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Farmers Branch 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.
Farmers Branch Police Department starts at $84,440 a year — about $40.60 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $17,755 above the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $16,300 above the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Texas run about 3% below the national average, so this goes about as far as $87,000 would somewhere at average prices — $2,560 more than the headline figure. That average hides a wide spread: utilities at 88, 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 isFarmers Branch Police Department reported 83 sworn officers and 26 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 2.2 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 37,609.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 Farmers Branch says about itself
The mission of the Farmers Branch Police Department is to assure each citizen the opportunity to enjoy life in peace and free from criminal acts. Through a commitment to work in partnership with the citizens to provide courteous, professional services, the department will fairly and impartially carry out the mission with pride.
What Farmers Branch does
The Farmers Branch Police Department polices a 12-square-mile Dallas County city of 37,609, wedged between Interstate 35E and the LBJ Freeway north-west of Dallas, with 83 sworn officers and 26 civilian staff. It runs patrol alongside criminal investigations, a bike patrol, a K-9 unit and its own short-term jail, and has added a Drone as First Responder programme flown by its own pilots. Patrol works twelve-hour shifts, and the Department pays education, certification and language incentives on top of base.
Shifts at Farmers Branch
The Department's own FY26 hiring flyer sells the shift alongside the pay: "12-Hour Shifts", entry $84,440, top out $109,959 in seven years, a $5,000 hiring bonus, 2:1 TMRS retirement, and education, certification and language pay - and it puts the twelve-hour shift in the same list as the money, which is what a department does when the schedule is part of the offer.
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.
A twelve-hour shift buys days back, but only if you can see where they fall - the fortnight moves against the week, and by the time you are counting it out on your fingers the weekend you were promised has already been bid away. BlueShifts holds the cycle and fills the year, days and nights marked apart.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 2 September 2026. Farmers Branch Police Department — FY26 hiring flyer — "Entry: $84,440" — open the source document
Class: Police Officer, entry. The Department's own FY26 hiring flyer - its own artwork, its own recruiting domain FBTXCareers.com and its own handle @fbpdtx, published through TCOLE's document library - prices entry at $84,440 against a top out of $109,959 in seven years, with lateral entry up to the top figure depending on experience. THE $109,959 IS A CEILING AND IS NOT THE FIGURE; the entry step is. Trainee class: NO separate academy grade is priced. Prior sworn service is NOT required: the flyer prices laterals separately and by experience, which is what shows the entry figure is the no-experience step. Texas certification runs through TCOLE. A $5,000 hiring bonus, education, certification and language pay and 2:1 TMRS retirement are listed separately and are not in the base figure. The City's own recruiting page at farmersbranchtx.gov carries no figure - it renders its content through a script the fetcher cannot read - so the Department's own flyer is the published source. Department's own FY26 flyer, checked 2 September 2026.
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 Farmers Branch 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. Farmers Branch starts at $84,440, so $16,300 above the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Farmers Branch Police Department officer make?
Farmers Branch Police Department starts a new officer on $84,440 a year, about $40.60 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 Farmers Branch Police Department — FY26 hiring flyer — "Entry: $84,440".
Is that good pay for a police officer in Texas?
It ranks #9 of 151 agencies we have verified in Texas — 142 pay less, 8 pay more in the state — and #363 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $17,755 above, and against other municipal agencies $16,300 above.
What shifts do Farmers Branch Police Department officers work?
The Department's own FY26 hiring flyer sells the shift alongside the pay: "12-Hour Shifts", entry $84,440, top out $109,959 in seven years, a $5,000 hiring bonus, 2:1 TMRS retirement, and education, certification and language pay - and it puts the twelve-hour shift in the same list as the money, which is what a department does when the schedule is part of the offer. That is the agency's own published wording; the pattern is drawn on this page.
Compare with another department
Put Farmers Branch 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 TX
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Farmers | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Allen Police Department | Municipal | 153 | $91,106 | +$6,666 | #241 |
| 2 | Frisco Police Department | Municipal | 270 | $90,750 | +$6,310 | #252 |
| 3 | Plano Police Department | Municipal | 400 | $90,729 | +$6,289 | #253 |
| 4 | Grand Prairie Police Department | Municipal | 287 | $90,000 | +$5,560 | #270 |
| 5 | Hurst Police Department | Municipal | 61 | $87,048 | +$2,608 | #322 |
| 6 | Lewisville Police Department | Municipal | 181 | $86,268 | +$1,828 | #335 |
| 7 | Coppell Police Department | Municipal | 60 | $84,968 | +$528 | #355 |
| 8 | Rockwall Police Department | Municipal | 95 | $84,448 | +$8 | #362 |
| 10 | The Colony Police Department | Municipal | 86 | $84,082 | −$358 | #371 |
| 11 | Baytown Police Department | Municipal | 172 | $84,049 | −$391 | #372 |
| 12 | McKinney Police Department | Municipal | 248 | $83,992 | −$448 | #374 |
| 13 | Mesquite Police Department | Municipal | 260 | $83,869 | −$571 | #377 |
Base pay is only part of the year
Whatever the figure above, the rotation is what decides your year — which weekends you lose, when the changeovers land, what you can plan around. Save yours once and BlueShifts shows it a year ahead, with the off-duty jobs you take and what each one paid.
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