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Glendale 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.
Glendale Police Department starts at $73,389 a year — about $35.28 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $6,704 above the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $5,249 above the median for municipal agencies.
How big the department isGlendale Police Department reported 406 sworn officers and 199 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 1.6 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 260,498.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 Glendale says about itself
The Glendale Police Department is dedicated to protecting lives and property with integrity, courage, and respect.
What Glendale does
The Glendale Police Department is the municipal force for Glendale, Arizona, in Maricopa County, and is built around neighbourhood patrol services alongside criminal investigations, training, professional standards, technical services and public information. It hires through three separately priced entry routes - police officer recruit, Arizona lateral officer and out-of-state lateral officer - and publishes for each of them the salary, the process, the physical assessment guide, the oral board guidance and a written statement of the job elements the work demands. Sworn members are certified to AZPOST standards. The department runs a neighbourhood watch programme with block captains and publishes its own news and community pages.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 27 August 2026. Salary after graduating the academy (Police Officer), $35.28 an hour, City of Glendale police recruitment page, effective 28 December 2024. — open the source document
Their source is effective 28 December 2024.
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.
How this level compares
Where Glendale 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. Glendale starts at $73,389, so $5,249 above the municipal middle.
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How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Glendale Police Department officer make?
Glendale Police Department starts a new officer on $73,389 a year, about $35.28 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 Salary after graduating the academy (Police Officer), $35.28 an hour, City of Glendale police recruitment page, effective 28 December 2024..
Is that good pay for a police officer in Arizona?
It ranks #11 of 36 agencies we have verified in Arizona — 25 pay less, 10 pay more in the state — and #742 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $6,704 above, and against other municipal agencies $5,249 above.
Compare with another department
Put Glendale 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 AZ
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Glendale | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scottsdale Police Department | Municipal | 391 | $81,474 | +$8,084 | #440 |
| 2 | Tempe Police Department | Municipal | 353 | $79,977 | +$6,588 | #497 |
| 3 | Goodyear Police Department | Municipal | 174 | $77,147 | +$3,758 | #580 |
| 4 | Buckeye Police Department | Municipal | 133 | $76,003 | +$2,614 | #626 |
| 5 | Phoenix Police Department | Municipal | 2,490 | $75,847 | +$2,458 | #637 |
| 6 | Queen Creek Police Department | Municipal | 132 | $74,693 | +$1,304 | #689 |
| 7 | Chandler Police Department | Municipal | 348 | $74,610 | +$1,220 | #693 |
| 8 | Surprise Police Department | Municipal | 179 | $74,214 | +$825 | #707 |
| 9 | Peoria Police Department | Municipal | 234 | $74,194 | +$804 | #708 |
| 10 | Mesa Police Department | Municipal | 885 | $73,972 | +$583 | #720 |
| 12 | Casa Grande Police Department | Municipal | 82 | $72,860 | −$529 | #768 |
| 13 | Gilbert Police Department | Municipal | 310 | $71,906 | −$1,484 | #818 |
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