Hood River County Sheriff's Office entry pay

What Hood River County says about itself

The Hood River County Sheriff's Office is proud to serve and protect the area's citizens & visitors.

What Hood River County does

The Hood River County Sheriff's Office polices the Columbia River Gorge under Mount Hood, running patrol, marine and forest enforcement, off-highway vehicle and snowmobile programmes, the jail, civil process, parole and probation, search and rescue, emergency management and the county 911 center. Its deputies, dispatchers and animal control officers are covered by one Law Enforcement Association schedule of eight steps, with no trainee or recruit class beneath the Deputy Sheriff grade. The County prints the BLS cost-of-living series its annual increase was taken from on the face of the schedule.

Where the figure comes from

Checked 21 September 2026. Hood River County, LEA 2026-27 Salary Schedule, "Effective 1-JUL-2026 - 30-JUN-2027", "Includes 2.7% COLA" — "S04 & Deputy Sheriff 66,755 68,827 70,899 72,950 75,001 77,009 79,017 81,003", Step 1 of eight, with the hourly line beneath it reading "32.0938". — open the source document
$66,755 is the County's OWN annual figure for Deputy Sheriff at Step 1, printed above its own hourly equivalent of $32.0938, so no arithmetic has been applied to it. THE SCHEDULE IS THE LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSOCIATION'S AND COVERS THREE CLASSES, ALL PRICED SEPARATELY: Deputy Sheriff at grade S04, Animal Control Officer at S02 and 911 Dispatcher at D02. Deputy Sheriff is the only sworn one and the highest of the three. THERE IS NO TRAINEE, RECRUIT OR CADET CLASS ON THE SCHEDULE, and none in the County's other published pay tables - Non-represented, AFSCME 1082 General, AFSCME 1082 Deputy District Attorneys, AFSCME 2503 Forestry and Public Works, FOPPO Parole and Probation, and Elected Officials - so Deputy Sheriff Step 1 is the day-one rate. Excluded from the figure: the seven steps above, topping out at $81,003. THE DOCUMENT SHOWS ITS OWN WORKING, which is unusual and worth keeping: it states "Includes 2.7% COLA" and then prints the BLS series it was taken from - "BLS CPI - U.S. City Average for All Urban Consumers for All Items, 12-month percentage change" with each month of 2025 listed - so the increase is not merely asserted, it is sourced on the face of the schedule. THE SCHEDULE IS SERVED FROM A SECOND HOST: the County's Salary Schedules page is on hoodrivercounty.gov but the tables themselves are on hoodriveror.govoffice2.com, and the Sheriff's Office runs a third domain, hoodriversheriff.com.
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.

Entry pay, 2024–2026

Every point is the entry-class annual base printed in the agency’s own pay document. Base pay only — no shift differential, incentives or allowances.

In effect

How this level compares

Where Hood River 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.

How it ranks

Common questions

How much does a Hood River County Sheriff's Office officer make?

Hood River County Sheriff's Office starts a new officer on $66,755 a year, about $32.09 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 Hood River County, LEA 2026-27 Salary Schedule, "Effective 1-JUL-2026 - 30-JUN-2027", "Includes 2.7% COLA" — "S04 & Deputy Sheriff 66,755 68,827 70,899 72,950 75,001 77,009 79,017 81,003", Step 1 of eight, with the hourly line beneath it reading "32.0938"..

Is that good pay for a police officer in Oregon?

It ranks #41 of 53 agencies we have verified in Oregon — 12 pay less, 40 pay more in the state — and #1,141 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $70 above, and against other county agencies $3,195 above.

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