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Nevada Gaming Control Board — Enforcement Division 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 Gaming Control Board — Enforcement Division starts at $102,692 a year — about $49.37 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $34,302 above the median of the 1,681 agencies on this list, and $37,694 above the median for state agencies.
How big the department isNevada Gaming Control Board — Enforcement Division reported 63 sworn officers and 22 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 Nevada Gaming Control Board — Enforcement Division says about itself
The Enforcement Division is the law enforcement arm of the Gaming Control Board. DESCRIPTION: The Nevada Gaming Control Board Enforcement Division is the Board's 24/7 statewide law-enforcement arm. It conducts criminal and regulatory investigations, resolves patron/licensee disputes, gathers gaming-crime intelligence, conducts background investigations and performs gaming regulatory enforcement.
What Nevada Gaming Control Board — Enforcement Division does
Nevada Gaming Control Board Enforcement Agents are sworn peace officers with statewide law-enforcement authority under NRS 289.360(2). They conduct criminal, regulatory and intelligence investigations, make arrests, serve search and arrest warrants, transport prisoners and enforce Nevada gaming laws.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 8 August 2026. Nevada Gaming Control Board — Enforcement Agent recruitment — open the source document
$102,692. Current official recruitment material verified 8 August 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 Gaming Control Board — Enforcement Division 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. Nevada Gaming Control Board — Enforcement Division starts at $102,692, so $37,694 above the state middle.
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How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Nevada Gaming Control Board — Enforcement Division officer make?
Nevada Gaming Control Board — Enforcement Division starts a new officer on $102,692 a year, about $49.37 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 Gaming Control Board — Enforcement Agent recruitment.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Nevada?
It ranks #1 of 19 agencies we have verified in Nevada — the highest in the state in the state — and #79 of 1,681 nationally. Against the national median it is $34,302 above, and against other state agencies $37,694 above.
Compare with another department
Put Nevada Gaming Control Board — Enforcement Division 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Boulder City Police Department | Municipal | 35 | $75,941 | −$26,751 | #522 |
| 3 | Washoe County Sheriff's Office | County | 465 | $75,296 | −$27,396 | #546 |
| 4 | Henderson Police Department | Municipal | 534 | $71,885 | −$30,807 | #672 |
| 5 | Reno Police Department | Municipal | 336 | $68,890 | −$33,802 | #820 |
| 6 | North Las Vegas Police Department | Municipal | 315 | $68,099 | −$34,593 | #856 |
| 7 | Nevada State Police — Highway Patrol | State | — | $67,939 | −$34,753 | #866 |
| 8 | Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department | Municipal | 3,226 | $67,662 | −$35,030 | #881 |
| 9 | Douglas County Sheriff's Office | County | 104 | $66,851 | −$35,841 | #926 |
| 10 | Clark County Office of Public Safety | Municipal | — | $64,022 | −$38,670 | #1,059 |
| 11 | Nevada Department of Agriculture — Agricultural Police | State | — | $60,636 | −$42,056 | #1,206 |
| 12 | City of Las Vegas Department of Public Safety | Municipal | 109 | $58,912 | −$43,780 | #1,291 |
| 13 | Nevada Department of Wildlife — Law Enforcement Division | State | — | $57,637 | −$45,055 | #1,353 |
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