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Huntersville 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.
Huntersville Police Department starts at $62,647 a year — about $30.12 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $4,038 below the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $5,493 below the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in North Carolina run about 6% below the national average, so this goes about as far as $66,415 would somewhere at average prices — $3,768 more than the headline figure. Most of that is rent, at 81 against a national average of 100, where goods are 97. 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 isHuntersville Police Department reported 92 sworn officers and 20 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 1.3 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 68,534.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 Huntersville says about itself
Today, the Department is a growing full service law enforcement agency with 106 sworn positions.
What Huntersville does
The Huntersville Police Department serves the town of Huntersville, North Carolina, in Mecklenburg County north of Charlotte, one of the fastest growing municipalities in the country with a population of almost 65,000. It is a full service law enforcement agency with 106 sworn positions, working through what it calls a community policing partnership. It publishes one starting salary for sworn officers with a five per cent increase at twelve months above it and no non-certified rate beneath it.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 21 September 2026. Huntersville Police Department recruiting site: "Starting Salary: $62,647". — open the source document
$62,647 is the Department's own annual figure and no arithmetic has been applied to it. The same line carries "Up to $83,007 depending on qualifications", which is a ceiling and is not the figure. HUNTERSVILLE PRICES NO CADET CLASS: the recruiting site publishes no non-certified, trainee or BLET rate, so there is no academy-gated step to choose between and no training rate to reject. The only movement above the start that the Department names is time-gated and is excluded - "5% pay raise after probationary period (12 months)" is a step reached by serving twelve months, not by finishing the academy. THE FIGURE CARRIES NO EFFECTIVE DATE. NEXT DOCUMENT: the Town of Huntersville classification and pay plan adopted with the annual budget, which would date this figure and supply earlier points.
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 Huntersville 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. Huntersville starts at $62,647, so $5,493 below the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Huntersville Police Department officer make?
Huntersville Police Department starts a new officer on $62,647 a year, about $30.12 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 Huntersville Police Department recruiting site: "Starting Salary: $62,647"..
Is that good pay for a police officer in North Carolina?
It ranks #6 of 53 agencies we have verified in North Carolina — 47 pay less, 5 pay more in the state — and #1,400 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $4,038 below, and against other municipal agencies $5,493 below.
Compare with another department
Put Huntersville 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 NC
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Huntersville | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Knightdale Police Department | Municipal | 45 | $67,363 | +$4,716 | #1,104 |
| 2 | Cary Police Department | Municipal | 194 | $65,104 | +$2,457 | #1,247 |
| 3 | Wake Forest Police Department | Municipal | 96 | $65,093 | +$2,446 | #1,248 |
| 4 | Appalachian State University Police Department | Special jurisdiction | 36 | $64,084 | +$1,437 | #1,312 |
| 5 | North Carolina State Highway Patrol | State | — | $63,250 | +$603 | #1,368 |
| 7 | Apex Police Department | Municipal | 104 | $62,524 | −$123 | #1,408 |
| 8 | Fuquay-Varina Police Department | Municipal | 70 | $62,291 | −$356 | #1,430 |
| 9 | Johnston County Sheriff's Office | County | 124 | $62,213 | −$434 | #1,436 |
| 10 | Chapel Hill Police Department | Municipal | 82 | $61,451 | −$1,196 | #1,477 |
| 11 | Raleigh Police Department | Municipal | 713 | $61,417 | −$1,230 | #1,478 |
| 12 | Duke University Police Department | Special jurisdiction | 57 | $60,195 | −$2,452 | #1,551 |
| 13 | Greensboro Police Department | Municipal | 582 | $59,509 | −$3,138 | #1,605 |
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