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Longview 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.
Longview Police Department starts at $67,070 a year — about $32.25 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $1,320 below the median of the 1,681 agencies on this list, and $4,195 below the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Texas run about 3% below the national average, so this goes about as far as $69,103 would somewhere at average prices — $2,034 more than the headline figure. That average hides a wide spread: utilities at 88, where goods are 98. 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.
What Longview says about itself
We are committed to working with our citizens to address those issues which affect the quality of life in our community.
What Longview does
Longview Police Department is authorized for 175 police officers and 62 civilian staff in East Texas, working a para-military structure under a chief, an assistant chief and two deputy chiefs. The city is divided into eight beats with a sergeant over each and officers assigned to a beat for a year, and the department runs an accredited academy whose TCOLE courses are open to other agencies for a nominal fee
Where the figure comes from
Checked 20 August 2026. City of Longview — Longview Police Department, Salary and Step Pay (Step Pay Table) — open the source document
Longview Police Department's own Salary and Step Pay page, which prints the department's Step Pay Table: Police Officer - Entry $67,069.68 a year, rising to $69,101.05 at one year and $93,774.93 at twenty-five years. The same page links the city's recruiting flyer titled 'Recruiting Flyer with pay scale FY25-26'. Longview publishes no separate cadet rate: its New Recruits page states the department hires new recruits, places them in a police academy as cadets, and pays 'Entry-level officer salary beginning at start of police academy', so this one rate runs through the academy, seventeen weeks of field training and the first year. No prior service is required, and this is not a lateral rate: the department trains non-certified hires itself and prices lateral entry separately.
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 Longview 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. Longview starts at $67,070, so $4,217 below the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Longview Police Department officer make?
Longview Police Department starts a new officer on $67,070 a year, about $32.25 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 Longview — Longview Police Department, Salary and Step Pay (Step Pay Table).
Is that good pay for a police officer in Texas?
It ranks #95 of 140 agencies we have verified in Texas — 45 pay less, 94 pay more in the state — and #912 of 1,681 nationally. Against the national median it is $1,320 below, and against other municipal agencies $4,195 below.
Compare with another department
Put Longview 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 TX
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Longview | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Allen Police Department | Municipal | 153 | $91,106 | +$24,036 | #192 |
| 2 | Frisco Police Department | Municipal | 270 | $90,750 | +$23,680 | #200 |
| 3 | Plano Police Department | Municipal | 414 | $90,729 | +$23,659 | #201 |
| 4 | Grand Prairie Police Department | Municipal | 287 | $90,000 | +$22,930 | #216 |
| 5 | Hurst Police Department | Municipal | — | $87,048 | +$19,978 | #264 |
| 6 | Lewisville Police Department | Municipal | 181 | $86,268 | +$19,198 | #276 |
| 7 | Coppell Police Department | Municipal | 60 | $84,968 | +$17,898 | #293 |
| 8 | Rockwall Police Department | Municipal | 95 | $84,448 | +$17,378 | #300 |
| 9 | The Colony Police Department | Municipal | — | $84,082 | +$17,012 | #306 |
| 10 | Baytown Police Department | Municipal | — | $84,049 | +$16,979 | #307 |
| 11 | McKinney Police Department | Municipal | 248 | $83,992 | +$16,923 | #309 |
| 12 | Mesquite Police Department | Municipal | 260 | $83,869 | +$16,799 | #312 |
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