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Lyon County Sheriff's Office 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.
Lyon County Sheriff's Office starts at $64,764 a year — about $31.14 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $1,920 below the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $1,205 above the median for county agencies.
How big the department isLyon County Sheriff's Office reported 63 sworn officers and 37 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025.No rate is shown: this agency does not police a single population the FBI publishes a figure for. 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 Lyon County says about itself
The Lyon County Sheriff's Office is committed to aggressively and professionally enforcing the law and protecting our communities against those who choose a life of crime over our quality of life.
What Lyon County does
The Lyon County Sheriff's Office polices a long, broken county east and south-east of Reno - Fernley, Dayton, Silver Springs, Yerington and Smith Valley - running patrol, investigations, dispatch, records, a K-9 unit and search and rescue, along with a Junior Deputy programme and Volunteers in Policing. Its deputies, sergeants and lieutenants are represented by the Lyon County Sheriff's Employees' Association on a ten-step table priced separately from the county-wide salary tables.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 22 September 2026. Lyon County Sheriff's Employees' Association Salary Table FY25-FY26, headed "Effective first full pay period after July 1, 2025": under DEPUTIES, Step 1 reads $31.1367 an hour and $64,764.34 a year. — open the source document
$64,764.34 is the County's OWN annual figure for Deputies Step 1 and no arithmetic has been applied to it; the table prints hourly and annual side by side and they agree at 2,080 hours ($31.1367 x 2,080 = $64,764.34 exactly). DEPUTIES IS THE BOTTOM BLOCK OF THE TABLE. It carries three blocks - DEPUTIES, SERGEANTS from $79,669.82 and LIEUTENANTS from $93,175.89 - and nothing sits beneath Deputies: no recruit, cadet, trainee or probationary line anywhere on it. The County's Master Classification List confirms where the class is priced, listing "Deputy Sheriff" against "LCSEA Salary Table" rather than against the county-wide master salary table, so this is the right document for the class. Excluded from the figure: Steps 2 to 10, which reach $80,881.63; and both supervisory blocks. THE TABLE IS A YEAR OLD AND THE COUNTY HAS NOT REPLACED IT. Lyon publishes Master Salary Tables for FY26-FY27 and FY27-FY28 and a Management Pay Plan for FY27-FY28, but the only Sheriff's Employees' Association table on its Salaries page is the FY25-FY26 one, and the agreement the Nevada Employee-Management Relations Board holds for this unit is likewise headed "Fiscal Year 2025-2026". So the deputies are the unit whose published table has not moved on. RE-READ WHEN AN FY26-FY27 LCSEA TABLE APPEARS.
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 Lyon County 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. Lyon County starts at $64,764, so $1,199 above the county middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Lyon County Sheriff's Office officer make?
Lyon County Sheriff's Office starts a new officer on $64,764 a year, about $31.14 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 Lyon County Sheriff's Employees' Association Salary Table FY25-FY26, headed "Effective first full pay period after July 1, 2025": under DEPUTIES, Step 1 reads $31.1367 an hour and $64,764.34 a year..
Is that good pay for a police officer in Nevada?
It ranks #12 of 26 agencies we have verified in Nevada — 14 pay less, 11 pay more in the state — and #1,278 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $1,920 below, and against other county agencies $1,205 above.
Compare with another department
Put Lyon County Sheriff's Office 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 NV
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Lyon | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nevada Gaming Control Board — Enforcement Division | State | 63 | $102,692 | +$37,928 | #103 |
| 2 | Boulder City Police Department | Municipal | 35 | $75,941 | +$11,176 | #633 |
| 3 | Washoe County Sheriff's Office | County | 465 | $75,296 | +$10,532 | #661 |
| 4 | Sparks Police Department | Municipal | 122 | $74,360 | +$9,596 | #703 |
| 5 | Henderson Police Department | Municipal | 534 | $71,885 | +$7,120 | #820 |
| 6 | Reno Police Department | Municipal | 336 | $68,890 | +$4,125 | #999 |
| 7 | North Las Vegas Police Department | Municipal | 315 | $68,099 | +$3,335 | #1,048 |
| 8 | Nevada State Police — Highway Patrol | State | — | $67,939 | +$3,175 | #1,061 |
| 9 | Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department | Municipal | 3,226 | $67,662 | +$2,898 | #1,081 |
| 10 | Douglas County Sheriff's Office | County | 104 | $66,851 | +$2,087 | #1,131 |
| 11 | Churchill County Sheriff's Office | County | 40 | $65,312 | +$548 | #1,238 |
| 13 | Clark County Office of Public Safety | Municipal | — | $64,022 | −$742 | #1,316 |
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