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Londonderry 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.
Londonderry Police Department starts at $66,664 a year — about $32.05 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $21 below the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $1,476 below the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in New Hampshire run about 4% above the national average, so this is worth roughly $63,998 somewhere at average prices — $2,666 less than the headline figure. Most of that is utilities, at 134 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 isLondonderry Police Department reported 59 sworn officers and 14 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 2.2 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 27,327.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.
About Londonderry
The Londonderry Police Department serves the town of Londonderry in Rockingham County, southern New Hampshire - the fourth largest community in the state, with an estimated population of 27,000 as of 2024 - from 268A Mammoth Road. It runs 62 full-time officers, five part-time officers and 17 civilian employees. The town sits 43 miles north of Boston, 30 miles from the seacoast and 100 miles from the White Mountains. The Department has been accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies since 19 November 2021, one of roughly 793 accredited agencies among some 18,000 in the United States. Officers become eligible for specialised units and assignments after a minimum of one year with the Department.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 20 September 2026. Londonderry Police Department, Non-Certified Officer Recruitment — Londonderry Police Employees Association contract salary table, fiscal year 2027 START step — open the source document
$66,664.00 is the published FY2027 START figure and no arithmetic has been applied to it. The Department publishes the whole Londonderry Police Employees Association table on the page and states the contract took effect 1 July 2023 and runs through 30 June 2029, so the fiscal year beginning 1 July 2026 is the current one. Trainee class: NOT PRICED - the Department names no separate cadet, recruit or academy-attendance wage, and the page the table sits on is the Department's NON-CERTIFIED officer recruitment page, which is what fixes START as the step a candidate without certification is hired at. Prior sworn service is not required; the Department says only that the starting pay step for new employees will depend on the hire year and relevant training, education and experience, which is the mechanism by which an experienced hire is placed ABOVE START. $89,003.20 is the FY2028 top step and is a ceiling, not a step. OPEN AND RECORDED RATHER THAN RESOLVED: the gap between START and STEP 1 is unusually wide - $66,664.00 to $79,185.60 in FY2027, nearly nineteen per cent - which is the shape of a table where START absorbs the academy year, but the Department does not say so and prices no academy wage, so START is taken at face value. The Londonderry police contract on the New Hampshire PELRB's site is the document that would settle it.
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 Londonderry 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. Londonderry starts at $66,664, so $1,476 below the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Londonderry Police Department officer make?
Londonderry Police Department starts a new officer on $66,664 a year, about $32.05 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 Londonderry Police Department, Non-Certified Officer Recruitment — Londonderry Police Employees Association contract salary table, fiscal year 2027 START step.
Is that good pay for a police officer in New Hampshire?
It ranks #7 of 17 agencies we have verified in New Hampshire — 10 pay less, 6 pay more in the state — and #1,145 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $21 below, and against other municipal agencies $1,476 below.
Compare with another department
Put Londonderry 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 NH
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Londonderry | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keene Police Department | Municipal | 36 | $70,956 | +$4,292 | #883 |
| 2 | Portsmouth Police Department | Municipal | 64 | $70,060 | +$3,396 | #933 |
| 3 | Manchester Police Department | Municipal | 250 | $68,016 | +$1,352 | #1,052 |
| 4 | Concord Police Department | Municipal | 79 | $67,995 | +$1,331 | #1,057 |
| 5 | Greenland Police Department | Municipal | 8 | $67,700 | +$1,036 | #1,076 |
| 6 | New Hampshire State Police | State | 350 | $66,872 | +$208 | #1,129 |
| 8 | Jaffrey Police Department | Municipal | 10 | $65,850 | −$814 | #1,197 |
| 9 | Hampton Police Department | Municipal | 37 | $64,896 | −$1,768 | #1,273 |
| 10 | Derry Police Department | Municipal | 59 | $64,314 | −$2,350 | #1,304 |
| 11 | Durham Police Department | Municipal | 21 | $64,268 | −$2,396 | #1,305 |
| 12 | Rochester Police Department | Municipal | 59 | $63,960 | −$2,704 | #1,322 |
| 13 | Chesterfield Police Department | Municipal | 4 | $61,776 | −$4,888 | #1,464 |
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