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Irving 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.
Irving Police Department starts at $83,808 a year — about $40.29 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $17,123 above the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $15,668 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 $86,349 would somewhere at average prices — $2,541 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 isIrving Police Department reported 398 sworn officers and 206 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 1.5 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 258,220.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 Irving says about itself
We are committed to proactively protecting the residents, businesses, and visitors of Irving by serving with professionalism, dignity, and respect. Our mission is to build and maintain trust with all segments of our community through meaningful and intentional community engagement, and our vision is to ensure a safe and secure community for all. Our values are trust, community engagement, proactive protection, professionalism, dignity and respect, fairness and equality, accountability and responsibility, collaboration and teamwork, continuous learning and improvement, and compassion and empathy.
What Irving does
Irving Police Department covers 67.9 square miles of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex with roughly 400 sworn officers and 233 civilian staff, and runs an unusually developed wellness operation: a Public Safety Wellness Unit staffed by a licensed psychologist and two clinicians, deliberately placed outside the department under the City Manager's Office to protect confidentiality, with critical-incident debriefs made mandatory to remove the stigma from post-incident care
Irving’s rotation, in BlueShifts
Irving lists it among the benefits of the officer post: six 12-hour shifts with a single 8-hour shift in a two-week period.
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Where the figure comes from
Checked 19 August 2026. Irving Police Department recruiting site, Officer Careers - New Officer salary — open the source document
Starting $83,808, rising to $87,996 at six months of service. The department prints the ENTRY and LATERAL scales in two separate blocks on the same page, and the lateral scale begins at one whole year of service ($87,996), so there is no ambiguity about which figure prices a new officer. Excluded as add-ons: education incentives to $200 a month, certification to $160, bilingual to $250, fitness to $150, longevity, and a 3% night shift differential.
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.
How this level compares
Where Irving 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. Irving starts at $83,808, so $15,668 above the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Irving Police Department officer make?
Irving Police Department starts a new officer on $83,808 a year, about $40.29 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 Irving Police Department recruiting site, Officer Careers - New Officer salary.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Texas?
It ranks #14 of 151 agencies we have verified in Texas — 137 pay less, 13 pay more in the state — and #380 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $17,123 above, and against other municipal agencies $15,668 above.
What shifts do Irving Police Department officers work?
Irving lists it among the benefits of the officer post: six 12-hour shifts with a single 8-hour shift in a two-week period. That is the agency's own published wording; the pattern is drawn on this page.
Compare with another department
Put Irving 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 Irving | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Allen Police Department | Municipal | 153 | $91,106 | +$7,298 | #241 |
| 2 | Frisco Police Department | Municipal | 270 | $90,750 | +$6,942 | #252 |
| 3 | Plano Police Department | Municipal | 400 | $90,729 | +$6,921 | #253 |
| 4 | Grand Prairie Police Department | Municipal | 287 | $90,000 | +$6,192 | #270 |
| 5 | Hurst Police Department | Municipal | 61 | $87,048 | +$3,240 | #322 |
| 6 | Lewisville Police Department | Municipal | 181 | $86,268 | +$2,460 | #335 |
| 7 | Coppell Police Department | Municipal | 60 | $84,968 | +$1,160 | #355 |
| 8 | Rockwall Police Department | Municipal | 95 | $84,448 | +$640 | #362 |
| 9 | Farmers Branch Police Department | Municipal | 83 | $84,440 | +$632 | #363 |
| 10 | The Colony Police Department | Municipal | 86 | $84,082 | +$274 | #371 |
| 11 | Baytown Police Department | Municipal | 172 | $84,049 | +$241 | #372 |
| 12 | McKinney Police Department | Municipal | 248 | $83,992 | +$184 | #374 |
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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