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Oklahoma City 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.
Oklahoma City Police Department starts at $67,735 a year — about $32.56 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $1,050 above the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $405 below the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Oklahoma City, OK run about 10% below the national average, so this goes about as far as $74,921 would somewhere at average prices — $7,186 more than the headline figure. Most of that is rent, at 74 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 isOklahoma City Police Department reported 1,108 sworn officers and 347 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 1.5 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 720,580.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 Oklahoma City says about itself
The mission of the Oklahoma City Police Department is to deliver exceptional police services to our community with integrity, compassion, accountability, respect, and equity.
What Oklahoma City does
Oklahoma City Police Officers perform sworn law-enforcement work enforcing federal and state laws and city ordinances. After academy completion, probationary officers enter field duty involving routine and complex law-enforcement responsibilities, public interaction, patrol, investigations, and specialized assignments.
Oklahoma City’s rotation, in BlueShifts
OKCPD publishes the patrol roster on its own recruiting site: patrol officers work eight days on with six days off, and the department's vacancy notice puts that as eight 10-hour shifts with every other week and weekend off. Officers on the schedule also receive nine special days off a year on top of vacation.
The rotation template screen — enter the cycle and the start date, and you are done.
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Every month, already filled in — no typing, however far ahead you look.
September 2026
An 8-on, 6-off fortnight never lines up with a calendar week, so the days off walk through the week and every other weekend is yours. BlueShifts builds the cycle once and fills every month ahead, and the nine special days off sit alongside vacation rather than inside it.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 6 September 2026. Join OKCPD — Pay Scale and Benefits (Oklahoma City Police Department recruiting site) — open the source document
Their source is effective 8 April 2019.
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 Oklahoma City 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. Oklahoma City starts at $67,735, so $405 below the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Oklahoma City Police Department officer make?
Oklahoma City Police Department starts a new officer on $67,735 a year, about $32.56 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 Join OKCPD — Pay Scale and Benefits (Oklahoma City Police Department recruiting site).
Is that good pay for a police officer in Oklahoma?
It ranks #5 of 22 agencies we have verified in Oklahoma — 17 pay less, 4 pay more in the state — and #1,072 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $1,050 above, and against other municipal agencies $405 below.
What shifts do Oklahoma City Police Department officers work?
OKCPD publishes the patrol roster on its own recruiting site: patrol officers work eight days on with six days off, and the department's vacancy notice puts that as eight 10-hour shifts with every other week and weekend off. Officers on the schedule also receive nine special days off a year on top of vacation. That is the agency's own published wording; the pattern is drawn on this page.
Compare with another department
Put Oklahoma City 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 OK
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Oklahoma | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broken Arrow Police Department | Municipal | 168 | $72,004 | +$4,270 | #812 |
| 2 | Moore Police Department | Municipal | 107 | $70,796 | +$3,061 | #896 |
| 3 | Edmond Police Department | Municipal | 126 | $68,481 | +$746 | #1,020 |
| 4 | Oklahoma Highway Patrol | State | 789 | $67,900 | +$165 | #1,064 |
| 6 | Yukon Police Department | Municipal | 53 | $63,058 | −$4,677 | #1,380 |
| 7 | Norman Police Department | Municipal | 177 | $61,000 | −$6,735 | #1,503 |
| 8 | Tulsa Police Department | Municipal | 836 | $60,611 | −$7,124 | #1,527 |
| 9 | Tulsa County Sheriff's Office | County | 223 | $60,000 | −$7,735 | #1,573 |
| 10 | Stillwater Police Department | Municipal | 84 | $59,446 | −$8,288 | #1,608 |
| 11 | Owasso Police Department | Municipal | 66 | $59,398 | −$8,337 | #1,609 |
| 12 | Bartlesville Police Department | Municipal | 76 | $57,450 | −$10,285 | #1,733 |
| 13 | Enid Police Department | Municipal | 96 | $56,243 | −$11,492 | #1,787 |
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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