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Healdsburg 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.
Healdsburg Police Department starts at $101,621 a year — about $48.86 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $33,231 above the median of the 1,681 agencies on this list, and $30,356 above the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in California run about 11% above the national average, so this is worth roughly $91,782 somewhere at average prices — $9,839 less than the headline figure. Most of that is utilities, at 159 against a national average of 100, where goods are 106. 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 isHealdsburg Police Department reported 13 sworn officers and 11 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 1.2 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 11,201.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 Healdsburg says about itself
The Healdsburg Police Department takes Pride in Protecting our Community with Integrity, Excellence and Professionalism.
What Healdsburg does
the department is responsible for protecting life and property, maintaining order, controlling and preventing crime, enforcing vehicle laws, investigating crimes, apprehending offenders, and operating a crime-prevention program
Healdsburg’s rotation, in BlueShifts
Our patrol staff works the 4/10 plan which allows for the best coverage during peak demand times and the Sergeants work a combination of the 4/10 and 12-hour shift plan.
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September 2026
This cycle has its own page: how it works, and how to build it.
Healdsburg 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 tens for officers and a mix of tens and twelves for the sergeants means one roster carries two patterns. BlueShifts holds both and shows whose day off lands where.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 13 August 2026. $8,468.39 monthly / $101,620.68 annual base. The official salary schedule dated August 3, 2026 lists Police Officer Step A at $8,468. — open the source document
$8,468.39 monthly / $101,620.68 annual base. The official salary schedule dated August 3, 2026 lists Police Officer Step A at $8,468.39 monthly and separately lists Police Officer Recruit at $8,044.97.
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 Healdsburg 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. Healdsburg starts at $101,621, so $30,334 above the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Healdsburg Police Department officer make?
Healdsburg Police Department starts a new officer on $101,621 a year, about $48.86 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 $8,468.39 monthly / $101,620.68 annual base. The official salary schedule dated August 3, 2026 lists Police Officer Step A at $8,468..
Is that good pay for a police officer in California?
It ranks #82 of 222 agencies we have verified in California — 140 pay less, 81 pay more in the state — and #90 of 1,681 nationally. Against the national median it is $33,231 above, and against other municipal agencies $30,356 above.
What shifts do Healdsburg Police Department officers work?
Our patrol staff works the 4/10 plan which allows for the best coverage during peak demand times and the Sergeants work a combination of the 4/10 and 12-hour shift plan. That is the agency's own published wording; the pattern is drawn on this page.
Compare with another department
Put Healdsburg 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 CA
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Healdsburg | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Santa Clara Police Department | Municipal | 141 | $163,619 | +$61,998 | #1 |
| 2 | Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety | Municipal | 227 | $149,443 | +$47,822 | #2 |
| 3 | Redwood City Police Department | Municipal | 83 | $147,942 | +$46,321 | #3 |
| 4 | San Jose Police Department | Municipal | 1,065 | $144,003 | +$42,383 | #4 |
| 5 | Mountain View Police Department | Municipal | 90 | $143,096 | +$41,475 | #5 |
| 6 | San Mateo Police Department | Municipal | 111 | $141,024 | +$39,403 | #6 |
| 7 | Los Altos Police Department | Municipal | 31 | $139,740 | +$38,119 | #7 |
| 8 | Hayward Police Department | Municipal | 171 | $138,965 | +$37,344 | #8 |
| 9 | Milpitas Police Department | Municipal | 84 | $138,261 | +$36,640 | #9 |
| 10 | Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office | County | 1,071 | $132,263 | +$30,642 | #10 |
| 11 | Menlo Park Police Department | Municipal | 43 | $132,036 | +$30,415 | #11 |
| 12 | Campbell Police Department | Municipal | 44 | $131,747 | +$30,127 | #12 |
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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