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Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office 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.
Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office starts at $68,472 a year — about $32.92 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $1,787 above the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $332 above the median for municipal agencies.
How big the department isJacksonville Sheriff’s Office reported 1,887 sworn officers and 1,315 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025.No rate is shown: this agency does not police a single population the FBI publishes a figure for. 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 Jacksonville says about itself
At the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office our mission is "to Serve and Protect in Partnership with Our Community".
What Jacksonville does
Jacksonville Sheriff's Office is a joint city-county agency, created on 1 October 1968 when Jacksonville's police department and the Duval County Sheriff's Office were merged following a 1967 referendum that consolidated the city and county governments. It holds primary responsibility for law enforcement, investigation and corrections across the consolidated city and county, though Atlantic Beach, Jacksonville Beach and Neptune Beach kept their own police departments; Baldwin disbanded its department in 2006 and the Sheriff's Office took over there. Patrol works through geographic districts, each divided into sectors and those into sub-sectors, with boundaries drawn from years of calls-for-service data rather than by area.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 8 August 2026. City of Jacksonville official class specification — — open the source document
$68,472. Latest source revision date shown: 15 May 2026
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.
Counted as both municipal and county. It appears on both lists and is counted ONCE in the national totals, so no figure here is double-counted.
How this level compares
Where Jacksonville 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. Jacksonville starts at $68,472, so $332 above the municipal middle.
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How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office officer make?
Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office starts a new officer on $68,472 a year, about $32.92 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 Jacksonville official class specification —.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Florida?
It ranks #79 of 303 agencies we have verified in Florida — 224 pay less, 78 pay more in the state — and #1,022 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $1,787 above, and against other municipal agencies $332 above.
Compare with another department
Put Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office 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 FL
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Jacksonville | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boca Raton Police Services Department | Municipal | 195 | $91,007 | +$22,535 | #244 |
| 2 | Fort Lauderdale Police Department | Municipal | 565 | $81,723 | +$13,251 | #433 |
| 3 | Plantation Police Department | Municipal | 164 | $81,000 | +$12,528 | #459 |
| 4 | Hillsboro Beach Police Department | Municipal | 15 | $80,954 | +$12,482 | #461 |
| 5 | Pinecrest Police Department | Municipal | 47 | $80,912 | +$12,440 | #464 |
| 6 | Sunny Isles Beach Police Department | Municipal | 65 | $80,000 | +$11,528 | #496 |
| 7 | Indian Creek Village Public Safety Department | Municipal | 10 | $79,850 | +$11,378 | #500 |
| 8 | Sunrise Police Department | Municipal | 190 | $79,071 | +$10,599 | #520 |
| 9 | Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office | County | 1,720 | $78,828 | +$10,356 | #526 |
| 10 | Aventura Police Department | Municipal | 91 | $78,556 | +$10,084 | #536 |
| 11 | Longboat Key Police Department | Municipal | 19 | $78,430 | +$9,958 | #543 |
| 12 | Manalapan Police Department | Municipal | 13 | $78,280 | +$9,808 | #549 |
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