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Murray City 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.
Murray City Police Department starts at $68,890 a year — about $33.12 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $2,205 above the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $750 above the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Utah run about 1% below the national average, so this goes about as far as $69,681 would somewhere at average prices — $792 more than the headline figure. That average hides a wide spread: utilities at 79, where goods are 96. 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.
What Murray City says about itself
The mission of the Murray City Police Department is to provide a safe and peaceful environment for people to live and work.
What Murray City does
Murray City Police Department runs a Master Officer Program for officers who stay at the rank, fields a motor squad, and helps officers buy in the city through an employee down-payment assistance programme
Where the figure comes from
Checked 21 August 2026. Murray City official “Join Murray City Police Department” page, Pay and Benefits — open the source document
$68,889.60. The city's own recruiting page states “Pay Scale - Police Officer ranges: $33.12 - $45.58 with yearly step increases”; $33.12 x 2,080 = $68,889.60. NO PRIOR SERVICE IS REQUIRED: the same page says “Murray City is recruiting for both new and lateral transfer Police Officers”, and prices the lateral treatment separately — “1-for-1: Years of service honored for lateral candidates up to 8 years (including prior Corrections experience)” — so the range floor is the new-hire rate. EXCLUDED as above base: shift differential of 2.5% afternoons and 5% nights, the Master Officer Program top-out wage of $49.41, $3,500 annual tuition reimbursement and the Employee Down Payment Assistance Program.
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.
How this level compares
Where Murray City 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. Murray City starts at $68,890, so $750 above the municipal middle.
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Common questions
How much does a Murray City Police Department officer make?
Murray City Police Department starts a new officer on $68,890 a year, about $33.12 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 Murray City official “Join Murray City Police Department” page, Pay and Benefits.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Utah?
It ranks #8 of 31 agencies we have verified in Utah — 23 pay less, 7 pay more in the state — and #1,000 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $2,205 above, and against other municipal agencies $750 above.
Compare with another department
Put Murray City 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 UT
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Murray | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Salt Lake City Police Department | Municipal | 589 | $76,315 | +$7,426 | #612 |
| 2 | Santa Clara Police Department | Municipal | — | $75,982 | +$7,093 | #629 |
| 3 | Taylorsville Police Department | Municipal | — | $75,941 | +$7,051 | #634 |
| 4 | Utah Highway Patrol | State | 536 | $75,878 | +$6,989 | #636 |
| 5 | Sandy Police Department | Municipal | 115 | $73,112 | +$4,222 | #753 |
| 6 | West Valley City Police Department | Municipal | — | $73,045 | +$4,155 | #757 |
| 7 | Cottonwood Heights Police Department | Municipal | 43 | $69,763 | +$874 | #958 |
| 9 | Unified Police Department of Greater Salt Lake | Municipal | — | $68,099 | −$791 | #1,050 |
| 10 | South Salt Lake Police Department | Municipal | 71 | $66,997 | −$1,893 | #1,120 |
| 11 | Orem Police Department | Municipal | 94 | $66,768 | −$2,122 | #1,137 |
| 12 | Moab Police Department | Municipal | 19 | $66,747 | −$2,142 | #1,143 |
| 13 | South Jordan Police Department | Municipal | 69 | $66,435 | −$2,454 | #1,164 |
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