Home › Police pay › Illinois › Normal Police Department
Normal 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.
Normal Police Department starts at $77,566 a year — about $37.29 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $9,176 above the median of the 1,681 agencies on this list, and $6,302 above the median for municipal agencies.
How big the department isNormal Police Department reported 89 sworn officers and 12 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 1.7 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 53,374.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 Normal says about itself
The mission of the Normal Police Department is to serve and protect all citizens who live, work and visit our community. Normal Police Officers and Staff adhere to the highest standards of Integrity and Professionalism, and prioritize personal and community Wellness.
What Normal does
Normal Police Department says its mission is to serve and protect everyone who lives, works and visits the community. The department emphasizes integrity, professionalism, wellness and ongoing engagement with the people it serves. It follows a community-policing philosophy, maintains national accreditation and provides patrol, criminal investigations, crime-scene work and other full-service municipal police functions
Shifts at Normal
The Patrol Division consists of seven shifts that provide 24-hour service to the citizens of Normal.
Seven shifts is an unusual split, and it means your days off follow the roster rather than the week. BlueShifts draws your own pattern out so you can see it months ahead.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 8 August 2026. Town of Normal official Po — open the source document
Salary information as of 1 April 2026; training wage $76,627 and Year 1 Police Officer salary $77,566
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 Normal 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. Normal starts at $77,566, so $6,279 above the municipal middle.
BlueShifts. Plan Your Year. Own Your Time.
The shift calendar built for your rotation, off-duty work, and life on and off the clock.
Save your shift schedule once and BlueShifts fills the rest of the year in.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Normal Police Department officer make?
Normal Police Department starts a new officer on $77,566 a year, about $37.29 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 Normal official Po.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Illinois?
It ranks #20 of 35 agencies we have verified in Illinois — 15 pay less, 19 pay more in the state — and #467 of 1,681 nationally. Against the national median it is $9,176 above, and against other municipal agencies $6,302 above.
What shifts do Normal Police Department officers work?
The Patrol Division consists of seven shifts that provide 24-hour service to the citizens of Normal. That is the agency's own published wording; the pattern is drawn on this page.
Compare with another department
Put Normal 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 IL
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Normal | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vernon Hills Police Department | Municipal | 44 | $94,460 | +$16,894 | #151 |
| 2 | Wilmette Police Department | Municipal | 45 | $93,156 | +$15,590 | #165 |
| 3 | Aurora Police Department | Municipal | 328 | $92,248 | +$14,682 | #176 |
| 4 | Des Plaines Police Department | Municipal | 97 | $91,440 | +$13,874 | #186 |
| 5 | Highland Park Police Department | Municipal | 60 | $91,158 | +$13,592 | #191 |
| 6 | Illinois State Police | State | 1,821 | $90,828 | +$13,262 | #199 |
| 7 | River Forest Police Department | Municipal | 26 | $90,106 | +$12,540 | #213 |
| 8 | Elgin Police Department | Municipal | 203 | $88,274 | +$10,708 | #245 |
| 9 | Lake County Sheriff's Office | County | 113 | $87,297 | +$9,731 | #259 |
| 10 | Woodridge Police Department | Municipal | 47 | $84,781 | +$7,215 | #294 |
| 11 | DeKalb Police Department | Municipal | 72 | $83,449 | +$5,883 | #326 |
| 12 | Rolling Meadows Police Department | Municipal | 49 | $81,439 | +$3,873 | #362 |
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.
Scan to install
