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Lenexa 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.
Lenexa Police Department starts at $66,013 a year — about $31.74 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $2,377 below the median of the 1,681 agencies on this list, and $5,251 below the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Kansas City, MO-KS run about 7% below the national average, so this goes about as far as $71,332 would somewhere at average prices — $5,319 more than the headline figure. Most of that is rent, at 87 against a national average of 100, where goods are 94. 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 isLenexa Police Department reported 93 sworn officers and 54 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 1.6 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 59,913.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 Lenexa says about itself
The Lenexa Police Department is a progressive agency comprised of men and women, who are independent and highly trained individuals focused on promoting the safety of the community through intelligently led proactive policing.
What Lenexa does
Lenexa identifies the Police Officer as the sworn rank reached after successful completion of the police academy. The city publishes separate recruit and sworn-officer salary ranges.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 10 August 2026. City of Lenexa Public Safety Pay Plan - Sworn Police Pay Grades — open the source document
Their source is effective 1 August 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.
How this level compares
Where Lenexa 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 | $35,006 | $71,287 | $163,619 | 1046 |
| County | $36,492 | $65,374 | $132,263 | 416 |
| Special jurisdiction | $31,200 | $60,195 | $107,954 | 69 |
| State | $33,994 | $64,998 | $102,692 | 143 |
| 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 $2,200 more than the middle municipal agency and about $8,100 more than the middle county agency and about $13,300 more than the middle special jurisdiction agency and about $8,500 more than the middle state agency and about $45,300 more than the middle territory agency. Lenexa starts at $66,013, so $5,274 below the municipal middle.
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How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Lenexa Police Department officer make?
Lenexa Police Department starts a new officer on $66,013 a year, about $31.74 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 Lenexa Public Safety Pay Plan - Sworn Police Pay Grades.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Kansas?
It ranks #3 of 13 agencies we have verified in Kansas — 10 pay less, 2 pay more in the state — and #965 of 1,681 nationally. Against the national median it is $2,377 below, and against other municipal agencies $5,251 below.
Compare with another department
Put Lenexa 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 KS
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Lenexa | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wichita Police Department | Municipal | 663 | $70,970 | +$4,957 | #724 |
| 2 | Kansas Highway Patrol | State | 467 | $68,182 | +$2,169 | #851 |
| 4 | Olathe Police Department | Municipal | 210 | $65,050 | −$963 | #1,018 |
| 5 | University of Kansas Police Department | Special jurisdiction | 28 | $60,180 | −$5,833 | #1,229 |
| 6 | Saline County Sheriff's Office | County | 41 | $57,866 | −$8,147 | #1,333 |
| 7 | Salina Police Department | Municipal | 71 | $57,741 | −$8,272 | #1,343 |
| 8 | Garden City Police Department | Municipal | 61 | $56,451 | −$9,562 | #1,385 |
| 9 | Junction City Police Department | Municipal | 47 | $53,747 | −$12,266 | #1,480 |
| 10 | Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks — Law Enforcement Division | State | — | $53,414 | −$12,599 | #1,488 |
| 11 | Wichita State University Police Department | Special jurisdiction | 28 | $49,254 | −$16,759 | #1,583 |
| 12 | Arkansas City Police Department | Municipal | 23 | $44,491 | −$21,522 | #1,636 |
| 13 | Kansas State University Police Department | Special jurisdiction | — | $42,494 | −$23,519 | #1,647 |
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