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Cudahy 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.
Cudahy Police Department starts at $66,610 a year — about $32.02 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $1,780 below the median of the 1,681 agencies on this list, and $4,655 below the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Wisconsin run about 6% below the national average, so this goes about as far as $70,790 would somewhere at average prices — $4,180 more than the headline figure. Most of that is rent, at 79 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 isCudahy Police Department reported 28 sworn officers and 8 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 1.6 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 17,572.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.
About Cudahy
Cudahy Police Department serves a Milwaukee County city of about 18,500 on the Lake Michigan shore. It dates from 1906, the year Cudahy was incorporated, when the village marshal became its first police chief alongside a single police officer; the department bought its first police car and its first motorcycle in 1916. In more recent years it has returned school resource officers to Cudahy's schools, formed the agency's first K-9 teams, and trained officers as drug recognition experts.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 13 August 2026. $66,609.71 annual minimum Current official recruitment reviewed under the project definition; trainee/lateral-only pay was not substituted. — open the source document
$66,609.71 annual minimum Current official recruitment reviewed under the project definition; trainee/lateral-only pay was not substituted.
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 Cudahy 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 | $35,006 | $71,287 | $163,619 | 1046 |
| County | $36,492 | $65,374 | $132,263 | 416 |
| Special jurisdiction | $31,200 | $60,195 | $107,954 | 69 |
| State | $33,994 | $64,998 | $102,692 | 143 |
| 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 $2,200 more than the middle municipal agency and about $8,100 more than the middle county agency and about $13,300 more than the middle special jurisdiction agency and about $8,500 more than the middle state agency and about $45,300 more than the middle territory agency. Cudahy starts at $66,610, so $4,677 below the municipal middle.
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Common questions
How much does a Cudahy Police Department officer make?
Cudahy Police Department starts a new officer on $66,610 a year, about $32.02 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 $66,609.71 annual minimum Current official recruitment reviewed under the project definition; trainee/lateral-only pay was not substituted..
Is that good pay for a police officer in Wisconsin?
It ranks #42 of 74 agencies we have verified in Wisconsin — 32 pay less, 41 pay more in the state — and #940 of 1,681 nationally. Against the national median it is $1,780 below, and against other municipal agencies $4,655 below.
Compare with another department
Put Cudahy 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 WI
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Cudahy | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Menomonee Falls Police Department | Municipal | 59 | $82,618 | +$16,008 | #339 |
| 2 | Fitchburg Police Department | Municipal | 50 | $78,790 | +$12,181 | #432 |
| 3 | Brookfield Police Department | Municipal | 80 | $78,666 | +$12,056 | #438 |
| 4 | Cedarburg Police Department | Municipal | 24 | $77,561 | +$10,952 | #469 |
| 5 | Stoughton Police Department | Municipal | 23 | $76,378 | +$9,768 | #498 |
| 6 | Waukesha County Sheriff's Office | County | 158 | $76,128 | +$9,518 | #505 |
| 7 | River Falls Police Department | Municipal | 27 | $75,525 | +$8,915 | #535 |
| 8 | Grafton Police Department | Municipal | 22 | $75,102 | +$8,492 | #555 |
| 9 | Dodge County Sheriff's Office | County | 64 | $75,088 | +$8,478 | #556 |
| 10 | St. Croix County Sheriff's Office | County | 98 | $74,695 | +$8,086 | #568 |
| 11 | Kenosha Police Department | Municipal | 231 | $74,640 | +$8,030 | #572 |
| 12 | Glendale Police Department | Municipal | 39 | $74,040 | +$7,431 | #592 |
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