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Nantucket 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.
Nantucket Police Department starts at $92,144 a year — about $44.30 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $23,754 above the median of the 1,681 agencies on this list, and $20,880 above the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Massachusetts run about 6% above the national average, so this is worth roughly $87,128 somewhere at average prices — $5,016 less than the headline figure. Most of that is utilities, at 152 against a national average of 100, where goods are 99. 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 isNantucket Police Department reported 40 sworn officers and 14 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 2.7 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 14,742.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 Nantucket
Nantucket Patrol Officers identify criminal offenders and activity, apprehend offenders, conduct preventive patrol, aid people in danger, facilitate movement of traffic and people, resolve conflicts, provide emergency services and enforce criminal laws while protecting the stability and safety of the community
Nantucket’s rotation, in BlueShifts
Officers work on the Pitman schedule to offer community support and protection 24/7. The department has 43 full-time sworn officers, and in the busy summer months adds 40 non-sworn Community Service Officers and 60 lifeguards.
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.
Nantucket 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.
The Pitman is a fortnightly 2-2-3 cycle, so it never repeats weekly and every other weekend is a three-day break — which is the whole appeal and the whole difficulty of planning around it. BlueShifts builds the cycle once and fills every month ahead, so you can see which weekends are yours before you are asked to commit to them.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 8 August 2026. Town of Nantucket official 2026 — open the source document
Opened 16 February 2026 and closes 15 January 2027; current official minimum $44.30/hour = $92,144 annually at 2,080 hours. Applicants need two of the Town's listed qualifying criteria; prior police employment or academy certification is not mandatory because a baccalaureate degree and Nantucket residency can satisfy two criteria. Experience-based 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 Nantucket 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. Nantucket starts at $92,144, so $20,857 above the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Nantucket Police Department officer make?
Nantucket Police Department starts a new officer on $92,144 a year, about $44.30 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 Nantucket official 2026.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Massachusetts?
It ranks #2 of 9 agencies we have verified in Massachusetts — 7 pay less, 1 pay more in the state — and #178 of 1,681 nationally. Against the national median it is $23,754 above, and against other municipal agencies $20,880 above.
What shifts do Nantucket Police Department officers work?
Officers work on the Pitman schedule to offer community support and protection 24/7. The department has 43 full-time sworn officers, and in the busy summer months adds 40 non-sworn Community Service Officers and 60 lifeguards. That is the agency's own published wording; the pattern is drawn on this page.
Compare with another department
Put Nantucket 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 MA
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Nantucket | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Everett Police Department | Municipal | 120 | $95,568 | +$3,424 | #140 |
| 3 | Massachusetts State Police | State | 2,565 | $80,213 | −$11,931 | #407 |
| 4 | Tufts University Police Department | Special jurisdiction | 52 | $75,962 | −$16,182 | #521 |
| 5 | Boston Police Department | Municipal | 2,172 | $71,861 | −$20,283 | #673 |
| 6 | West Stockbridge Police Department | Municipal | — | $66,797 | −$25,347 | #928 |
| 7 | Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs — Environmental Police | State | — | $65,447 | −$26,697 | #992 |
| 8 | Brockton Police Department | Municipal | 179 | $63,971 | −$28,173 | #1,060 |
| 9 | Melrose Police Department | Municipal | 47 | $61,511 | −$30,633 | #1,172 |
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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