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Milford 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.
Milford Police Department starts at $81,237 a year — about $39.06 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $12,847 above the median of the 1,681 agencies on this list, and $9,973 above the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Connecticut run about 4% above the national average, so this is worth roughly $78,407 somewhere at average prices — $2,830 less than the headline figure. Most of that is utilities, at 146 against a national average of 100, where goods are 97. 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 isMilford Police Department reported 105 sworn officers and 24 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 1.9 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 53,760.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.
About Milford
Milford Police Department recruits full-time Entry Level Police Officers to serve the community and provides a 40-hour work week, patrolman salary progression, uniforms, pension, insurance and educational incentives.
Milford’s rotation, in BlueShifts
Milford PD advertises “a competitive pay structure and a 5/3 schedule that supports work-life balance” — five days on, three days off.
The rotation template screen — enter the cycle and the start date, and you are done.
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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.
Milford publishes the days on and off but not which are days and which are nights. In BlueShifts you choose that yourself — every shift can be a day, a night or a 24-hour tour, and the calendar marks it with a sun, a moon or a clock.
A 5/3 runs on an eight-day cycle, so it never lines up with the week and your three-day break walks steadily backwards through the calendar. BlueShifts builds the eight-day cycle once and projects it forward, which is the only practical way to see which weekends you get before the roster is posted.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 10 August 2026. official City of Milford Police Department APPLY NOW page — 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.
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How this level compares
Where Milford 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 | $35,006 | $71,287 | $163,619 | 1046 |
| County | $36,492 | $65,374 | $132,263 | 416 |
| Special jurisdiction | $31,200 | $60,195 | $107,954 | 69 |
| State | $33,994 | $64,998 | $102,692 | 143 |
| 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 $2,200 more than the middle municipal agency and about $8,100 more than the middle county agency and about $13,300 more than the middle special jurisdiction agency and about $8,500 more than the middle state agency and about $45,300 more than the middle territory agency. Milford starts at $81,237, so $9,950 above the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Milford Police Department officer make?
Milford Police Department starts a new officer on $81,237 a year, about $39.06 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 official City of Milford Police Department APPLY NOW page.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Connecticut?
It ranks #3 of 11 agencies we have verified in Connecticut — 8 pay less, 2 pay more in the state — and #371 of 1,681 nationally. Against the national median it is $12,847 above, and against other municipal agencies $9,973 above.
What shifts do Milford Police Department officers work?
Milford PD advertises “a competitive pay structure and a 5/3 schedule that supports work-life balance” — five days on, three days off. That is the agency's own published wording; the pattern is drawn on this page.
Compare with another department
Put Milford 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 CT
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Milford | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Windsor Police Department | Municipal | 41 | $87,483 | +$6,246 | #256 |
| 2 | Norwalk Police Department | Municipal | 184 | $82,116 | +$878 | #346 |
| 4 | Greenwich Police Department | Municipal | 142 | $78,704 | −$2,533 | #433 |
| 5 | Connecticut State Police | State | 955 | $75,367 | −$5,870 | #543 |
| 6 | Stamford Police Department | Municipal | 278 | $72,881 | −$8,356 | #630 |
| 7 | Wallingford Police Department | Municipal | 73 | $71,448 | −$9,789 | #697 |
| 8 | Danbury Police Department | Municipal | 156 | $68,499 | −$12,738 | #835 |
| 9 | East Hartford Police Department | Municipal | 114 | $67,696 | −$13,541 | #878 |
| 10 | Hartford Police Department | Municipal | 373 | $67,464 | −$13,773 | #895 |
| 11 | Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection — Environmental Conservation Police | State | — | $53,684 | −$27,553 | #1,481 |
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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