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La Habra 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.
La Habra Police Department starts at $103,671 a year — about $49.84 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $36,987 above the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $35,531 above the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in California run about 11% above the national average, so this is worth roughly $93,634 somewhere at average prices — $10,038 less than the headline figure. Most of that is utilities, at 159 against a national average of 100, where goods are 106. 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 isLa Habra Police Department reported 72 sworn officers and 27 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 1.2 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 60,994.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 La Habra says about itself
Since 1925, the La Habra Police Department has been dedicated to providing the residents of this community with a safe environment in which to live and work.
What La Habra does
The La Habra Police Department has served the city of La Habra, California, in north Orange County, since 1925. Its patrol officers work a three-day twelve-and-a-half-hour week with one additional ten-hour day a month, are assigned to specific areas for at least four months at a time, and hold a minimum field strength of four officers, a field supervisor and a watch commander on every shift. The City's sworn salary schedule carries no recruit or trainee classification beneath Police Officer.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 21 September 2026. City of La Habra, Police - Sworn salary schedule, Exhibit "B" to the Police Sworn memorandum of understanding 2025-2029 — POLICE OFFICER, range P-40, STEP 1 "START RATE": $49.842 hourly effective July 11, 2026. — open the source document
$49.842 an hour is the City's own START RATE for range P-40 and IS THE ONLY FORM THE CITY PUBLISHES IT IN. $103,671.36 is that rate at 2,080 hours, the same annualisation this roster applies to every hourly-only source, named here rather than hidden. THE CURRENT TABLE IS THE JULY 2026 ONE, NOT THE FIRST IN THE DOCUMENT: the schedule carries seven dated tables from July 2025 to January 2029, and on 21 September 2026 the rate in force is the one effective 11 July 2026. Taking the document's opening table, $45.643 from 12 July 2025, would have published a figure superseded fourteen months ago. LA HABRA PRICES NO SWORN RECRUIT CLASS: the sworn schedule carries exactly four classifications on every dated table - Police Officer P-40, Police Corporal P-70, Police Sergeant P-80 and Police Lieutenant P-90 - and no recruit, trainee or academy row anywhere. The only adjacent class is a PART-TIME "POLICE CADET 901 $20.000" an hour on the part-time schedule, which is a part-time cadet and not an academy recruit, so it is not a like-for-like training tier and is not treated as one. The eight-step range tops out at $60.993 and that is a ceiling. THE FIGURE IS DATED BY THE SCHEDULE ITSELF.
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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Entry pay through 2027
Every point is the entry-class annual base printed in the agency’s own pay document. Base pay only — no shift differential, incentives or allowances.
How this level compares
Where La Habra 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. La Habra starts at $103,671, so $35,531 above the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a La Habra Police Department officer make?
La Habra Police Department starts a new officer on $103,671 a year, about $49.84 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 La Habra, Police - Sworn salary schedule, Exhibit "B" to the Police Sworn memorandum of understanding 2025-2029 — POLICE OFFICER, range P-40, STEP 1 "START RATE": $49.842 hourly effective July 11, 2026..
Is that good pay for a police officer in California?
It ranks #86 of 278 agencies we have verified in California — 192 pay less, 85 pay more in the state — and #90 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $36,987 above, and against other municipal agencies $35,531 above.
Compare with another department
Put La Habra 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 CA
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs La | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Santa Clara Police Department | Municipal | 141 | $163,619 | +$59,948 | #1 |
| 2 | Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety | Municipal | 227 | $149,443 | +$45,772 | #2 |
| 3 | Redwood City Police Department | Municipal | 83 | $147,942 | +$44,271 | #3 |
| 4 | San Jose Police Department | Municipal | 1,065 | $144,003 | +$40,332 | #4 |
| 5 | Mountain View Police Department | Municipal | 90 | $143,096 | +$39,425 | #5 |
| 6 | San Mateo Police Department | Municipal | 111 | $141,024 | +$37,353 | #6 |
| 7 | Los Altos Police Department | Municipal | 31 | $139,740 | +$36,068 | #7 |
| 8 | Hayward Police Department | Municipal | 171 | $138,965 | +$35,293 | #8 |
| 9 | Milpitas Police Department | Municipal | 84 | $138,261 | +$34,589 | #9 |
| 10 | Los Gatos Police Department | Municipal | 34 | $132,394 | +$28,722 | #10 |
| 11 | Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office | County | 1,071 | $132,263 | +$28,592 | #11 |
| 12 | Menlo Park Police Department | Municipal | 43 | $132,036 | +$28,365 | #12 |
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