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Door County Sheriff's Office 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.
Door County Sheriff's Office starts at $60,507 a year — about $29.09 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $6,178 below the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $3,052 below the median for county agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in rural Wisconsin run about 10% below the national average, so this goes about as far as $67,548 would somewhere at average prices — $7,040 more than the headline figure. Most of that is rent, at 63 against a national average of 100, where goods are 94. Based on price levels for the non-metropolitan part of this state, because this agency is outside every 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 isDoor County Sheriff's Office reported 62 sworn officers and 5 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025.No rate is shown: this agency does not police a single population the FBI publishes a figure for. 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 Door County says about itself
We place a high priority on maintaining professionalism and commitment to our duties. We are committed to working collaboratively with the community to improve the quality of life, prevent and reduce crime, and provide excellence in law enforcement services. The office's divisions include patrol, jail, investigation, school resource officers, K9, a professional standards division and a reserve division, with specialty teams covering CERT, crash investigation, crisis intervention and the department drone.
What Door County does
Door County Sheriff's Office polices the peninsula between Green Bay and Lake Michigan, where 1,888 of the county's 2,370 square miles are water and the shoreline runs 298 miles — more than any other county in Wisconsin. It has primary jurisdiction over eleven unincorporated towns and four villages as well as the open water. Its patrol division runs 23 uniformed deputies, four investigators, three school resource officers and ten reserve deputies, with uniformed deputies assigned to one of three shifts under a road sergeant and a K-9 deputy working an overlapping cover shift. A marine unit of five boat operators patrols just over 1,800 square miles of navigable water.
Shifts at Door County
Door County's uniformed deputies are assigned to one of three shifts, each supervised by a road sergeant, with a K-9 deputy working an overlapping cover shift.
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Where the figure comes from
Checked 8 August 2026. Wisconsin Department of Justice WILENET official employment posting — — open the source document
Current official recruitment; salary range $29.09-$33.73
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 Door County 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. Door County starts at $60,507, so $3,058 below the county middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Door County Sheriff's Office officer make?
Door County Sheriff's Office starts a new officer on $60,507 a year, about $29.09 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 Wisconsin Department of Justice WILENET official employment posting —.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Wisconsin?
It ranks #70 of 81 agencies we have verified in Wisconsin — 11 pay less, 69 pay more in the state — and #1,533 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $6,178 below, and against other county agencies $3,052 below.
What shifts do Door County Sheriff's Office officers work?
Door County's uniformed deputies are assigned to one of three shifts, each supervised by a road sergeant, with a K-9 deputy working an overlapping cover shift. That is the agency's own published wording; the pattern is drawn on this page.
Compare with another department
Put Door County Sheriff's Office 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 Door | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Menomonee Falls Police Department | Municipal | 59 | $82,618 | +$22,110 | #414 |
| 2 | Fitchburg Police Department | Municipal | 50 | $78,790 | +$18,283 | #527 |
| 3 | Brookfield Police Department | Municipal | 80 | $78,666 | +$18,158 | #533 |
| 4 | Cedarburg Police Department | Municipal | 24 | $77,561 | +$17,054 | #571 |
| 5 | Stoughton Police Department | Municipal | 23 | $76,378 | +$15,870 | #607 |
| 6 | Waukesha County Sheriff's Office | County | 158 | $76,128 | +$15,621 | #614 |
| 7 | River Falls Police Department | Municipal | 27 | $75,525 | +$15,018 | #647 |
| 8 | Wisconsin State Patrol | State | 445 | $75,462 | +$14,955 | #650 |
| 9 | Grafton Police Department | Municipal | 22 | $75,102 | +$14,595 | #672 |
| 10 | Dodge County Sheriff's Office | County | 64 | $75,088 | +$14,581 | #673 |
| 11 | St. Croix County Sheriff's Office | County | 98 | $74,695 | +$14,188 | #688 |
| 12 | Kenosha Police Department | Municipal | 231 | $74,640 | +$14,133 | #692 |
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