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Hall County Sheriff's Office 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.
Hall County Sheriff's Office starts at $63,365 a year — about $30.46 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $3,320 below the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $195 below the median for county agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Georgia run about 4% below the national average, so this goes about as far as $65,804 would somewhere at average prices — $2,439 more than the headline figure. Most of that is rent, at 89 against a national average of 100, where goods are 99. 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 isHall County Sheriff's Office reported 283 sworn officers and 159 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025.No rate is shown: this agency does not police a single population the FBI publishes a figure for. 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 Hall County says about itself
The Hall County Sheriff's Office provides full law enforcement services to a population of more than 184,000 citizens living across 394 square miles.
What Hall County does
The Hall County Sheriff's Office polices north-east Georgia from Gainesville, at the head of Lake Lanier, serving more than 184,000 people across 394 square miles. It is built as four bureaus. The Enforcement Bureau, under Chief Deputy Kevin Head, holds Uniform Patrol and Criminal Investigations; the Administrative Bureau, under Major Chris Matthews, holds Court Services, the Jail and Warrants/Specialized Services. The jail is the largest division in the office, with 200 officers and clerks. Patrol deputies work 12.25-hour tours on a fortnightly two-two-three cycle, days or nights, and the office runs specialised teams including SWAT, a dive team and an honor guard, each carrying its own pay incentive. Sheriff Gerald Couch leads it.
Hall County’s rotation, in BlueShifts
Must be able to work a minimum of 171 hours per month on either day or night 12.25 hour shifts (2 on, 2 off, 3 on, 2 off, 2 on, 3 off) or other rotating type shift as needed.
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September 2026
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Where the figure comes from
Checked 22 September 2026. Hall County Sheriff's Office, Benefits & Pay, under Starting Pay: "Patrol Division Deputy Starting pay - $63,365 annually. Duties are the same as Deputy (above). Qualified deputies who are hired into the Uniform Patrol Division receive the annual starting pay incentive reflected above." The same list gives "Deputy Starting pay - $57,135 annually" and "Jailer Starting pay - $51,762 annually". — open the source document
$63,365 is printed as an annual by the Sheriff's Office. THREE STARTING PAYS ARE PUBLISHED SIDE BY SIDE AND THE CHOICE BETWEEN THEM IS THE WHOLE OF THIS NOTE. Jailer at $51,762 is out at once: the office's own hiring FAQ classes the jailer as the "non-certified entry level" post and the deputy as "certified", so the jailer is not a sworn patrol class. That leaves Deputy at $57,135 and Patrol Division Deputy at $63,365, and the office says plainly that the second is the first with an assignment premium folded in - "Duties are the same as Deputy (above). Qualified deputies who are hired into the Uniform Patrol Division receive the annual starting pay incentive reflected above." THE PATROL FIGURE IS THE ONE TAKEN, for two reasons. It is published as a STARTING PAY for a named class, in the same list and the same form as the other two, not as an hourly add-on of the kind excluded elsewhere - Hall's own hourly extras, the bilingual, specialised-unit and night-shift differentials, are listed separately under Benefits and are excluded here as usual. And it is the figure that matches the rest of the row: the rotation recorded against this agency is the Uniform Patrol rotation, and pricing a patrol roster with a court-services salary would describe nobody. $57,135 IS THE FIGURE FOR A DEPUTY WHO IS NOT IN PATROL - court services, warrants, civil process - and a reader looking at the same page will see it, so it is stated here rather than buried. NEITHER FIGURE IS DATED ANYWHERE. The office also warns that "Officers with experience or training could start at a higher rate", which is the lateral side and does not move the floor: these are the starting rates before any credit for prior service.
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 Hall County 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. Hall County starts at $63,365, so $200 below the county middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Hall County Sheriff's Office officer make?
Hall County Sheriff's Office starts a new officer on $63,365 a year, about $30.46 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 Hall County Sheriff's Office, Benefits & Pay, under Starting Pay: "Patrol Division Deputy Starting pay - $63,365 annually. Duties are the same as Deputy (above). Qualified deputies who are hired into the Uniform Patrol Division receive the annual starting pay incentive reflected above." The same list gives "Deputy Starting pay - $57,135 annually" and "Jailer Starting pay - $51,762 annually"..
Is that good pay for a police officer in Georgia?
It ranks #8 of 80 agencies we have verified in Georgia — 72 pay less, 7 pay more in the state — and #1,359 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $3,320 below, and against other county agencies $195 below.
What shifts do Hall County Sheriff's Office officers work?
Must be able to work a minimum of 171 hours per month on either day or night 12.25 hour shifts (2 on, 2 off, 3 on, 2 off, 2 on, 3 off) or other rotating type shift as needed. That is the agency's own published wording; the pattern is drawn on this page.
Compare with another department
Put Hall County Sheriff's Office 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 GA
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Hall | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chamblee Police Department | Municipal | 68 | $73,733 | +$10,368 | #729 |
| 2 | Sandy Springs Police Department | Municipal | 149 | $71,686 | +$8,321 | #836 |
| 3 | Georgia Bureau of Investigation | State | 338 | $64,977 | +$1,612 | #1,265 |
| 4 | Duluth Police Department | Municipal | 57 | $64,755 | +$1,390 | #1,279 |
| 5 | Garden City Police Department | Municipal | 35 | $64,072 | +$707 | #1,314 |
| 6 | Georgia State Patrol | State | — | $63,684 | +$319 | #1,336 |
| 7 | South Fulton Police Department | Municipal | 213 | $63,440 | +$75 | #1,354 |
| 9 | Roswell Police Department | Municipal | 154 | $62,462 | −$903 | #1,413 |
| 10 | Dunwoody Police Department | Municipal | 66 | $62,301 | −$1,064 | #1,428 |
| 11 | Savannah Police Department | Municipal | 425 | $61,989 | −$1,376 | #1,450 |
| 12 | Alpharetta Police Department | Municipal | 105 | $61,100 | −$2,265 | #1,495 |
| 13 | DeKalb County Police Department | County | 525 | $61,000 | −$2,365 | #1,504 |
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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