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Issaquah 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.
Issaquah Police Department starts at $98,150 a year — about $47.19 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $31,465 above the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $30,010 above the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Washington run about 7% above the national average, so this is worth roughly $91,718 somewhere at average prices — $6,432 less than the headline figure. Most of that is rent, at 126 against a national average of 100, where goods are 104. 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 isIssaquah Police Department reported 36 sworn officers and 38 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 0.9 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 39,556.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 Issaquah says about itself
Our mission is to uphold the public trust by working with all citizens to protect lives and property while sustaining a high quality of life and encouraging individual responsibility. Our vision is to be a recognised leader in local law enforcement services through professionalism, dedication, innovative solutions and positive changes. We are a community-oriented department represented by dispatch, jail, police and records personnel who provide outstanding services to Issaquah, operating a 72-bed jail and a 911 communications center serving the city of Issaquah, the city of Snoqualmie and the city of North Bend.
What Issaquah does
The Issaquah Police Department says it provides professional police services through patrol, investigations, traffic enforcement, crime prevention, emergency response, and community engagement. It emphasizes integrity, respect, service, accountability, teamwork, problem solving, and building trust with the community
Issaquah’s rotation, in BlueShifts
Issaquah patrol officers work four 12-hour shifts followed by four days off, with day and evening shifts bid on according to seniority.
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September 2026
This cycle has its own page: how it works, and how to build it.
Four on, four off drifts across the week — your days off land differently every cycle, so no two months look alike. BlueShifts builds it once and fills in every month ahead. The department also caps extra-duty work at two jobs a month, and the off-duty statistical calculator keeps track of what those add up to. Issaquah's corrections officers run twelves too, so a move between the road and the jail keeps the shift length and changes little else about the year.
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Where the figure comes from
Checked 9 August 2026. City of Issaquah official Police Officer - Entry Level employment posting — open the source document
Police Officer - Entry Level; published annual starting salary of $98,150.00
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 Issaquah 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. Issaquah starts at $98,150, so $30,010 above the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Issaquah Police Department officer make?
Issaquah Police Department starts a new officer on $98,150 a year, about $47.19 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 Issaquah official Police Officer - Entry Level employment posting.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Washington?
It ranks #14 of 92 agencies we have verified in Washington — 78 pay less, 13 pay more in the state — and #149 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $31,465 above, and against other municipal agencies $30,010 above.
What shifts do Issaquah Police Department officers work?
Issaquah patrol officers work four 12-hour shifts followed by four days off, with day and evening shifts bid on according to seniority. That is the agency's own published wording; the pattern is drawn on this page.
Compare with another department
Put Issaquah 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 WA
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Issaquah | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seattle Police Department | Municipal | 1,064 | $117,792 | +$19,642 | #38 |
| 2 | Redmond Police Department | Municipal | 81 | $110,435 | +$12,285 | #59 |
| 3 | Auburn Police Department | Municipal | 120 | $108,386 | +$10,236 | #68 |
| 4 | Lynnwood Police Department | Municipal | 71 | $106,371 | +$8,221 | #81 |
| 5 | Everett Police Department | Municipal | 207 | $102,516 | +$4,366 | #106 |
| 6 | Vancouver Police Department | Municipal | 226 | $101,832 | +$3,682 | #110 |
| 7 | Kirkland Police Department | Municipal | 108 | $101,218 | +$3,068 | #118 |
| 8 | Tukwila Police Department | Municipal | 76 | $101,064 | +$2,914 | #120 |
| 9 | Bothell Police Department | Municipal | 70 | $101,055 | +$2,905 | #121 |
| 10 | Mount Vernon Police Department | Municipal | 43 | $100,836 | +$2,686 | #125 |
| 11 | Kennewick Police Department | Municipal | 107 | $100,104 | +$1,954 | #128 |
| 12 | Edmonds Police Department | Municipal | 48 | $99,168 | +$1,018 | #140 |
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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