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Mendon 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.
Mendon Police Department starts at $62,060 a year — about $29.84 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $4,624 below the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $6,080 below the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Massachusetts run about 6% above the national average, so this is worth roughly $58,682 somewhere at average prices — $3,378 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.
How big the department isMendon Police Department reported 13 sworn officers and 2 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 2.0 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 6,479.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 Mendon says about itself
We are Mendon. We bring our families here. We raise our kids here. We work hard to uphold the traditions and sense of community in our town, and we expect to be held to an extremely high standard.
What Mendon does
The Mendon Police Department serves about 6,000 residents across eighteen square miles in Worcester County, and is accredited by the Massachusetts Police Accreditation Commission. It describes its work as much about helping people and enhancing quality of life as about enforcing laws, and credits the town's low crime rate to the partnership between the department and the community, with community policing its stated approach to the problems behind public safety issues. Its patrol division deploys sector officers against analysed crime trends and runs an online property watch for residents away from home, alongside a citizens police academy and a police explorer post
Where the figure comes from
Checked 6 September 2026. Mendon Police Department employment opportunity notice, Full-Time Police Officer, published by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts — open the source document
The Department's own notice on Chief David Kurczy's letterhead, dated 30 July 2025 and hosted by the Commonwealth, read 6 September 2026: starting pay under the current collective bargaining agreement is $1,193.47 a week rising to $1,521.18 depending on experience, so the entry rate is $1,193.47 x 52 = $62,060.44 a year. Applicants must be 21, hold a high school diploma or equivalent and have graduated from OR BE ABLE TO ATTEND a full-time MCJTC/MPTC academy, so neither certification nor prior sworn service is required to start. Stipends are stated separately and are excluded
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 Mendon 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. Mendon starts at $62,060, so $6,080 below the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Mendon Police Department officer make?
Mendon Police Department starts a new officer on $62,060 a year, about $29.84 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 Mendon Police Department employment opportunity notice, Full-Time Police Officer, published by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Massachusetts?
It ranks #15 of 19 agencies we have verified in Massachusetts — 4 pay less, 14 pay more in the state — and #1,444 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $4,624 below, and against other municipal agencies $6,080 below.
Compare with another department
Put Mendon 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 MA
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Mendon | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Everett Police Department | Municipal | 120 | $95,568 | +$33,508 | #178 |
| 2 | Nantucket Police Department | Municipal | 40 | $92,144 | +$30,084 | #225 |
| 3 | Massachusetts State Police | State | 2,565 | $80,213 | +$18,152 | #491 |
| 4 | Tufts University Police Department | Special jurisdiction | 52 | $75,962 | +$13,901 | #632 |
| 5 | Barnstable Police Department | Municipal | 109 | $75,400 | +$13,340 | #655 |
| 6 | Boston Police Department | Municipal | 2,172 | $71,861 | +$9,800 | #822 |
| 7 | Plymouth Police Department | Municipal | 108 | $67,927 | +$5,866 | #1,062 |
| 8 | West Stockbridge Police Department | Municipal | — | $66,797 | +$4,736 | #1,133 |
| 9 | Haverhill Police Department | Municipal | 111 | $66,652 | +$4,591 | #1,146 |
| 10 | Rowley Police Department | Municipal | 10 | $66,397 | +$4,336 | #1,168 |
| 11 | Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs — Environmental Police | State | — | $65,447 | +$3,387 | #1,222 |
| 12 | Brockton Police Department | Municipal | 179 | $63,971 | +$1,910 | #1,321 |
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