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Jasper County 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.
Jasper County Sheriff's Office starts at $66,643 a year — about $32.04 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $1,747 below the median of the 1,681 agencies on this list, and $1,269 above the median for county agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA run about 8% below the national average, so this goes about as far as $72,674 would somewhere at average prices — $6,031 more than the headline figure. Most of that is utilities, at 85 against a national average of 100, where goods are 94. Based on price levels for this metropolitan 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 isJasper County Sheriff's Office reported 19 sworn officers and 36 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 Jasper County says about itself
The Jasper County Sheriff's Department consists of 46 full and part time employees who are trained and experienced in law enforcement, corrections and dispatch communications. We strive as a department to provide professional law enforcement to every citizen of Jasper County.
What Jasper County does
The Jasper County Sheriff's Office hires Deputy Sheriffs through county Civil Service testing and maintains a separate lateral-entry benefit for already-certified officers. The entry process includes physical agility, POST testing, interview and background/selection procedures
Where the figure comes from
Checked 10 August 2026. Jasper County Deputy Sheriff Testing Process & Application — open the source document
The official county posting lists a current hourly pay scale of $32.04-$40.82 effective 2025-08-23. Iowa-certified officers are separately eligible for lateral entry with a higher starting wage, so the bottom rate applies to the standard entry route. Annualized at 2,080 hours: $32.04 x 2,080 = $66,643.20 Jasper County's Civil Service testing is for the full-time Deputy Sheriff classification. The county separately identifies Iowa-certified officers as lateral applicants, confirming that the standard testing route is open to non-certified candidates
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 Jasper 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.
| Level | Lowest | Median | Highest | Agencies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Municipal | $35,006 | $71,287 | $163,619 | 1046 |
| County | $36,492 | $65,374 | $132,263 | 416 |
| Special jurisdiction | $31,200 | $60,195 | $107,954 | 69 |
| State | $33,994 | $64,998 | $102,692 | 143 |
| 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 $2,200 more than the middle municipal agency and about $8,100 more than the middle county agency and about $13,300 more than the middle special jurisdiction agency and about $8,500 more than the middle state agency and about $45,300 more than the middle territory agency. Jasper County starts at $66,643, so $1,269 above the county middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Jasper County Sheriff's Office officer make?
Jasper County Sheriff's Office starts a new officer on $66,643 a year, about $32.04 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 Jasper County Deputy Sheriff Testing Process & Application.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Iowa?
It ranks #21 of 28 agencies we have verified in Iowa — 7 pay less, 20 pay more in the state — and #938 of 1,681 nationally. Against the national median it is $1,747 below, and against other county agencies $1,269 above.
Compare with another department
Put Jasper County 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 IA
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Jasper | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Iowa County Sheriff's Office | County | 14 | $85,550 | +$18,907 | #281 |
| 2 | Des Moines Police Department | Municipal | 367 | $84,635 | +$17,992 | #297 |
| 3 | Norwalk Police Department | Municipal | 22 | $76,710 | +$10,067 | #486 |
| 4 | Ankeny Police Department | Municipal | 78 | $76,648 | +$10,005 | #491 |
| 5 | Urbandale Police Department | Municipal | 58 | $76,028 | +$9,385 | #516 |
| 6 | Woodbury County Sheriff's Office | County | 44 | $73,944 | +$7,301 | #597 |
| 7 | Linn County Sheriff's Office | County | 120 | $73,216 | +$6,573 | #616 |
| 8 | Chickasaw County Sheriff's Office | County | 10 | $71,822 | +$5,179 | #678 |
| 9 | Mason City Police Department | Municipal | 40 | $71,448 | +$4,805 | #698 |
| 10 | Johnson County Sheriff's Office | County | 81 | $70,871 | +$4,228 | #732 |
| 11 | Iowa Department of Natural Resources — Conservation Law Enforcement | State | — | $70,574 | +$3,931 | #742 |
| 12 | Davenport Police Department | Municipal | 143 | $70,322 | +$3,679 | #752 |
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