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Circleville 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.
Circleville Police Department starts at $64,979 a year — about $31.24 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $1,706 below the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $3,161 below the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Ohio run about 7% below the national average, so this goes about as far as $70,040 would somewhere at average prices — $5,061 more than the headline figure. Most of that is rent, at 73 against a national average of 100, where goods are 94. 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 isCircleville Police Department reported 18 sworn officers and 8 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 1.2 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 14,556.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 Circleville says about itself
The Mission Statement of The Circleville Police Department is to provide a safe and orderly environment in our community through professionalism, dedication, and an active partnership with the community, and give them the protection they so richly deserve.
What Circleville does
Circleville Police Department serves the seat of Pickaway County in south-central Ohio, from East Franklin Street. It is made up of a chief of police, captains, sergeants and patrolmen alongside a detectives bureau, a K-9 unit and its own dispatch center, with communications officers handling emergency calls. The department states its mission as providing a safe and orderly environment through professionalism, dedication and an active partnership with the community. It publishes an annual report on its work, runs a public alert service residents can sign up to for incidents needing awareness, and maintains a property room for unclaimed found property.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 8 August 2026. City of Circleville official Police Officer: Entry Level & — open the source document
Their source is effective 1 January 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.
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How this level compares
Where Circleville 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. Circleville starts at $64,979, so $3,161 below the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Circleville Police Department officer make?
Circleville Police Department starts a new officer on $64,979 a year, about $31.24 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 Circleville official Police Officer: Entry Level &.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Ohio?
It ranks #40 of 53 agencies we have verified in Ohio — 13 pay less, 39 pay more in the state — and #1,264 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $1,706 below, and against other municipal agencies $3,161 below.
Compare with another department
Put Circleville 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 OH
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Circleville | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Westlake Police Department | Municipal | — | $88,712 | +$23,733 | #291 |
| 2 | University Heights Police Department | Municipal | 29 | $82,259 | +$17,280 | #421 |
| 3 | Powell Police Department | Municipal | 21 | $81,426 | +$16,447 | #444 |
| 4 | Springfield Police Department | Municipal | 123 | $80,764 | +$15,784 | #468 |
| 5 | Stow Police Department | Municipal | 45 | $80,288 | +$15,309 | #486 |
| 6 | Cincinnati Police Department | Municipal | 971 | $79,359 | +$14,380 | #513 |
| 7 | Hilliard Police Department | Municipal | 63 | $79,248 | +$14,269 | #515 |
| 8 | Kettering Police Department | Municipal | 79 | $79,227 | +$14,248 | #517 |
| 9 | Canfield Police Department | Municipal | 21 | $79,002 | +$14,023 | #522 |
| 10 | Mentor Police Department | Municipal | — | $77,849 | +$12,869 | #563 |
| 11 | Dayton Police Department | Municipal | 342 | $77,411 | +$12,432 | #575 |
| 12 | West Chester Township Police Department | Municipal | 92 | $77,027 | +$12,048 | #584 |
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