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Johnson City 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.
Johnson City Police Department starts at $60,382 a year — about $29.03 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $6,302 below the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $7,758 below the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Texas run about 3% below the national average, so this goes about as far as $62,213 would somewhere at average prices — $1,831 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 isJohnson City Police Department reported 7 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. That is 3.2 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 2,181.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 Johnson City says about itself
The Johnson City Police Department's goal is to provide the most current information about the department and the various crime prevention programmes offered to the community. We recognize that to be successful, we must foster strong partnerships with our community and maintain an open and productive exchange of information, and we are genuinely interested in hearing your questions, comments, criticisms and concerns. The department also covers code enforcement and animal control for the city.
What Johnson City does
Johnson City Police Department serves the county seat of Blanco County in the Texas Hill Country, a town of about 1,600 at the crossroads of US 281 and US 290 and the boyhood home of Lyndon B. Johnson. A small department covering under two square miles, it also oversees code enforcement and animal control, and publishes its racial profiling reports on the city site
Where the figure comes from
Checked 20 August 2026. City of Johnson City — Police Officer vacancy announcement (TCOLE document library) — open the source document
City of Johnson City's own Police Officer vacancy announcement, hosted in the TCOLE document library: starting pay of $29.03 an hour, which is $60,382.40 a year on the site's standard 2,080 hours. No prior service is required, and this is not a lateral rate: the announcement sets the requirements as a high school diploma, a TCOLE Basic certification and a Class C Texas driver's license, with no prior service required and no experience-based rate named. Certification is not experience.
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 Johnson City 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. Johnson City starts at $60,382, so $7,758 below the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Johnson City Police Department officer make?
Johnson City Police Department starts a new officer on $60,382 a year, about $29.03 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 Johnson City — Police Officer vacancy announcement (TCOLE document library).
Is that good pay for a police officer in Texas?
It ranks #119 of 151 agencies we have verified in Texas — 32 pay less, 118 pay more in the state — and #1,540 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $6,302 below, and against other municipal agencies $7,758 below.
Compare with another department
Put Johnson City 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 Johnson | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Allen Police Department | Municipal | 153 | $91,106 | +$30,724 | #241 |
| 2 | Frisco Police Department | Municipal | 270 | $90,750 | +$30,368 | #252 |
| 3 | Plano Police Department | Municipal | 400 | $90,729 | +$30,347 | #253 |
| 4 | Grand Prairie Police Department | Municipal | 287 | $90,000 | +$29,618 | #270 |
| 5 | Hurst Police Department | Municipal | 61 | $87,048 | +$26,666 | #322 |
| 6 | Lewisville Police Department | Municipal | 181 | $86,268 | +$25,886 | #335 |
| 7 | Coppell Police Department | Municipal | 60 | $84,968 | +$24,586 | #355 |
| 8 | Rockwall Police Department | Municipal | 95 | $84,448 | +$24,066 | #362 |
| 9 | Farmers Branch Police Department | Municipal | 83 | $84,440 | +$24,058 | #363 |
| 10 | The Colony Police Department | Municipal | 86 | $84,082 | +$23,700 | #371 |
| 11 | Baytown Police Department | Municipal | 172 | $84,049 | +$23,667 | #372 |
| 12 | McKinney Police Department | Municipal | 248 | $83,992 | +$23,610 | #374 |
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