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Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs — Environmental Police 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.
Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs — Environmental Police starts at $65,447 a year — about $31.46 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $1,238 below the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $281 above the median for state agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Massachusetts run about 6% above the national average, so this is worth roughly $61,885 somewhere at average prices — $3,563 less than the headline figure. Most of that is utilities, at 152 against a national average of 100, where goods are 99. 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 Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs — Environmental says about itself
The mission of the Massachusetts Environmental Police is to protect the environment and natural resources of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts through enforcement, education, and public outreach.
What Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs — Environmental does
Massachusetts Environmental Police is the Commonwealth's specialized natural-resource law-enforcement organization. Officers enforce fish and wildlife, boating, off-highway vehicle and environmental laws and provide public-safety and natural-resource protection services throughout Massachusetts.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 8 August 2026. Commonwealth of Massachusetts — 2026 Environmental Police Officer A/B Examination; Commonwealth Unit 5 Public Safety salary schedule — open the source document
Their source is effective 12 July 2026.
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 Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs — Environmental 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. Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs — Environmental starts at $65,447, so $281 above the state middle.
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How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs — Environmental Police officer make?
Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs — Environmental Police starts a new officer on $65,447 a year, about $31.46 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 Commonwealth of Massachusetts — 2026 Environmental Police Officer A/B Examination; Commonwealth Unit 5 Public Safety salary schedule.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Massachusetts?
It ranks #11 of 19 agencies we have verified in Massachusetts — 8 pay less, 10 pay more in the state — and #1,222 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $1,238 below, and against other state agencies $281 above.
Compare with another department
Put Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs — Environmental Police 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 MA
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Massachusetts | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Everett Police Department | Municipal | 120 | $95,568 | +$30,121 | #178 |
| 2 | Nantucket Police Department | Municipal | 40 | $92,144 | +$26,697 | #225 |
| 3 | Massachusetts State Police | State | 2,565 | $80,213 | +$14,765 | #491 |
| 4 | Tufts University Police Department | Special jurisdiction | 52 | $75,962 | +$10,514 | #632 |
| 5 | Barnstable Police Department | Municipal | 109 | $75,400 | +$9,953 | #655 |
| 6 | Boston Police Department | Municipal | 2,172 | $71,861 | +$6,414 | #822 |
| 7 | Plymouth Police Department | Municipal | 108 | $67,927 | +$2,479 | #1,062 |
| 8 | West Stockbridge Police Department | Municipal | — | $66,797 | +$1,350 | #1,133 |
| 9 | Haverhill Police Department | Municipal | 111 | $66,652 | +$1,205 | #1,146 |
| 10 | Rowley Police Department | Municipal | 10 | $66,397 | +$949 | #1,168 |
| 12 | Brockton Police Department | Municipal | 179 | $63,971 | −$1,476 | #1,321 |
| 13 | Chicopee Police Department | Municipal | 138 | $63,169 | −$2,279 | #1,373 |
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