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Farmington 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.
Farmington Police Department starts at $84,365 a year — about $40.56 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $17,680 above the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $16,225 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 $85,544 would somewhere at average prices — $1,180 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 isFarmington Police Department reported 24 sworn officers and 6 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 1.0 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 24,671.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 Farmington says about itself
The members of the Farmington Police Department will demonstrate their ethics, professionalism, and commitment to service in all aspects of our lives. Its values are ethics - maintaining the highest possible ethical standard, personally and professionally, because there is no right way to do the wrong thing; performance; law enforcement in a consistent and impartial manner without favour, malice or ill will; community service; and youth, recognising that the future of our community rests in the success or failure of our youth.
What Farmington does
Farmington Police Officers perform patrol, investigations, service and enforcement functions and enforce traffic and criminal laws.
Shifts at Farmington
Patrol is staffed by four Patrol Sergeants and 13 Patrol Officers. Patrol staff work 12 hour shifts and they provide emergency response 24/7/365.
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.
Seventeen people covering a whole city on twelves. BlueShifts lays the pattern out a year at a time so the days off are never a surprise.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 10 August 2026. employer-controlled City of Farmington NEOGOV Police Officer posting — open the source document
Their source is effective 4 June 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 Farmington 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. Farmington starts at $84,365, so $16,225 above the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Farmington Police Department officer make?
Farmington Police Department starts a new officer on $84,365 a year, about $40.56 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 City of Farmington NEOGOV Police Officer posting.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Minnesota?
It ranks #39 of 102 agencies we have verified in Minnesota — 63 pay less, 38 pay more in the state — and #364 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $17,680 above, and against other municipal agencies $16,225 above.
What shifts do Farmington Police Department officers work?
Patrol is staffed by four Patrol Sergeants and 13 Patrol Officers. Patrol staff work 12 hour shifts and they provide emergency response 24/7/365. That is the agency's own published wording; the pattern is drawn on this page.
Compare with another department
Put Farmington 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 Farmington | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blaine Police Department | Municipal | 80 | $101,733 | +$17,368 | #111 |
| 2 | Stillwater Police Department | Municipal | 26 | $94,328 | +$9,963 | #193 |
| 3 | Columbia Heights Police Department | Municipal | 29 | $93,725 | +$9,360 | #198 |
| 4 | Carver County Sheriff's Office | County | 77 | $93,683 | +$9,318 | #200 |
| 5 | Oakdale Police Department | Municipal | 39 | $93,538 | +$9,173 | #203 |
| 6 | Richfield Police Department | Municipal | 45 | $93,226 | +$8,861 | #205 |
| 7 | Maplewood Police Department | Municipal | 56 | $93,038 | +$8,674 | #209 |
| 8 | Forest Lake Police Department | Municipal | 20 | $92,789 | +$8,424 | #212 |
| 9 | Apple Valley Police Department | Municipal | 59 | $92,768 | +$8,403 | #213 |
| 10 | Coon Rapids Police Department | Municipal | 73 | $92,123 | +$7,758 | #226 |
| 11 | Saint Paul Police Department | Municipal | 562 | $91,291 | +$6,926 | #237 |
| 12 | Woodbury Police Department | Municipal | 80 | $91,187 | +$6,822 | #239 |
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