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Escambia 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.
Escambia County Sheriff's Office starts at $55,000 a year — about $26.44 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $11,685 below the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $8,560 below the median for county agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL run about 2% below the national average, so this goes about as far as $56,285 would somewhere at average prices — $1,285 more than the headline figure. That average hides a wide spread: utilities at 88, where goods are 96. Based on price levels for this metropolitan 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 isEscambia County Sheriff's Office reported 424 sworn officers and 287 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 Escambia County says about itself
The mission of the Escambia Sheriff's Office is to improve the quality of life and protect the property of all individuals in Escambia County by providing responsible, effective and efficient law enforcement services to prevent crime. The Sheriff's Office performs professional, efficient, effective county-wide law enforcement and crime prevention services, providing county-wide police protection including road patrol, detective investigation, correctional services, court services, crime laboratory, and community and school crime prevention programmes, and the Sheriff functions as an officer of the court in the service of documents and transportation of prisoners.
What Escambia County does
The employer says the Deputy Sheriff classification performs crime-prevention and investigation activities, and that the certified level requires completion of a Florida basic law-enforcement academy or equivalency programme and passage of the Florida State Officer Certification Exam.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 10 August 2026. Escambia County Sheriff's Office official Cadet to Deputy Sheriff (Certified) posting — open the source document
Open posting dated 8 July 2026 giving the whole ladder: Cadet I $42,580, Cadet II $47,880, Recruit $50,460, Deputy Sheriff $55,000. The Deputy Sheriff figure is the post-academy certified entry base.
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 Escambia 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. Escambia County starts at $55,000, so $8,565 below the county middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Escambia County Sheriff's Office officer make?
Escambia County Sheriff's Office starts a new officer on $55,000 a year, about $26.44 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 Escambia County Sheriff's Office official Cadet to Deputy Sheriff (Certified) posting.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Florida?
It ranks #203 of 303 agencies we have verified in Florida — 100 pay less, 202 pay more in the state — and #1,855 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $11,685 below, and against other county agencies $8,560 below.
Compare with another department
Put Escambia 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 FL
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Escambia | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boca Raton Police Services Department | Municipal | 195 | $91,007 | +$36,007 | #244 |
| 2 | Fort Lauderdale Police Department | Municipal | 565 | $81,723 | +$26,723 | #433 |
| 3 | Plantation Police Department | Municipal | 164 | $81,000 | +$26,000 | #459 |
| 4 | Hillsboro Beach Police Department | Municipal | 15 | $80,954 | +$25,954 | #461 |
| 5 | Pinecrest Police Department | Municipal | 47 | $80,912 | +$25,912 | #464 |
| 6 | Sunny Isles Beach Police Department | Municipal | 65 | $80,000 | +$25,000 | #496 |
| 7 | Indian Creek Village Public Safety Department | Municipal | 10 | $79,850 | +$24,850 | #500 |
| 8 | Sunrise Police Department | Municipal | 190 | $79,071 | +$24,071 | #520 |
| 9 | Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office | County | 1,720 | $78,828 | +$23,828 | #526 |
| 10 | Aventura Police Department | Municipal | 91 | $78,556 | +$23,556 | #536 |
| 11 | Longboat Key Police Department | Municipal | 19 | $78,430 | +$23,430 | #543 |
| 12 | Manalapan Police Department | Municipal | 13 | $78,280 | +$23,280 | #549 |
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