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Nevada Division of State Parks — Commissioned Park Rangers 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.
Nevada Division of State Parks — Commissioned Park Rangers starts at $57,637 a year — about $27.71 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $9,047 below the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $7,529 below the median for state agencies.
What Nevada Division of State Parks — Commissioned Park Rangers says about itself
Park Rangers (Commissioned) participate in operations, law enforcement, resource management, interpretation, and maintenance activities at an assigned State park. They coordinate and participate in day-to-day park operation and maintenance projects; train, supervise and evaluate the performance of assigned seasonal personnel; clean and maintain park buildings, grounds, offices, restrooms, and vehicles; and schedule and assign personnel to collect fees, staff visitor centres, and conduct tours. Applicants must meet minimum standards for appointment as a peace officer as established in the Nevada Revised Statutes and Nevada Administrative Code, incumbents must complete a POST academy within 18 months of appointment, and positions are subject to call back and must work various hours and shifts, requiring statewide travel and work on evenings, weekends and holidays.
What Nevada Division of State Parks — Commissioned Park Rangers does
Commissioned Nevada State Park Rangers perform law-enforcement, resource-protection, visitor-safety and park-operation duties. The state class specification requires statewide travel and identifies the commissioned series as protective-service/law-enforcement positions.
Shifts at Nevada Division of State Parks — Commissioned Park Rangers
Positions are subject to call back and must work various hours and/or shifts. These positions require statewide travel and work on evenings, weekends, and/or holidays.
No fixed cycle at all - hours follow the park's season and the callback. When the roster is this open-ended, seeing the month laid out is the only way to know what you have actually got.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 8 August 2026. Nevada Department of Administration, Division of Human Resource Management — Sworn Law Enforcement classifications and 2026 compensation schedules — open the source document
Their source is effective 1 July 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.
How this level compares
Where Nevada Division of State Parks — Commissioned Park Rangers 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. Nevada Division of State Parks — Commissioned Park Rangers starts at $57,637, so $7,529 below the state middle.
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How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Nevada Division of State Parks — Commissioned Park Rangers officer make?
Nevada Division of State Parks — Commissioned Park Rangers starts a new officer on $57,637 a year, about $27.71 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 Nevada Department of Administration, Division of Human Resource Management — Sworn Law Enforcement classifications and 2026 compensation schedules.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Nevada?
It ranks #19 of 26 agencies we have verified in Nevada — 7 pay less, 18 pay more in the state — and #1,721 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $9,047 below, and against other state agencies $7,529 below.
What shifts do Nevada Division of State Parks — Commissioned Park Rangers officers work?
Positions are subject to call back and must work various hours and/or shifts. These positions require statewide travel and work on evenings, weekends, and/or holidays. That is the agency's own published wording; the pattern is drawn on this page.
Compare with another department
Put Nevada Division of State Parks — Commissioned Park Rangers 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 NV
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Nevada | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nevada Gaming Control Board — Enforcement Division | State | 63 | $102,692 | +$45,055 | #103 |
| 2 | Boulder City Police Department | Municipal | 35 | $75,941 | +$18,303 | #633 |
| 3 | Washoe County Sheriff's Office | County | 465 | $75,296 | +$17,659 | #661 |
| 4 | Sparks Police Department | Municipal | 122 | $74,360 | +$16,723 | #703 |
| 5 | Henderson Police Department | Municipal | 534 | $71,885 | +$14,247 | #820 |
| 6 | Reno Police Department | Municipal | 336 | $68,890 | +$11,252 | #999 |
| 7 | North Las Vegas Police Department | Municipal | 315 | $68,099 | +$10,462 | #1,048 |
| 8 | Nevada State Police — Highway Patrol | State | — | $67,939 | +$10,302 | #1,061 |
| 9 | Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department | Municipal | 3,226 | $67,662 | +$10,025 | #1,081 |
| 10 | Douglas County Sheriff's Office | County | 104 | $66,851 | +$9,214 | #1,131 |
| 11 | Churchill County Sheriff's Office | County | 40 | $65,312 | +$7,675 | #1,238 |
| 12 | Lyon County Sheriff's Office | County | 63 | $64,764 | +$7,127 | #1,278 |
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