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Manassas 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.
Manassas Police Department starts at $68,453 a year — about $32.91 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $1,768 above the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $313 above the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Virginia run about 1% above the national average, so this is worth roughly $67,705 somewhere at average prices — $747 less than the headline figure. That average hides a wide spread: utilities at 92, where goods are 100. 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 isManassas Police Department reported 99 sworn officers and 30 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 2.2 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 43,966.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 Manassas says about itself
MCPD is dedicated to providing quality, professional public safety services that are modeled after the standards set by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA).
What Manassas does
The Manassas City Police Department serves the independent city of Manassas, Virginia, in Northern Virginia. Its Patrol Services Division is a team of sixty-four officers and support personnel providing round-the-clock police services to the city, worked on three permanent non-rotating shifts - day, evening and night - each on a five-four-five-four-five-five on and off schedule. The Department states that it models its services on the standards set by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 21 September 2026. City of Manassas, Police Department Recruitment — Pay and Benefits: "Starting Salary: $68,452.80". — open the source document
$68,452.80 is the City's own annual figure and no arithmetic has been applied to it. MANASSAS PRICES NO CADET CLASS: the page publishes one starting salary and names no academy, recruit or pre-service rate beneath it, so there is no lower training rate to reject and no academy-gated step to choose. Excluded from the figure: the $2,500 academy bonus and the $1,000 Spanish-language stipend, which the same page lists separately from the starting salary and which are a bonus and a credential premium rather than base pay. NAME TRAP: this is the CITY of Manassas's own department. Manassas Park has its own police department and Prince William County has its own police department, and all three are separate agencies in the same corner of Virginia. THE FIGURE CARRIES NO EFFECTIVE DATE. NEXT DOCUMENT: the City of Manassas adopted classification and pay plan, which would date this figure and supply earlier points.
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 Manassas 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. Manassas starts at $68,453, so $313 above the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Manassas Police Department officer make?
Manassas Police Department starts a new officer on $68,453 a year, about $32.91 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 Manassas, Police Department Recruitment — Pay and Benefits: "Starting Salary: $68,452.80"..
Is that good pay for a police officer in Virginia?
It ranks #8 of 42 agencies we have verified in Virginia — 34 pay less, 7 pay more in the state — and #1,024 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $1,768 above, and against other municipal agencies $313 above.
Compare with another department
Put Manassas 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 VA
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Manassas | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arlington County Police Department | County | 299 | $90,012 | +$21,559 | #269 |
| 2 | Falls Church Police Department | Municipal | 32 | $76,400 | +$7,947 | #605 |
| 3 | Alexandria Police Department | Municipal | 264 | $75,000 | +$6,547 | #677 |
| 4 | Fairfax County Police Department | County | 1,390 | $74,035 | +$5,582 | #716 |
| 5 | Prince William County Police Department | County | 656 | $74,000 | +$5,547 | #718 |
| 6 | Loudoun County Sheriff's Office | County | 648 | $70,955 | +$2,502 | #884 |
| 7 | Leesburg Police Department | Municipal | 74 | $68,500 | +$47 | #1,017 |
| 9 | Prince William County Sheriff's Office | County | — | $66,596 | −$1,857 | #1,151 |
| 10 | Henrico County Police Division | County | 628 | $65,959 | −$2,494 | #1,188 |
| 11 | Fairfax County Sheriff's Office | County | 433 | $64,997 | −$3,456 | #1,263 |
| 12 | Fredericksburg Police Department | Municipal | 71 | $64,000 | −$4,453 | #1,319 |
| 13 | Richmond Police Department | Municipal | 608 | $63,360 | −$5,093 | #1,360 |
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