Home › Police pay › Maine › Freeport Police Department
Freeport 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.
Freeport Police Department starts at $69,306 a year — about $33.32 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $916 above the median of the 1,681 agencies on this list, and $1,959 below the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Maine run about 3% below the national average, so this goes about as far as $71,412 would somewhere at average prices — $2,107 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 isFreeport Police Department reported 17 sworn officers and 4 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 1.9 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 8,911.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 Freeport says about itself
The Police Department and its officers work hard to serve and protect the community.
What Freeport does
Freeport Police Department offers what the town calls a supportive environment for officers at any stage of their career, with embedded Mental Health Liaisons inside the department, a four-on three-off working week, extra-duty pay at a minimum of $75 an hour and triple pay on Christmas and Thanksgiving
Freeport’s rotation, in BlueShifts
Freeport advertises a 4-on/3-off working week, which the town presents as a work-life balance benefit alongside embedded mental health liaisons.
The rotation template screen — enter the cycle and the start date, and you are done.
WorkingOff
Every month, already filled in — no typing, however far ahead you look.
September 2026
This cycle has its own page: how it works, and how to build it.
Freeport publishes the days on and off but not which are days and which are nights. In BlueShifts you choose that yourself — every shift can be a day, a night or a 24-hour tour, and the calendar marks it with a sun, a moon or a clock.
Four on, three off sounds simple until the block slides through the calendar and the extra-duty shifts land on top of it. BlueShifts draws the cycle months ahead and keeps the extra-duty hours, paid at a minimum of $75 an hour here, counted separately.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 10 August 2026. official Town of Freeport Human Resources page — open the source document
$33.32/hour x 2,080 = $69,305.60. Employer explicitly labels this the entry-level non-certified starting rate. Class: Police Officer. Trainee class: NO, official Town Human Resources page explicitly identifies entry-level non-certified Police Officer compensation. Freeport Police Officers provide municipal law-enforcement service; official employer material distinguishes entry-level non-certified and lateral officers.
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.
BlueShifts. Plan Your Year. Own Your Time.
The shift calendar built for your rotation, off-duty work, and life on and off the clock.
Save your shift schedule once and BlueShifts fills the rest of the year in.
How this level compares
Where Freeport 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. Freeport starts at $69,306, so $1,981 below the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Freeport Police Department officer make?
Freeport Police Department starts a new officer on $69,306 a year, about $33.32 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 Freeport Human Resources page.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Maine?
It ranks #7 of 19 agencies we have verified in Maine — 12 pay less, 6 pay more in the state — and #798 of 1,681 nationally. Against the national median it is $916 above, and against other municipal agencies $1,959 below.
What shifts do Freeport Police Department officers work?
Freeport advertises a 4-on/3-off working week, which the town presents as a work-life balance benefit alongside embedded mental health liaisons. That is the agency's own published wording; the pattern is drawn on this page.
Compare with another department
Put Freeport 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 Freeport | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rockland Police Department | Municipal | 19 | $77,896 | +$8,590 | #459 |
| 2 | Biddeford Police Department | Municipal | 45 | $76,482 | +$7,176 | #494 |
| 3 | Westbrook Police Department | Municipal | 47 | $73,736 | +$4,430 | #604 |
| 4 | Falmouth Police Department | Municipal | 19 | $71,344 | +$2,038 | #704 |
| 5 | Bath Police Department | Municipal | 18 | $71,011 | +$1,706 | #721 |
| 6 | York County Sheriff's Office | County | 23 | $70,628 | +$1,323 | #741 |
| 8 | Windham Police Department | Municipal | 28 | $69,251 | −$55 | #802 |
| 9 | Bangor Police Department | Municipal | 82 | $69,181 | −$125 | #803 |
| 10 | Auburn Police Department | Municipal | 51 | $69,000 | −$306 | #815 |
| 11 | Augusta Police Department | Municipal | 44 | $67,371 | −$1,934 | #901 |
| 12 | Portland Police Department | Municipal | 131 | $65,874 | −$3,432 | #973 |
| 13 | Lewiston Police Department | Municipal | 78 | $65,624 | −$3,682 | #986 |
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.
Scan to install
