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Crown Point 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.
Crown Point Police Department starts at $59,034 a year — about $28.38 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $7,651 below the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $9,106 below the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Indiana run about 7% below the national average, so this goes about as far as $63,253 would somewhere at average prices — $4,220 more than the headline figure. Most of that is rent, at 74 against a national average of 100, where goods are 96. 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 isCrown Point Police Department reported 98 sworn officers and 7 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 2.8 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 35,378.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 Crown Point says about itself
The mission of the Crown Point Police Department is to enhance the quality of life in the community by working together with the Crown Point community, and within the guidance of the U.S. Constitution to enforce the laws, preserve the public peace, reduce fear and provide for a safer place for all to live, work and play.
What Crown Point does
The Crown Point Police Department serves the city of Crown Point, Indiana, in Lake County, south of Gary. It works its patrol on twelve-hour shifts with a two-month rotation from days to nights, and publishes one starting pay with a step ninety days after field training above it. The Department describes itself as proud to serve the citizens of the city through many divisions staffed by sworn officers and civilians alike.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 21 September 2026. City of Crown Point, Crown Point Police Department Accepting Applications: "Starting pay of $59,033.52". — open the source document
$59,033.52 is the City's own annual figure and no arithmetic has been applied to it. CROWN POINT PRICES NO CADET CLASS: the notice publishes one starting pay and names no academy, recruit or pre-service rate beneath it. The higher figure on the same notice is a step ABOVE entry and is gated on FIELD TRAINING, not on the academy - "Eligible promotion 90 days after field training to $67,466.88" - so it is a time-and-completion step of the same ladder rather than the post-academy rate, and the starting figure is what a new officer is paid. NAME TRAP, AND IT BIT ONCE: the City's "Now Hiring" page carries FIRE department rates, $71,065.80 probationary and $81,218.28, which are not police figures and must never be read as this Department's. THE FIGURE CARRIES NO EFFECTIVE DATE. NEXT DOCUMENT: the City of Crown Point annual salary ordinance, which Indiana cities re-adopt every year and which would supply three or more dated points.
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 Crown Point 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. Crown Point starts at $59,034, so $9,106 below the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Crown Point Police Department officer make?
Crown Point Police Department starts a new officer on $59,034 a year, about $28.38 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 Crown Point, Crown Point Police Department Accepting Applications: "Starting pay of $59,033.52"..
Is that good pay for a police officer in Indiana?
It ranks #36 of 46 agencies we have verified in Indiana — 10 pay less, 35 pay more in the state — and #1,625 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $7,651 below, and against other municipal agencies $9,106 below.
Compare with another department
Put Crown Point 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 IN
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Crown | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bloomington Police Department | Municipal | 95 | $81,234 | +$22,200 | #452 |
| 2 | South Bend Police Department | Municipal | 246 | $80,240 | +$21,206 | #488 |
| 3 | MSD Wayne Township School Police Department | Special jurisdiction | — | $77,700 | +$18,666 | #566 |
| 4 | Columbus Police Department | Municipal | 88 | $74,984 | +$15,950 | #679 |
| 5 | Fishers Police Department | Municipal | 124 | $74,560 | +$15,526 | #695 |
| 6 | Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department | Municipal | — | $74,459 | +$15,425 | #701 |
| 7 | Fort Wayne Police Department | Municipal | 503 | $73,449 | +$14,415 | #740 |
| 8 | Lafayette Police Department | Municipal | 142 | $72,539 | +$13,505 | #787 |
| 9 | West Lafayette Police Department | Municipal | 47 | $72,391 | +$13,357 | #792 |
| 10 | Purdue University Police Department | Special jurisdiction | — | $72,137 | +$13,103 | #804 |
| 11 | Carmel Police Department | Municipal | 147 | $72,000 | +$12,966 | #813 |
| 12 | Indiana State Police | State | 1,171 | $70,000 | +$10,966 | #938 |
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