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Falmouth 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.
Falmouth Police Department starts at $71,344 a year — about $34.30 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $2,954 above the median of the 1,681 agencies on this list, and $80 above the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Maine run about 3% below the national average, so this goes about as far as $73,513 would somewhere at average prices — $2,169 more than the headline figure. That average hides a wide spread: utilities at 135, where goods are 97. 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 isFalmouth Police Department reported 19 sworn officers and 9 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 1.5 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 13,033.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 Falmouth says about itself
The Police Department strives to provide service, leadership, protection, and community involvement to our citizens, who, in partnership with us, work together to make the Town of Falmouth a safer and more pleasant community in which to live.
What Falmouth does
Falmouth Police Department runs the Falmouth Public Safety Communications Center, which has dispatched for the town of Yarmouth since 2010 and provides 24/7 police, fire and EMS communications to three communities with eight full-time and four reserve dispatchers working rotating eight-hour shifts
Where the figure comes from
Checked 10 August 2026. official Town of Falmouth Police Department Information & Hiring Process — open the source document
$34.30/hour x 2,080 = $71,344. Applicant minimums are age, citizenship and high-school education; lateral entry is separately identified. Class: Patrol Officer / Police Officer. Trainee class: NO, official hiring page accepts ordinary Police Officer candidates and uses MCJA entrance testing rather than requiring existing certification. Officers patrol, prevent and investigate crime, apprehend offenders, enforce traffic law and provide emergency services.
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 Falmouth 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. Falmouth starts at $71,344, so $57 above the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Falmouth Police Department officer make?
Falmouth Police Department starts a new officer on $71,344 a year, about $34.30 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 official Town of Falmouth Police Department Information & Hiring Process.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Maine?
It ranks #4 of 19 agencies we have verified in Maine — 15 pay less, 3 pay more in the state — and #704 of 1,681 nationally. Against the national median it is $2,954 above, and against other municipal agencies $80 above.
Compare with another department
Put Falmouth 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 ME
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Falmouth | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rockland Police Department | Municipal | 19 | $77,896 | +$6,552 | #459 |
| 2 | Biddeford Police Department | Municipal | 45 | $76,482 | +$5,138 | #494 |
| 3 | Westbrook Police Department | Municipal | 47 | $73,736 | +$2,392 | #604 |
| 5 | Bath Police Department | Municipal | 18 | $71,011 | −$333 | #721 |
| 6 | York County Sheriff's Office | County | 23 | $70,628 | −$716 | #741 |
| 7 | Freeport Police Department | Municipal | 17 | $69,306 | −$2,038 | #798 |
| 8 | Windham Police Department | Municipal | 28 | $69,251 | −$2,093 | #802 |
| 9 | Bangor Police Department | Municipal | 82 | $69,181 | −$2,163 | #803 |
| 10 | Auburn Police Department | Municipal | 51 | $69,000 | −$2,344 | #815 |
| 11 | Augusta Police Department | Municipal | 44 | $67,371 | −$3,973 | #901 |
| 12 | Portland Police Department | Municipal | 131 | $65,874 | −$5,470 | #973 |
| 13 | Lewiston Police Department | Municipal | 78 | $65,624 | −$5,720 | #986 |
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