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Lawrenceville 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.
Lawrenceville Police Department starts at $55,480 a year — about $26.67 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $11,205 below the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $12,660 below the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Georgia run about 4% below the national average, so this goes about as far as $57,616 would somewhere at average prices — $2,136 more than the headline figure. Most of that is rent, at 89 against a national average of 100, where goods are 99. 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 isLawrenceville Police Department reported 81 sworn officers and 23 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 2.5 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 32,222.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 Lawrenceville says about itself
To build a safer Lawrenceville through community engagement and professional police services.
What Lawrenceville does
The Lawrenceville Police Department serves the city of Lawrenceville, Georgia, the seat of Gwinnett County north-east of Atlanta. It hires officers who hold no Georgia POST certification and sends them to the police academy itself, publishing one salary range for the sworn class whose spread turns on the applicant's qualifications rather than on certification. It runs a separate part-time officer class at an hourly rate.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 21 September 2026. City of Lawrenceville, Employment — Police Officer: "Salary range from $55,479.93 to $64,201.096, depending on qualifications." — open the source document
$55,479.93 is the stated MINIMUM of the City's own published salary range and no arithmetic has been applied to it. The $64,201.096 top of the range is a ceiling and is not the figure. THE SPREAD IS GATED ON QUALIFICATIONS, NOT ON CERTIFICATION, WHICH IS WHAT MAKES THE MINIMUM THE ENTRY FIGURE: the City states plainly "No POST certification needed to apply. We will send you to the Police Academy." Georgia agencies commonly price a non-certified rate beneath a POST-certified one, and Lawrenceville does the opposite - it hires uncertified and sends the officer to the academy on the same range - so there is no certification step to land on and no lower training rate to reject. Excluded from the figure: the part-time officer rate of $31 to $35 an hour, which is a different class, and the Georgia state supplement. THE FIGURE CARRIES NO EFFECTIVE DATE. NEXT DOCUMENT: the City of Lawrenceville adopted classification and compensation plan.
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 Lawrenceville 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. Lawrenceville starts at $55,480, so $12,660 below the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Lawrenceville Police Department officer make?
Lawrenceville Police Department starts a new officer on $55,480 a year, about $26.67 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 Lawrenceville, Employment — Police Officer: "Salary range from $55,479.93 to $64,201.096, depending on qualifications.".
Is that good pay for a police officer in Georgia?
It ranks #42 of 80 agencies we have verified in Georgia — 38 pay less, 41 pay more in the state — and #1,819 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $11,205 below, and against other municipal agencies $12,660 below.
Compare with another department
Put Lawrenceville 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 GA
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Lawrenceville | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chamblee Police Department | Municipal | 68 | $73,733 | +$18,253 | #729 |
| 2 | Sandy Springs Police Department | Municipal | 149 | $71,686 | +$16,207 | #836 |
| 3 | Georgia Bureau of Investigation | State | 338 | $64,977 | +$9,497 | #1,265 |
| 4 | Duluth Police Department | Municipal | 57 | $64,755 | +$9,275 | #1,279 |
| 5 | Garden City Police Department | Municipal | 35 | $64,072 | +$8,592 | #1,314 |
| 6 | Georgia State Patrol | State | — | $63,684 | +$8,204 | #1,336 |
| 7 | South Fulton Police Department | Municipal | 213 | $63,440 | +$7,960 | #1,354 |
| 8 | Hall County Sheriff's Office | County | 283 | $63,365 | +$7,885 | #1,359 |
| 9 | Roswell Police Department | Municipal | 154 | $62,462 | +$6,982 | #1,413 |
| 10 | Dunwoody Police Department | Municipal | 66 | $62,301 | +$6,821 | #1,428 |
| 11 | Savannah Police Department | Municipal | 425 | $61,989 | +$6,509 | #1,450 |
| 12 | Alpharetta Police Department | Municipal | 105 | $61,100 | +$5,620 | #1,495 |
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