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Heyburn 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.
Heyburn Police Department starts at $56,160 a year — about $27.00 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $12,230 below the median of the 1,681 agencies on this list, and $15,104 below the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Idaho run about 5% below the national average, so this goes about as far as $58,810 would somewhere at average prices — $2,650 more than the headline figure. Most of that is utilities, at 70 against a national average of 100, where goods are 96. 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 isHeyburn Police Department reported 6 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. That is 1.6 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 3,763.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 Heyburn says about itself
The Heyburn Police Department strives to provide a sense of safety and security for all people through professional and proactive policing.
What Heyburn does
The Heyburn Police Department states that it provides 24-hour coverage throughout the city, responds to emergency and non-emergency calls, investigates criminal activity, enforces state law and city ordinances, conducts proactive patrols, and enforces traffic laws.
Heyburn’s rotation, in BlueShifts
With two alternating patrol teams working rotating shifts: One team works 4 days on with 3 days off followed by 3 days on with 4 days off. Our officers work 12-hour shifts with the occasional 8-hour shift. Day (0600-1800), Swing (1500-0300), Graveyard (1800-0600).
The rotation template screen — enter the cycle and the start date, and you are done.
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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.
Heyburn 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.
A 4/3 then 3/4 pattern on 12-hour tours runs on a fortnight, not a week, so the days off move every cycle and a paper calendar stops helping by the second month. BlueShifts builds the fortnight once and fills in every month ahead.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 14 August 2026. City of Heyburn / Heyburn Police Department — Police Officer — Entry level — open the source document
New wage scale effective October 1, 2025 | Class: Police Officer — Entry level | Post-academy: the source does not distinguish | Specific official City recruitment page publishes Entry level pay $27.00/hour and separately states Lateral pay starts at $28.35/hour. Annual bracket is arithmetic from the employer's published hourly rate.
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 Heyburn 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. Heyburn starts at $56,160, so $15,127 below the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Heyburn Police Department officer make?
Heyburn Police Department starts a new officer on $56,160 a year, about $27.00 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 Heyburn / Heyburn Police Department — Police Officer — Entry level.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Idaho?
It ranks #23 of 51 agencies we have verified in Idaho — 28 pay less, 22 pay more in the state — and #1,393 of 1,681 nationally. Against the national median it is $12,230 below, and against other municipal agencies $15,104 below.
What shifts do Heyburn Police Department officers work?
With two alternating patrol teams working rotating shifts: One team works 4 days on with 3 days off followed by 3 days on with 4 days off. Our officers work 12-hour shifts with the occasional 8-hour shift. Day (0600-1800), Swing (1500-0300), Graveyard (1800-0600). That is the agency's own published wording; the pattern is drawn on this page.
Compare with another department
Put Heyburn 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 ID
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Heyburn | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sun Valley Police Department | Municipal | — | $75,005 | +$18,845 | #558 |
| 2 | Blaine County Sheriff's Office | County | 20 | $74,526 | +$18,366 | #577 |
| 3 | Boise Police Department | Municipal | 326 | $69,514 | +$13,354 | #791 |
| 4 | Meridian Police Department | Municipal | 109 | $67,621 | +$11,461 | #885 |
| 5 | Post Falls Police Department | Municipal | 52 | $67,330 | +$11,170 | #904 |
| 6 | Coeur d'Alene Police Department | Municipal | 94 | $66,872 | +$10,712 | #925 |
| 7 | Kootenai County Sheriff's Office | County | 104 | $65,291 | +$9,131 | #1,006 |
| 8 | Ada County Sheriff's Office | County | 220 | $64,896 | +$8,736 | #1,030 |
| 9 | McCall Police Department | Municipal | 12 | $63,773 | +$7,613 | #1,069 |
| 10 | Moscow Police Department | Municipal | 30 | $63,544 | +$7,384 | #1,079 |
| 11 | Lewiston Police Department | Municipal | 46 | $63,321 | +$7,161 | #1,094 |
| 12 | Idaho State Police | State | 311 | $62,546 | +$6,386 | #1,128 |
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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