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Morrow County Sheriff's Office 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.
Morrow County Sheriff's Office starts at $60,675 a year — about $29.17 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $6,010 below the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $2,885 below the median for county agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Oregon run about 3% above the national average, so this is worth roughly $58,702 somewhere at average prices — $1,973 less than the headline figure. Most of that is rent, at 109 against a national average of 100, where goods are 105. Based on state-wide price levels, because this agency is not tied to a single metro area, from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2024. The salary above is what the employer publishes; this line is our arithmetic on it, and nothing on this site is ranked on it.
How big the department isMorrow County Sheriff's Office reported 34 sworn officers and 13 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025.No rate is shown: this agency does not police a single population the FBI publishes a figure for. Reporting to the FBI is voluntary, so a count can reflect a partial return as easily as a small agency, and the FBI asks that agencies not be compared on staffing. Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, Full-time Law Enforcement Employees, 2025.
What Morrow County says about itself
The Mission of the Morrow County Sheriff's Office is to protect the rights of all people and to promote safety, security and livability for all Morrow County citizens and visitors.
What Morrow County does
The Morrow County Sheriff's Office polices the north-central Oregon wheat and wind country from Heppner, running uniformed patrol, criminal investigations, marine patrol, search and rescue, court security, a school resource officer, the jail, the county 911 center, parole and probation and an off-highway vehicle park. Its deputies are represented by Teamsters Local 223 on a thirteen-step scale that prices the three DPSST certificate levels as separate grades - Basic, Intermediate and Advanced - with no trainee or recruit class beneath them.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 21 September 2026. Morrow County Master Pay Scale, July 1, 2025 — Teamsters (MCSO) scale, grade 20, title line "Parole & Probation Officer, Intermediate / Deputy Sheriff, Basic": Step 1 reads "$ 29.17" hourly, "$ 5,056" monthly and "$ 60,675" annual across the grade's three rate rows. — open the source document
$60,675 is the County's OWN annual figure for grade 20 Step 1 and no arithmetic has been applied to it. THE GRADE'S THREE RATE ROWS CARRY NO LABELS AND THE ARITHMETIC IDENTIFIES THEM: $29.17 x 2,080 is $60,673.60, and $29.17 x 2,080 / 12 is $5,056, so the rows are hourly, monthly and annual in that order. Reading the $5,056 row as bi-weekly - which is how a summarising fetch reported it - would have made the annual $131,456, which nothing on the page supports. THE CERTIFICATE LEVEL IS THE GRADE, AND BASIC IS THE BOTTOM OF IT: grade 20 is Deputy Sheriff, Basic, grade 21 is Deputy Sheriff, Intermediate at $63,467, and grade 22 is Deputy Sheriff, Advanced at $66,369, which are the three DPSST certificate levels priced as separate grades rather than as premiums. Nothing sits beneath Basic and there is no trainee, recruit or cadet class anywhere on the scale. Excluded from the figure: the twelve steps above Step 1, which run to $83,958, and both higher certificate grades. THE DATE IS A YEAR BEHIND EVERY OTHER UNIT AND THAT IS STATED RATHER THAN HIDDEN: on the County's Pay Scales page the AFSCME General, AFSCME Road, Non-Represented and Sheriff's Sergeants scales are all dated 1 July 2026 and ONLY the Teamsters (MCSO) one is dated 1 July 2025. The reason is visible on the County's own Collective Bargaining Agreements page: the deputies' agreement, "Morrow County Sheriff's Association, Teamsters Local 223", ran July 2023 to June 2026 and NO SUCCESSOR IS PUBLISHED, while the Sergeants signed a new one running 19 March 2026 to 30 June 2027 and got a 2026 scale with it. So this is the County's current published deputies' scale, standing on a lapsed agreement. RE-READ IT WHEN THE SUCCESSOR APPEARS.
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 Morrow County 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. Morrow County starts at $60,675, so $2,890 below the county middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Morrow County Sheriff's Office officer make?
Morrow County Sheriff's Office starts a new officer on $60,675 a year, about $29.17 an hour on a 2,080-hour year. That is base salary before overtime, bonuses, education incentives, shift differentials and locality pay, so most serving officers earn more. The figure comes from Morrow County Master Pay Scale, July 1, 2025 — Teamsters (MCSO) scale, grade 20, title line "Parole & Probation Officer, Intermediate / Deputy Sheriff, Basic": Step 1 reads "$ 29.17" hourly, "$ 5,056" monthly and "$ 60,675" annual across the grade's three rate rows..
Is that good pay for a police officer in Oregon?
It ranks #48 of 53 agencies we have verified in Oregon — 5 pay less, 47 pay more in the state — and #1,521 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $6,010 below, and against other county agencies $2,885 below.
Compare with another department
Put Morrow County Sheriff's Office 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 OR
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Morrow | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tigard Police Department | Municipal | 71 | $86,596 | +$25,921 | #329 |
| 2 | Bend Police Department | Municipal | 107 | $86,432 | +$25,757 | #331 |
| 3 | Washington County Sheriff's Office | County | 219 | $85,738 | +$25,063 | #340 |
| 4 | Gresham Police Department | Municipal | 123 | $84,968 | +$24,293 | #354 |
| 5 | Portland Police Bureau | Municipal | 809 | $84,000 | +$23,325 | #373 |
| 6 | Hillsboro Police Department | Municipal | 144 | $83,988 | +$23,313 | #376 |
| 7 | Clackamas County Sheriff's Office | County | 204 | $83,053 | +$22,378 | #402 |
| 8 | Corvallis Police Department | Municipal | 67 | $82,747 | +$22,072 | #412 |
| 9 | Lane County Sheriff's Office | County | 75 | $82,181 | +$21,506 | #423 |
| 10 | Multnomah County Sheriff's Office | County | 132 | $82,035 | +$21,360 | #427 |
| 11 | Tualatin Police Department | Municipal | 38 | $81,973 | +$21,298 | #428 |
| 12 | Oregon City Police Department | Municipal | 38 | $81,564 | +$20,889 | #438 |
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