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Jupiter 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 Police Department starts at $75,000 a year — about $36.06 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $8,315 above the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $6,860 above the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL run about 14% above the national average, so this is worth roughly $65,700 somewhere at average prices — $9,300 less than the headline figure. Most of that is rent, at 156 against a national average of 100, where goods are 104. 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 isJupiter Police Department reported 115 sworn officers and 35 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 1.8 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 63,447.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 says about itself
The Jupiter Police Department is made up of several different components, all of which contribute significantly to the overall police service provided to the community.
What Jupiter does
The Town says the classification protects life and property, enforces federal, state and local laws, responds to emergencies and non-emergencies and investigates criminal activity, with officers working in Road Patrol, Traffic, Marine or other assigned units.
Jupiter’s rotation, in BlueShifts
Under the current contract, road patrol officers work eleven-and-a-half hour shifts, assigned to a day platoon or night platoon, with a rotating schedule of four days on followed by four days off. Assignment to the night platoon carries 2% additional pay.
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September 2026
This cycle has its own page: how it works, and how to build it.
Four on, four off on eleven-and-a-half hour tours never repeats weekly, so the same weekday is a work day one month and a day off the next. BlueShifts builds the cycle once and fills in every month ahead, and marks day and night tours separately, so which platoon you are on is visible at a glance across the year.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 13 September 2026. Town of Jupiter's own website, Police Department Salary page — open the source document
Open posting dated 22 April 2026; $36.06 hourly with the annual figure published as $75,000. VERIFIED ON THE TOWN'S OWN PAGE, 13 SEPTEMBER 2026, AND REPOINTED TO IT. jupiter.fl.us/405/Salary states in the Town's own words: 'Florida State Certified or Out-of-State Certified Police Officer Base Annual Starting Salary: $75,000', topping out at $124,000 under the contract between the Town of Jupiter and the Palm Beach County Police Benevolent Association, with an annual $3,000 tenure bonus once an officer reaches top-out. THE MEASURE IS THE PALM BAY SHAPE AND WAS CHECKED FOR DELIBERATELY: the Town also hires NON-CERTIFIED officers at $50,380.33 while they attend the academy, moving to the certified salary on passing the Florida State Examination. That is a parallel route, not the compulsory door - a certified applicant with no prior sworn service is hired straight in at $75,000, and under the entry-pay test certification never disqualifies while only prior sworn service does. The Town says separately that certified officers WITH full-time sworn experience may receive a salary adjustment for it, which is the lateral provision and confirms $75,000 is the no-prior-service rate. Excluded from the figure: assignment pay under the union contract (K-9 officers receive one hour of pay per shift), shift differential on the eleven-and-a-half hour tours, and the tenure bonus.
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 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 starts at $75,000, so $6,860 above the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Jupiter Police Department officer make?
Jupiter Police Department starts a new officer on $75,000 a year, about $36.06 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's own website, Police Department Salary page.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Florida?
It ranks #29 of 303 agencies we have verified in Florida — 274 pay less, 28 pay more in the state — and #678 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $8,315 above, and against other municipal agencies $6,860 above.
What shifts do Jupiter Police Department officers work?
Under the current contract, road patrol officers work eleven-and-a-half hour shifts, assigned to a day platoon or night platoon, with a rotating schedule of four days on followed by four days off. Assignment to the night platoon carries 2% additional pay. That is the agency's own published wording; the pattern is drawn on this page.
Compare with another department
Put Jupiter 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 | +$16,007 | #244 |
| 2 | Fort Lauderdale Police Department | Municipal | 565 | $81,723 | +$6,723 | #433 |
| 3 | Plantation Police Department | Municipal | 164 | $81,000 | +$6,000 | #459 |
| 4 | Hillsboro Beach Police Department | Municipal | 15 | $80,954 | +$5,954 | #461 |
| 5 | Pinecrest Police Department | Municipal | 47 | $80,912 | +$5,912 | #464 |
| 6 | Sunny Isles Beach Police Department | Municipal | 65 | $80,000 | +$5,000 | #496 |
| 7 | Indian Creek Village Public Safety Department | Municipal | 10 | $79,850 | +$4,850 | #500 |
| 8 | Sunrise Police Department | Municipal | 190 | $79,071 | +$4,071 | #520 |
| 9 | Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office | County | 1,720 | $78,828 | +$3,828 | #526 |
| 10 | Aventura Police Department | Municipal | 91 | $78,556 | +$3,556 | #536 |
| 11 | Longboat Key Police Department | Municipal | 19 | $78,430 | +$3,430 | #543 |
| 12 | Manalapan Police Department | Municipal | 13 | $78,280 | +$3,280 | #549 |
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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