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Elko New Market 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.
Elko New Market Police Department starts at $81,640 a year — about $39.25 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $14,955 above the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $13,500 above the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Minnesota run about 1% below the national average, so this goes about as far as $82,782 would somewhere at average prices — $1,142 more than the headline figure. That average hides a wide spread: utilities at 91, where goods are 101. 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 isElko New Market Police Department reported 6 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. That is 1.1 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 5,290.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 Elko New Market says about itself
We are a model for delivering community values based public safety services, designed to grow with the community we serve. We will achieve our vision through valued employees and citizen-police partnerships, and community values, community oriented-problem solving policing and the delivery of professional public safety services will be our foundation. Our focus will be crime prevention, preparedness, community partnerships, problem solving, emergency management, safe neighbourhoods, accountability, excellence and professionalism, and we will be a community resource with high visibility, delivering fair and impartial law enforcement services.
What Elko New Market does
Elko New Market Police Department serves a small Scott County city south of the Twin Cities that the City describes as the fastest growing in Minnesota, and it is hiring to keep pace. The department builds its work on what it calls community-values-based policing — a deliberately high-visibility presence with officers interacting with residents continuously — and lists its focus as crime prevention, preparedness, community partnerships, problem solving, emergency management, safe neighbourhoods, accountability and professionalism. Out of hours, calls are answered through Scott County dispatch.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 10 August 2026. employer-controlled GovernmentJobs/NEOGOV tenancy or permitted Minnesota City Jobs posting — open the source document
$39.25/hour x 2,080 = $81,640. POST Certification of Eligibility satisfies the minimum; prior qualified experience only affects higher placement. Class: Police Officer. Trainee class: NO; minimum accepts Minnesota POST Certification of Eligibility or Minnesota Peace Officer License at hire. Permitted employer-controlled recruitment identifies the qualifying class as Police Officer/Patrol Officer and describes sworn patrol, law-enforcement, investigation, arrest, peacekeeping and/or public-safety duties.
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 Elko New Market 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. Elko New Market starts at $81,640, so $13,500 above the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Elko New Market Police Department officer make?
Elko New Market Police Department starts a new officer on $81,640 a year, about $39.25 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 employer-controlled GovernmentJobs/NEOGOV tenancy or permitted Minnesota City Jobs posting.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Minnesota?
It ranks #48 of 102 agencies we have verified in Minnesota — 54 pay less, 47 pay more in the state — and #436 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $14,955 above, and against other municipal agencies $13,500 above.
Compare with another department
Put Elko New Market 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 MN
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Elko | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blaine Police Department | Municipal | 80 | $101,733 | +$20,093 | #111 |
| 2 | Stillwater Police Department | Municipal | 26 | $94,328 | +$12,688 | #193 |
| 3 | Columbia Heights Police Department | Municipal | 29 | $93,725 | +$12,085 | #198 |
| 4 | Carver County Sheriff's Office | County | 77 | $93,683 | +$12,043 | #200 |
| 5 | Oakdale Police Department | Municipal | 39 | $93,538 | +$11,898 | #203 |
| 6 | Richfield Police Department | Municipal | 45 | $93,226 | +$11,586 | #205 |
| 7 | Maplewood Police Department | Municipal | 56 | $93,038 | +$11,398 | #209 |
| 8 | Forest Lake Police Department | Municipal | 20 | $92,789 | +$11,149 | #212 |
| 9 | Apple Valley Police Department | Municipal | 59 | $92,768 | +$11,128 | #213 |
| 10 | Coon Rapids Police Department | Municipal | 73 | $92,123 | +$10,483 | #226 |
| 11 | Saint Paul Police Department | Municipal | 562 | $91,291 | +$9,651 | #237 |
| 12 | Woodbury Police Department | Municipal | 80 | $91,187 | +$9,547 | #239 |
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