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Clarkstown 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.
Clarkstown Police Department starts at $64,783 a year — about $31.15 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $1,902 below the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $3,357 below the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in New York run about 8% above the national average, so this is worth roughly $60,028 somewhere at average prices — $4,755 less than the headline figure. Most of that is utilities, at 134 against a national average of 100, where goods are 107. 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.
What Clarkstown says about itself
The Clarkstown Police Department has 161 sworn police officers and 70 civilians and crossing guards.
What Clarkstown does
The Clarkstown Police Department is the town police agency for the Town of Clarkstown in Rockland County, New York, with 161 sworn officers.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 20 September 2026. Town of Clarkstown Town Board, Resolutions 61, 63, 64 and 65-2026 (13 January 2026), appointing temporary Police Officers while attending the Police Academy — open the source document
Effective 30 January 2026, the current annual salary for a new officer while attending the Police Academy, as set in four identical Town Board appointments. *** FLAGGED 20 SEPTEMBER 2026 - THIS ROW IS CARRYING AN ACADEMY RATE. *** The note above says so in its own words: $64,783 is the annual salary for a new officer WHILE ATTENDING THE POLICE ACADEMY, set in four identical Town Board appointments effective 30 January 2026. Under the standing rule the figure should be the sworn officer's step on completing the academy, not the rate during it - the same correction applied this pass to West Virginia State Police, Knoxville and Bernalillo County. NOTHING HAS BEEN SUBSTITUTED because the post-academy step has not been found: the Department's own recruitment page lists benefits, longevity and night differential but no figures at all, and the Town's Personnel Downloads page - which is where a PBA salary schedule would sit - renders its file list only in JavaScript and returns an empty browser notice to a plain fetch. NEXT DOCUMENTS, IN ORDER: (1) the Clarkstown PBA agreement on that Personnel Downloads page, WHICH NEEDS A BROWSER; (2) a Town Board resolution adopting the police salary schedule, on the same iqm2 document system the current figure came from; (3) the Town's adopted budget. A five-year PBA contract has been publicly reported, so a dated schedule exists.
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 Clarkstown 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. Clarkstown starts at $64,783, so $3,357 below the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Clarkstown Police Department officer make?
Clarkstown Police Department starts a new officer on $64,783 a year, about $31.15 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 Town of Clarkstown Town Board, Resolutions 61, 63, 64 and 65-2026 (13 January 2026), appointing temporary Police Officers while attending the Police Academy.
Is that good pay for a police officer in New York?
It ranks #12 of 27 agencies we have verified in New York — 15 pay less, 11 pay more in the state — and #1,276 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $1,902 below, and against other municipal agencies $3,357 below.
Compare with another department
Put Clarkstown 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 NY
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Clarkstown | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New York State Department of Financial Services — Investigations | State | — | $86,681 | +$21,898 | #328 |
| 2 | New York State Police | State | 5,373 | $82,608 | +$17,825 | #415 |
| 3 | New York State Park Police | State | 269 | $73,796 | +$9,013 | #726 |
| 4 | Onondaga County Sheriff's Office | County | 217 | $71,764 | +$6,981 | #830 |
| 5 | Yonkers Police Department | Municipal | 625 | $70,229 | +$5,446 | #923 |
| 6 | Erie County Sheriff's Office | County | 175 | $69,274 | +$4,491 | #974 |
| 7 | Livingston County Sheriff's Office | County | 66 | $67,808 | +$3,025 | #1,067 |
| 8 | New York State Department of Environmental Conservation — Forest Rangers | State | — | $67,796 | +$3,013 | #1,068 |
| 9 | Yates County Sheriff's Office | County | 27 | $66,389 | +$1,606 | #1,170 |
| 10 | Hempstead Village Police Department | Municipal | 128 | $65,254 | +$471 | #1,240 |
| 11 | Albany Police Department | Municipal | 269 | $65,066 | +$283 | #1,252 |
| 13 | Rochester Police Department | Municipal | 622 | $63,812 | −$971 | #1,331 |
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