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Jupiter Inlet Colony 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.
Jupiter Inlet Colony Police Department starts at $67,704 a year — about $32.55 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $1,019 above the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $436 below the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Florida run about 3% above the national average, so this is worth roughly $65,469 somewhere at average prices — $2,235 less than the headline figure. Most of that is rent, at 122 against a national average of 100, 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 isJupiter Inlet Colony Police Department reported 7 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. That is 14.9 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 470.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 Jupiter Inlet Colony says about itself
The Jupiter Inlet Colony Police Department has a force of 7 full-time and 3 part-time police officers, operating through a 12-hour shift schedule.
What Jupiter Inlet Colony does
The Jupiter Inlet Colony Police Department is the municipal force for the Town of Jupiter Inlet Colony, a residential town of about 405 residents in 236 households at the north end of Palm Beach County, incorporated in 1959 and covering roughly a fifth of a square mile across eight streets, bounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the Jupiter Inlet, the Loxahatchee River and the Indian River.
Shifts at Jupiter Inlet Colony
The Town's own police officer postings state a force of eight full-time and four part-time officers operating through a 12-hour shift schedule, with part-time officers covering patrol shifts as needed.
The agency publishes the shift length but not a named cycle. These are the 12-hour rotations departments most often build on it: Pitman, 4 on, 4 off, DuPont, Panama, 3-4-4-3.
A twelve-officer department on 12-hour tours leans on part-time cover, so the roster changes week to week. BlueShifts keeps the shifts you have picked up alongside your own pattern.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 30 August 2026. Town of Jupiter Inlet Colony, FY2025-26 Budget Workshop of 28 July 2025, Police Department recommendation: full-time Police Officer $31.00/hour — open the source document
Their source is effective 1 October 2025.
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 Jupiter Inlet Colony 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. Jupiter Inlet Colony starts at $67,704, so $436 below the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Jupiter Inlet Colony Police Department officer make?
Jupiter Inlet Colony Police Department starts a new officer on $67,704 a year, about $32.55 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 Town of Jupiter Inlet Colony, FY2025-26 Budget Workshop of 28 July 2025, Police Department recommendation: full-time Police Officer $31.00/hour.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Florida?
It ranks #92 of 303 agencies we have verified in Florida — 211 pay less, 91 pay more in the state — and #1,075 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $1,019 above, and against other municipal agencies $436 below.
What shifts do Jupiter Inlet Colony Police Department officers work?
The Town's own police officer postings state a force of eight full-time and four part-time officers operating through a 12-hour shift schedule, with part-time officers covering patrol shifts as needed. That is the agency's own published wording; the pattern is drawn on this page.
Compare with another department
Put Jupiter Inlet Colony 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 FL
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Jupiter | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boca Raton Police Services Department | Municipal | 195 | $91,007 | +$23,303 | #244 |
| 2 | Fort Lauderdale Police Department | Municipal | 565 | $81,723 | +$14,019 | #433 |
| 3 | Plantation Police Department | Municipal | 164 | $81,000 | +$13,296 | #459 |
| 4 | Hillsboro Beach Police Department | Municipal | 15 | $80,954 | +$13,250 | #461 |
| 5 | Pinecrest Police Department | Municipal | 47 | $80,912 | +$13,208 | #464 |
| 6 | Sunny Isles Beach Police Department | Municipal | 65 | $80,000 | +$12,296 | #496 |
| 7 | Indian Creek Village Public Safety Department | Municipal | 10 | $79,850 | +$12,146 | #500 |
| 8 | Sunrise Police Department | Municipal | 190 | $79,071 | +$11,367 | #520 |
| 9 | Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office | County | 1,720 | $78,828 | +$11,124 | #526 |
| 10 | Aventura Police Department | Municipal | 91 | $78,556 | +$10,852 | #536 |
| 11 | Longboat Key Police Department | Municipal | 19 | $78,430 | +$10,726 | #543 |
| 12 | Manalapan Police Department | Municipal | 13 | $78,280 | +$10,576 | #549 |
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