hour, Deputy 6200 at $31.40 and Corporal 6300 at $34.14, with the Sergeant's Association priced separately at $38.91. Detention is custody and is not the figure. No recruit, cadet, trainee or probationary class appears anywhere in the block. THE TABLE DELETES ITS BOTTOM STEP EACH YEAR, WHICH IS WHY THE RISE LOOKS BIGGER THAN THE COLA. Year 1 (FY 25/26) prices Deputy Step 1 at $30.01 and Step 2 at $30.78; Year 2 is headed "Table Reflects a 2% Increase" and "(2% COLA)" yet shows Step 1 at $31.40, which is $30.78 x 1.02 - Year 1's SECOND step, uprated. Year 3 (FY 27/28) confirms the pattern: it is headed "Table Reflects a 0% Increase over FY 26-27 Paytables and Step 1 is" deleted, and every figure in it is the Year 2 table moved one column left. So the scale is being compressed from the bottom, not simply uprated, and comparing Step 1 to Step 1 across years overstates the raise. Year 1 was headed "Table Reflects a 5% Increase" made up of "4.375% PERS and 0.6..." per cent COLA. Excluded from the figure: Steps 2 to 6, which reach $35.51; Corporal and Sergeant; and the Detention line. THE WORKBOOK IS THE COUNTY'S OWN AND IS DATED ON ITS FACE - the job-title listing inside it is headed "Job Titles with Ranges (Effective July 6, 2026)" - but it is published as a scanned image with no text layer, so the figures were read from the rendered page.
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 Churchill County 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. Churchill County starts at $65,312, so $1,747 above the county middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Churchill County Sheriff's Office officer make?
Churchill County Sheriff's Office starts a new officer on $65,312 a year, about $31.40 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 Churchill County Sheriff's Office Wage Tables, Exhibit A, inside the County's FY 2026-27 Pay Table Workbook: under Deputy Association, Year 2 - Fiscal Year 26/27, the row "Deputy 6200" reads Step 1 hourly 31.40, annual 65,312.00..
Is that good pay for a police officer in Nevada?
It ranks #11 of 26 agencies we have verified in Nevada — 15 pay less, 10 pay more in the state — and #1,238 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $1,373 below, and against other county agencies $1,752 above.
Compare with another department
Put Churchill County Sheriff's Office 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 NV
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Churchill | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nevada Gaming Control Board — Enforcement Division | State | 63 | $102,692 | +$37,380 | #103 |
| 2 | Boulder City Police Department | Municipal | 35 | $75,941 | +$10,629 | #633 |
| 3 | Washoe County Sheriff's Office | County | 465 | $75,296 | +$9,984 | #661 |
| 4 | Sparks Police Department | Municipal | 122 | $74,360 | +$9,048 | #703 |
| 5 | Henderson Police Department | Municipal | 534 | $71,885 | +$6,573 | #820 |
| 6 | Reno Police Department | Municipal | 336 | $68,890 | +$3,578 | #999 |
| 7 | North Las Vegas Police Department | Municipal | 315 | $68,099 | +$2,787 | #1,048 |
| 8 | Nevada State Police — Highway Patrol | State | — | $67,939 | +$2,627 | #1,061 |
| 9 | Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department | Municipal | 3,226 | $67,662 | +$2,350 | #1,081 |
| 10 | Douglas County Sheriff's Office | County | 104 | $66,851 | +$1,539 | #1,131 |
| 12 | Lyon County Sheriff's Office | County | 63 | $64,764 | −$548 | #1,278 |
| 13 | Clark County Office of Public Safety | Municipal | — | $64,022 | −$1,290 | #1,316 |
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