Home › Police pay › Delaware › Middletown Police Department
Middletown 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.
Middletown Police Department starts at $74,550 a year — about $35.84 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $7,865 above the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $6,410 above the median for municipal agencies.
How big the department isMiddletown Police Department reported 38 sworn officers and 9 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 1.4 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 26,295.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 Middletown says about itself
The Middletown Police Department is committed to providing exceptional law enforcement services to the residents, businesses, and visitors of our community. Our mission is to protect life and property, prevent crime, and enhance the quality of life for all who call Middletown home.
What Middletown does
Middletown says it provides law-enforcement services to residents, businesses, and visitors. Its mission is to protect life and property, prevent crime, enhance quality of life, and use community-oriented policing to build trust and solve problems.
Middletown’s rotation, in BlueShifts
Shift Schedule: 11 ½ hour days, 4 days on, 4 days off.
The rotation template screen — enter the cycle and the start date, and you are done.
DayNight24 hrsOff
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.
An eight-day cycle against a seven-day week means the pattern never repeats on the same weekdays. BlueShifts holds the rotation and fills the calendar, so you can see which weekends are yours months out.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 16 August 2026. Town of Middletown Police Department — Benefits, the department's own site — open the source document
Their source is effective 10 August 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.
BlueShifts. Plan Your Year. Own Your Time.
The shift calendar built for your rotation, off-duty work, and life on and off the clock.
Save your shift schedule once and BlueShifts fills the rest of the year in.
How this level compares
Where Middletown 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. Middletown starts at $74,550, so $6,410 above the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Middletown Police Department officer make?
Middletown Police Department starts a new officer on $74,550 a year, about $35.84 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 Town of Middletown Police Department — Benefits, the department's own site.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Delaware?
It ranks #4 of 18 agencies we have verified in Delaware — 14 pay less, 3 pay more in the state — and #696 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $7,865 above, and against other municipal agencies $6,410 above.
What shifts do Middletown Police Department officers work?
Shift Schedule: 11 ½ hour days, 4 days on, 4 days off. That is the agency's own published wording; the pattern is drawn on this page.
Compare with another department
Put Middletown 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 DE
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Middletown | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Delaware State Police | State | 783 | $91,265 | +$16,715 | #238 |
| 2 | New Castle City Police Department | Municipal | — | $75,338 | +$788 | #660 |
| 3 | University of Delaware Police Department | Special jurisdiction | 48 | $74,679 | +$129 | #690 |
| 5 | New Castle County Police | County | 414 | $74,453 | −$97 | #702 |
| 6 | Georgetown Police Department | Municipal | 21 | $74,000 | −$550 | #719 |
| 7 | Millsboro Police Department | Municipal | 17 | $73,560 | −$990 | #733 |
| 8 | Dover Police Department | Municipal | 101 | $72,000 | −$2,550 | #814 |
| 9 | Ocean View Police Department | Municipal | 14 | $72,000 | −$2,550 | #816 |
| 10 | Newark Police Department | Municipal | 72 | $70,000 | −$4,550 | #936 |
| 11 | Selbyville Police Department | Municipal | 10 | $68,788 | −$5,762 | #1,005 |
| 12 | Seaford Police Department | Municipal | 31 | $68,474 | −$6,076 | #1,021 |
| 13 | Milford Police Department | Municipal | 35 | $67,971 | −$6,579 | #1,059 |
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.
Scan to install
