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Northern Mariana Islands Department of Public Safety 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.
Northern Mariana Islands Department of Public Safety starts at $21,219 a year — about $10.20 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $45,466 below the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $7,017 below the median for territory agencies.
What Northern Mariana Islands Department of Public Safety says about itself
The members of the CNMI Department of Public Safety are dedicated to providing the highest quality public safety service in order to enhance community safety, protect life and property, and reduce crime and the fear of crime. To do this, we pledge to develop a partnership with the community, lead a community commitment to resolve problems, and improve the safety and quality of life in the Commonwealth. Our mission is to join with our community in bringing high quality of living and safety into the CNMI, and we do this by providing responsive, cost effective and innovative public services. Among the departmental goals: ensure our residents and visitors that they are at the heart of everything we do; be visible and accessible to the people and villages we serve; ensure that community contact and feedback helps to shape what we do and how we do it; and develop a modern, flexible work force that places as many officers and firefighters as possible for policing and public safety.
What Northern Mariana Islands Department of Public Safety does
The Northern Mariana Islands Department of Public Safety polices Saipan, Tinian and Rota from the Jose M. Sablan Building in Susupe, with resident offices on the two outer islands. Its police division runs patrol, a criminal investigation bureau, highway patrol and a boating safety section, and the department also holds the Bureau of Motor Vehicles and the territory's Highway Safety Office. Fire and emergency medical services were separated into their own department in 2015.
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Where the figure comes from
Checked 19 August 2026. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands — Governor's FY2026 Budget Proposal, Volume II Federal Fund, Department of Public Safety, submitted 1 April 2025 — open the source document
$21,219. The Commonwealth's own FY2026 budget proposal, published by the Northern Marianas Commonwealth Legislature; checked 19 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 Northern Mariana Islands Department of Public Safety 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. Northern Mariana Islands Department of Public Safety starts at $21,219, so $7,017 below the territory middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Northern Mariana Islands Department of Public Safety officer make?
Northern Mariana Islands Department of Public Safety starts a new officer on $21,219 a year, about $10.20 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 Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands — Governor's FY2026 Budget Proposal, Volume II Federal Fund, Department of Public Safety, submitted 1 April 2025.
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