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Crestview 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.
Crestview Police Department starts at $50,378 a year — about $24.22 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $16,307 below the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $17,762 below the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL run about 3% below the national average, so this goes about as far as $51,919 would somewhere at average prices — $1,541 more than the headline figure. That average hides a wide spread: utilities at 89, where goods are 96. Based on price levels for this metropolitan 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 isCrestview Police Department reported 46 sworn officers and 28 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 1.5 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 31,585.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 Crestview says about itself
The dedicated officers of the Crestview Police Department are committed to providing the citizens of the City of Crestview with the very best law enforcement services possible. We strongly believe in community-oriented public service and we are continually striving to cultivate more community involvement in our efforts to keep Crestview a safe place to live, work and visit.
What Crestview does
The City describes the job as general-duty police work enforcing laws and ordinances, with officers protecting the public, detecting and investigating crime, maintaining law and order, patrolling assigned areas and apprehending violators.
Shifts at Crestview
The Crestview Police Department operates two Patrol Platoons - 'A' Platoon and 'B' Platoon. Each Patrol Platoon consists of two individual Patrol Squads.
Two platoons split into squads is a rotation where the squad decides your days and the platoon decides your half of the clock. BlueShifts holds both and lays out the year.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 10 August 2026. City of Crestview official Police Officer posting — open the source document
Continuous posting dated 6 June 2024; $24.22/hour with the annual figure published on the posting as $50,377.60.
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 Crestview 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. Crestview starts at $50,378, so $17,762 below the municipal middle.
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Common questions
How much does a Crestview Police Department officer make?
Crestview Police Department starts a new officer on $50,378 a year, about $24.22 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 Crestview official Police Officer posting.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Florida?
It ranks #247 of 303 agencies we have verified in Florida — 56 pay less, 246 pay more in the state — and #2,062 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $16,307 below, and against other municipal agencies $17,762 below.
What shifts do Crestview Police Department officers work?
The Crestview Police Department operates two Patrol Platoons - 'A' Platoon and 'B' Platoon. Each Patrol Platoon consists of two individual Patrol Squads. That is the agency's own published wording; the pattern is drawn on this page.
Compare with another department
Put Crestview 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 FL
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Crestview | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boca Raton Police Services Department | Municipal | 195 | $91,007 | +$40,629 | #244 |
| 2 | Fort Lauderdale Police Department | Municipal | 565 | $81,723 | +$31,345 | #433 |
| 3 | Plantation Police Department | Municipal | 164 | $81,000 | +$30,622 | #459 |
| 4 | Hillsboro Beach Police Department | Municipal | 15 | $80,954 | +$30,576 | #461 |
| 5 | Pinecrest Police Department | Municipal | 47 | $80,912 | +$30,534 | #464 |
| 6 | Sunny Isles Beach Police Department | Municipal | 65 | $80,000 | +$29,622 | #496 |
| 7 | Indian Creek Village Public Safety Department | Municipal | 10 | $79,850 | +$29,472 | #500 |
| 8 | Sunrise Police Department | Municipal | 190 | $79,071 | +$28,693 | #520 |
| 9 | Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office | County | 1,720 | $78,828 | +$28,450 | #526 |
| 10 | Aventura Police Department | Municipal | 91 | $78,556 | +$28,178 | #536 |
| 11 | Longboat Key Police Department | Municipal | 19 | $78,430 | +$28,053 | #543 |
| 12 | Manalapan Police Department | Municipal | 13 | $78,280 | +$27,902 | #549 |
Base pay is only part of the year
Whatever the figure above, the rotation is what decides your year — which weekends you lose, when the changeovers land, what you can plan around. Save yours once and BlueShifts shows it a year ahead, with the off-duty jobs you take and what each one paid.
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