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Haltom City 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.
Haltom City Police Department starts at $82,754 a year — about $39.79 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $16,069 above the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $14,614 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 $85,263 would somewhere at average prices — $2,509 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 isHaltom City Police Department reported 112 sworn officers and 10 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 2.5 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 45,733.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 Haltom City says about itself
Patrol Officers respond to 911 calls-for-service, enforce laws, apprehend criminals, and provide services intended to promote safe and livable neighborhoods for the citizens of Haltom City.
What Haltom City does
The Haltom City Police Department serves Haltom City, Texas, in Tarrant County, a city of about 40,000 people across roughly twelve square miles, with 76 sworn officers and 23 civilian personnel. Its patrol officers answer calls for service, enforce the law and make arrests, and the Department describes itself as a progressive agency that sends its officers to numerous courses to advance their careers. It is a civil service department, and it publishes one starting salary for an applicant with no prior law enforcement experience alongside a separate lateral rate for certified officers.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 21 September 2026. City of Haltom City, Become a Haltom City Police Officer: "Starting Salary: $82,754". — open the source document
$82,754 is the City's own annual figure and no arithmetic has been applied to it. HALTOM CITY PRICES NO CADET CLASS: the page publishes one starting salary for an applicant with no prior experience, and the only other rate it names is the LATERAL rate, "Lateral applicants can start at up to $42.87/hour", which is an experienced-hire ceiling and is not the entry figure. The City's own civil service posting for 2025 carried the same measure a year earlier at "Starting Salary: $37.89/hourly ($78,813/annually)", which corroborates the class and the direction of travel but is only a second point. Excluded from the figure: TCOLE certification pay, education incentive, shift differential and overtime, which the City lists separately from base. THE CURRENT FIGURE CARRIES NO EFFECTIVE DATE. NEXT DOCUMENT: the City of Haltom City adopted budget personnel schedule or the civil service police classification pay ordinance, either of which would date this figure and supply a third point.
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 Haltom City 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. Haltom City starts at $82,754, so $14,614 above the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Haltom City Police Department officer make?
Haltom City Police Department starts a new officer on $82,754 a year, about $39.79 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 City of Haltom City, Become a Haltom City Police Officer: "Starting Salary: $82,754"..
Is that good pay for a police officer in Texas?
It ranks #20 of 151 agencies we have verified in Texas — 131 pay less, 19 pay more in the state — and #411 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $16,069 above, and against other municipal agencies $14,614 above.
Compare with another department
Put Haltom City 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 Haltom | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Allen Police Department | Municipal | 153 | $91,106 | +$8,352 | #241 |
| 2 | Frisco Police Department | Municipal | 270 | $90,750 | +$7,996 | #252 |
| 3 | Plano Police Department | Municipal | 400 | $90,729 | +$7,975 | #253 |
| 4 | Grand Prairie Police Department | Municipal | 287 | $90,000 | +$7,246 | #270 |
| 5 | Hurst Police Department | Municipal | 61 | $87,048 | +$4,294 | #322 |
| 6 | Lewisville Police Department | Municipal | 181 | $86,268 | +$3,514 | #335 |
| 7 | Coppell Police Department | Municipal | 60 | $84,968 | +$2,214 | #355 |
| 8 | Rockwall Police Department | Municipal | 95 | $84,448 | +$1,694 | #362 |
| 9 | Farmers Branch Police Department | Municipal | 83 | $84,440 | +$1,686 | #363 |
| 10 | The Colony Police Department | Municipal | 86 | $84,082 | +$1,328 | #371 |
| 11 | Baytown Police Department | Municipal | 172 | $84,049 | +$1,295 | #372 |
| 12 | McKinney Police Department | Municipal | 248 | $83,992 | +$1,238 | #374 |
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