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Manalapan 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.
Manalapan Police Department starts at $78,280 a year — about $37.63 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $11,595 above the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $10,140 above the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Florida run about 3% above the national average, so this is worth roughly $75,696 somewhere at average prices — $2,584 less than the headline figure. Most of that is rent, at 122 against a national average of 100, 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.
How big the department isManalapan Police Department reported 13 sworn officers and 4 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 29.1 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 446.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 Manalapan says about itself
The members of the Manalapan Police Department are committed to providing the highest level of service to the community. Our desire to protect and respect the freedoms and rights of those we encounter are demonstrated by excellence through service.
What Manalapan does
The Manalapan Police Department is the municipal force for the Town of Manalapan, a barrier-island town of about 420 residents in Palm Beach County between Lantana and Ocean Ridge. It runs its own dispatch center reporting to the Chief of Police, and publishes vacation house checks, construction site checks, Fail-Safe lock boxes and extra-duty details among its services to residents.
Manalapan’s rotation, in BlueShifts
Article 25 defines shift work as seven 12-hour shifts in a fourteen-day cycle: two days on, two off, three on, two off, two on, three off. Day shifts run 0600 to 1800 and night shifts 1800 to 0600. Officers bid their shift assignment by seniority once a year; sergeants bid annually and then rotate between day and night every three months.
The rotation template screen — enter the cycle and the start date, and you are done.
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Every month, already filled in — no typing, however far ahead you look.
September 2026
This cycle has its own page: how it works, and how to build it.
Two on, two off, three on, two off, two on, three off is a fortnightly cycle, so no two weeks look alike and your days off walk through the calendar. BlueShifts builds the pattern once and fills every month ahead of it, marks the tour on each worked day, and keeps the night differential and the $75-an-hour private details on the same screen as the roster they have to fit around.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 1 September 2026. Article 28, Wages, and the Manalapan Police Officer Step Plan, Collective Bargaining Agreement between the Town of Manalapan and the Palm Beach County Police Benevolent Association, Inc., 1 October 2026 - 30 September 2029, signed 12 May 2026 — open the source document
Their source is effective 1 January 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.
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How this level compares
Where Manalapan 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. Manalapan starts at $78,280, so $10,140 above the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Manalapan Police Department officer make?
Manalapan Police Department starts a new officer on $78,280 a year, about $37.63 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 Article 28, Wages, and the Manalapan Police Officer Step Plan, Collective Bargaining Agreement between the Town of Manalapan and the Palm Beach County Police Benevolent Association, Inc., 1 October 2026 - 30 September 2029, signed 12 May 2026.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Florida?
It ranks #12 of 303 agencies we have verified in Florida — 291 pay less, 11 pay more in the state — and #549 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $11,595 above, and against other municipal agencies $10,140 above.
What shifts do Manalapan Police Department officers work?
Article 25 defines shift work as seven 12-hour shifts in a fourteen-day cycle: two days on, two off, three on, two off, two on, three off. Day shifts run 0600 to 1800 and night shifts 1800 to 0600. Officers bid their shift assignment by seniority once a year; sergeants bid annually and then rotate between day and night every three months. That is the agency's own published wording; the pattern is drawn on this page.
Compare with another department
Put Manalapan 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 FL
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Manalapan | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boca Raton Police Services Department | Municipal | 195 | $91,007 | +$12,727 | #244 |
| 2 | Fort Lauderdale Police Department | Municipal | 565 | $81,723 | +$3,443 | #433 |
| 3 | Plantation Police Department | Municipal | 164 | $81,000 | +$2,720 | #459 |
| 4 | Hillsboro Beach Police Department | Municipal | 15 | $80,954 | +$2,674 | #461 |
| 5 | Pinecrest Police Department | Municipal | 47 | $80,912 | +$2,632 | #464 |
| 6 | Sunny Isles Beach Police Department | Municipal | 65 | $80,000 | +$1,720 | #496 |
| 7 | Indian Creek Village Public Safety Department | Municipal | 10 | $79,850 | +$1,570 | #500 |
| 8 | Sunrise Police Department | Municipal | 190 | $79,071 | +$791 | #520 |
| 9 | Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office | County | 1,720 | $78,828 | +$548 | #526 |
| 10 | Aventura Police Department | Municipal | 91 | $78,556 | +$276 | #536 |
| 11 | Longboat Key Police Department | Municipal | 19 | $78,430 | +$150 | #543 |
| 13 | Coral Springs Police Department | Municipal | 222 | $77,516 | −$764 | #572 |
Base pay is only part of the year
Whatever the figure above, the rotation is what decides your year — which weekends you lose, when the changeovers land, what you can plan around. Save yours once and BlueShifts shows it a year ahead, with the off-duty jobs you take and what each one paid.
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