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Daytona Beach Shores Public Safety 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.
Daytona Beach Shores Public Safety Department starts at $53,442 a year — about $25.69 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $13,242 below the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $14,698 below the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Florida run about 3% above the national average, so this is worth roughly $51,678 somewhere at average prices — $1,764 less than the headline figure. Most of that is rent, at 122 against a national average of 100, where goods are 98. 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 isDaytona Beach Shores Public Safety Department reported 32 sworn officers and 10 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 6.1 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 5,249.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 Daytona Beach Shores Public Safety Department says about itself
The Daytona Beach Shores Department of Public Safety is a uniquely structured agency. A cornerstone of the agency is the Operations Division, which is comprised of a cadre of full and part-time Public Safety Officers. Our Public Safety Officers are cross trained as sworn police officers, firefighters, and emergency medical technicians or paramedics.
What Daytona Beach Shores Public Safety Department does
The Daytona Beach Shores Department of Public Safety provides all police, fire and emergency medical services for the City of Daytona Beach Shores, a barrier-island city in Volusia County. Its Operations Division is a cadre of full and part-time Public Safety Officers cross-trained as police officers, firefighters and EMTs or paramedics under an operations lieutenant and sergeants, working alongside a Criminal Investigation Division, a Crime and Fire Prevention Division, a Professional Standards Division and a Support Services Division.
Shifts at Daytona Beach Shores Public Safety Department
Daytona Beach Shores prices its rates on a 2,184-hour year - a 42-hour week on 12-hour shifts - so an hourly rate at this employer is never annualised at 2,080.
The agency publishes the shift length but not a named cycle. These are the 12-hour rotations departments most often build on it: Pitman, 4 on, 4 off, DuPont, Panama, 3-4-4-3.
Forty-two hours a week is a 12-hour cycle written into the pay plan. BlueShifts counts the fortnight on the employer's own basis, which is also what makes an off-duty hour comparable to a regular one.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 1 September 2026. City of Daytona Beach Shores Employee Wage Scale, effective April 2025 - Public Safety Officer I (Police Officer / Firefighter / EMT), minimum $24.47 hourly, $53,442.48 annually — open the source document
Their source is effective 1 April 2025.
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 Daytona Beach Shores Public Safety Department 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. Daytona Beach Shores Public Safety Department starts at $53,442, so $14,698 below the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Daytona Beach Shores Public Safety Department officer make?
Daytona Beach Shores Public Safety Department starts a new officer on $53,442 a year, about $25.69 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 Daytona Beach Shores Employee Wage Scale, effective April 2025 - Public Safety Officer I (Police Officer / Firefighter / EMT), minimum $24.47 hourly, $53,442.48 annually.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Florida?
It ranks #218 of 303 agencies we have verified in Florida — 85 pay less, 217 pay more in the state — and #1,944 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $13,242 below, and against other municipal agencies $14,698 below.
What shifts do Daytona Beach Shores Public Safety Department officers work?
Daytona Beach Shores prices its rates on a 2,184-hour year - a 42-hour week on 12-hour shifts - so an hourly rate at this employer is never annualised at 2,080. That is the agency's own published wording; the pattern is drawn on this page.
Compare with another department
Put Daytona Beach Shores Public Safety 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 Daytona | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boca Raton Police Services Department | Municipal | 195 | $91,007 | +$37,565 | #244 |
| 2 | Fort Lauderdale Police Department | Municipal | 565 | $81,723 | +$28,281 | #433 |
| 3 | Plantation Police Department | Municipal | 164 | $81,000 | +$27,558 | #459 |
| 4 | Hillsboro Beach Police Department | Municipal | 15 | $80,954 | +$27,512 | #461 |
| 5 | Pinecrest Police Department | Municipal | 47 | $80,912 | +$27,469 | #464 |
| 6 | Sunny Isles Beach Police Department | Municipal | 65 | $80,000 | +$26,558 | #496 |
| 7 | Indian Creek Village Public Safety Department | Municipal | 10 | $79,850 | +$26,408 | #500 |
| 8 | Sunrise Police Department | Municipal | 190 | $79,071 | +$25,629 | #520 |
| 9 | Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office | County | 1,720 | $78,828 | +$25,386 | #526 |
| 10 | Aventura Police Department | Municipal | 91 | $78,556 | +$25,113 | #536 |
| 11 | Longboat Key Police Department | Municipal | 19 | $78,430 | +$24,988 | #543 |
| 12 | Manalapan Police Department | Municipal | 13 | $78,280 | +$24,838 | #549 |
Base pay is only part of the year
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