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Marana 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.
Marana Police Department starts at $65,704 a year — about $31.59 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $981 below the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $2,436 below the median for municipal agencies.
How big the department isMarana Police Department reported 116 sworn officers and 30 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 1.8 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 65,094.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 Marana says about itself
Unparalleled Service, Unwavering Protection, Uncompromised Integrity.
What Marana does
Marana Police Department serves a fast-growing town of some 52,000 spread across 120 square miles north-west of Tucson, straddling the Pima and Pinal county line. It works to a community-oriented policing philosophy under the motto of unparalleled service, unwavering protection and uncompromised integrity, organising patrol into geographic districts within its patrol division. Alongside emergency response it provides crime prevention advice and employment fingerprinting, runs a citizens' police academy covering the components of local law enforcement, and takes community help through a Volunteers in Police Service programme.
Shifts at Marana
Marana's general orders set out two kinds of work beyond the roster: outside employment, meaning non-law-enforcement work for another employer, and special duty, meaning police services provided to a private employer under an agreement with the Town. Both need approval.
Special duty and outside employment are paid differently and approved separately, and they are easy to lose track of over a year. BlueShifts records off-duty jobs beside your shifts, and its off-duty statistical calculator shows what each is actually earning you.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 8 August 2026. Town of Marana Police Departm — open the source document
Current official recruitment page verified 8 August 2026; starting pay for Police Officer is $31.5885/hour = $65,704.08 annually; allowanc
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.
How this level compares
Where Marana 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. Marana starts at $65,704, so $2,436 below the municipal middle.
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Common questions
How much does a Marana Police Department officer make?
Marana Police Department starts a new officer on $65,704 a year, about $31.59 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 Town of Marana Police Departm.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Arizona?
It ranks #23 of 36 agencies we have verified in Arizona — 13 pay less, 22 pay more in the state — and #1,207 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $981 below, and against other municipal agencies $2,436 below.
What shifts do Marana Police Department officers work?
Marana's general orders set out two kinds of work beyond the roster: outside employment, meaning non-law-enforcement work for another employer, and special duty, meaning police services provided to a private employer under an agreement with the Town. Both need approval. That is the agency's own published wording; the pattern is drawn on this page.
Compare with another department
Put Marana 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 AZ
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Marana | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scottsdale Police Department | Municipal | 391 | $81,474 | +$15,770 | #440 |
| 2 | Tempe Police Department | Municipal | 353 | $79,977 | +$14,273 | #497 |
| 3 | Goodyear Police Department | Municipal | 174 | $77,147 | +$11,443 | #580 |
| 4 | Buckeye Police Department | Municipal | 133 | $76,003 | +$10,299 | #626 |
| 5 | Phoenix Police Department | Municipal | 2,490 | $75,847 | +$10,143 | #637 |
| 6 | Queen Creek Police Department | Municipal | 132 | $74,693 | +$8,989 | #689 |
| 7 | Chandler Police Department | Municipal | 348 | $74,610 | +$8,906 | #693 |
| 8 | Surprise Police Department | Municipal | 179 | $74,214 | +$8,510 | #707 |
| 9 | Peoria Police Department | Municipal | 234 | $74,194 | +$8,490 | #708 |
| 10 | Mesa Police Department | Municipal | 885 | $73,972 | +$8,268 | #720 |
| 11 | Glendale Police Department | Municipal | 406 | $73,389 | +$7,685 | #742 |
| 12 | Casa Grande Police Department | Municipal | 82 | $72,860 | +$7,156 | #768 |
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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