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Moline 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.
Moline Police Department starts at $71,102 a year — about $34.18 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $2,712 above the median of the 1,681 agencies on this list, and $162 below the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL run about 11% below the national average, so this goes about as far as $79,819 would somewhere at average prices — $8,717 more than the headline figure. Most of that is rent, at 68 against a national average of 100, where goods are 94. Based on price levels for this metropolitan 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 isMoline Police Department reported 73 sworn officers and 9 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 1.7 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 42,331.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 Moline says about itself
Every day, the Moline Police Department works hard to improve the safety and quality of life in our community by earning the trust of those we serve, building partnerships, encouraging innovative problem-solving, and maintaining the peace.
What Moline does
The Moline Police Department says it serves and protects the citizens and visitors of Moline while striving for the highest levels of professionalism and integrity. Its mission is to improve community safety and quality of life by earning public trust, building partnerships, encouraging innovative problem solving and maintaining the peace. The department identifies professionalism, teamwork and integrity as core values
Shifts at Moline
The Neighborhood Policing Bureau is comprised of 48 sworn officers and contains three Patrol Divisions, the K9 Unit, the Crisis Containment Unit and the Field Training Unit, handling roughly 60,000 calls for service a year.
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Where the figure comes from
Checked 8 August 2026. City of Moline of — open the source document
Opened 12 January 2026; continuous 2026 recruitment; official posting explicitly lists New Entry Starting Pay at $71,102 per year and the salary schedule minimum at $71,102.10 annually. Lateral placement and add-ons 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 Moline 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. Moline starts at $71,102, so $185 below the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Moline Police Department officer make?
Moline Police Department starts a new officer on $71,102 a year, about $34.18 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 City of Moline of.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Illinois?
It ranks #27 of 35 agencies we have verified in Illinois — 8 pay less, 26 pay more in the state — and #717 of 1,681 nationally. Against the national median it is $2,712 above, and against other municipal agencies $162 below.
What shifts do Moline Police Department officers work?
The Neighborhood Policing Bureau is comprised of 48 sworn officers and contains three Patrol Divisions, the K9 Unit, the Crisis Containment Unit and the Field Training Unit, handling roughly 60,000 calls for service a year. That is the agency's own published wording; the pattern is drawn on this page.
Compare with another department
Put Moline 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 IL
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Moline | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vernon Hills Police Department | Municipal | 44 | $94,460 | +$23,358 | #151 |
| 2 | Wilmette Police Department | Municipal | 45 | $93,156 | +$22,054 | #165 |
| 3 | Aurora Police Department | Municipal | 328 | $92,248 | +$21,146 | #176 |
| 4 | Des Plaines Police Department | Municipal | 97 | $91,440 | +$20,338 | #186 |
| 5 | Highland Park Police Department | Municipal | 60 | $91,158 | +$20,056 | #191 |
| 6 | Illinois State Police | State | 1,821 | $90,828 | +$19,726 | #199 |
| 7 | River Forest Police Department | Municipal | 26 | $90,106 | +$19,004 | #213 |
| 8 | Elgin Police Department | Municipal | 203 | $88,274 | +$17,172 | #245 |
| 9 | Lake County Sheriff's Office | County | 113 | $87,297 | +$16,195 | #259 |
| 10 | Woodridge Police Department | Municipal | 47 | $84,781 | +$13,679 | #294 |
| 11 | DeKalb Police Department | Municipal | 72 | $83,449 | +$12,347 | #326 |
| 12 | Rolling Meadows Police Department | Municipal | 49 | $81,439 | +$10,337 | #362 |
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