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New Braunfels 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.
New Braunfels Police Department starts at $74,642 a year — about $35.89 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $7,957 above the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $6,502 above the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX run about 5% below the national average, so this goes about as far as $78,806 would somewhere at average prices — $4,164 more than the headline figure. Most of that is utilities, at 82 against a national average of 100, where goods are 94. Based on price levels for this metropolitan 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 isNew Braunfels Police Department reported 162 sworn officers and 35 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 1.3 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 123,668.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.
What New Braunfels says about itself
The New Braunfels Police Department is organized into several specialized divisions that work together to ensure the safety and well-being of our community. The New Braunfels Police Department is guided by four core pillars that shape our priorities, guide our strategies, and support our ongoing mission to serve with integrity and excellence.
What New Braunfels does
New Braunfels Police is the city's municipal police agency, with its own divisions, public-safety mission and civil-service route into sworn Police Officer service.
Shifts at New Braunfels
New Braunfels prints the schedule on its own hiring flyer: 10-hour patrol shifts with two weekends off per month.
The agency publishes the shift length but not a named cycle. These are the 10-hour rotations departments most often build on it: 4/10.
Two weekends off a month is a promise about the pattern, not a pattern the department has published in full, so there is nothing here to draw. What BlueShifts can do is take the roster you are actually given and keep it - including the shift differential days and the off-duty work that fills the other two weekends.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 13 August 2026. $74,642 annual first-year base pay for certified Police Officer. Current official NBPD compensation page publishes $74,642 as first-year starting annual base pay for certified police officers with less than three years of experience; lateral placement begins at three years. — open the source document
2025 Annual Report, published in 2026. $74,642 annual first-year base pay for certified Police Officer. Current official NBPD compensation page publishes $74,642 as first-year starting annual base pay for certified police officers with less than three years of experience; lateral placement begins at three years.
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 New Braunfels 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. New Braunfels starts at $74,642, so $6,502 above the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a New Braunfels Police Department officer make?
New Braunfels Police Department starts a new officer on $74,642 a year, about $35.89 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 $74,642 annual first-year base pay for certified Police Officer. Current official NBPD compensation page publishes $74,642 as first-year starting annual base pay for certified police officers with less than three years of experience; lateral placement begins at three years..
Is that good pay for a police officer in Texas?
It ranks #63 of 151 agencies we have verified in Texas — 88 pay less, 62 pay more in the state — and #691 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $7,957 above, and against other municipal agencies $6,502 above.
What shifts do New Braunfels Police Department officers work?
New Braunfels prints the schedule on its own hiring flyer: 10-hour patrol shifts with two weekends off per month. That is the agency's own published wording; the pattern is drawn on this page.
Compare with another department
Put New Braunfels 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 TX
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs New | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Allen Police Department | Municipal | 153 | $91,106 | +$16,464 | #241 |
| 2 | Frisco Police Department | Municipal | 270 | $90,750 | +$16,108 | #252 |
| 3 | Plano Police Department | Municipal | 400 | $90,729 | +$16,087 | #253 |
| 4 | Grand Prairie Police Department | Municipal | 287 | $90,000 | +$15,358 | #270 |
| 5 | Hurst Police Department | Municipal | 61 | $87,048 | +$12,406 | #322 |
| 6 | Lewisville Police Department | Municipal | 181 | $86,268 | +$11,626 | #335 |
| 7 | Coppell Police Department | Municipal | 60 | $84,968 | +$10,326 | #355 |
| 8 | Rockwall Police Department | Municipal | 95 | $84,448 | +$9,806 | #362 |
| 9 | Farmers Branch Police Department | Municipal | 83 | $84,440 | +$9,798 | #363 |
| 10 | The Colony Police Department | Municipal | 86 | $84,082 | +$9,440 | #371 |
| 11 | Baytown Police Department | Municipal | 172 | $84,049 | +$9,407 | #372 |
| 12 | McKinney Police Department | Municipal | 248 | $83,992 | +$9,350 | #374 |
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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