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Orange 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.
Orange City Police Department starts at $53,664 a year — about $25.80 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $13,021 below the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $14,476 below the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Florida run about 3% above the national average, so this is worth roughly $51,892 somewhere at average prices — $1,772 less than the headline figure. Most of that is rent, at 122 against a national average of 100, where goods are 98. Based on state-wide price levels, because this agency is not tied to a single metro 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 isOrange City Police Department reported 23 sworn officers and 7 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 1.4 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 15,959.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 Orange City says about itself
Our mission is clear and unwavering: to reduce crime while protecting and serving all citizens with professionalism, honor, integrity, and respect.
What Orange City does
The Orange City Police Department is the municipal force for the City of Orange City in west Volusia County, covering 7.5 square miles and answering more than 33,000 calls for service a year. Its patrol division, the largest in the department, fields 16 full-time officers across four shifts, each led by a sergeant, and covers the city around the clock every day of the year alongside traffic enforcement and education work. It has been led since January 2026 by Chief Jerome Miller, previously Deputy Chief at Apopka.
Orange City’s rotation, in BlueShifts
Orange City's own recruiting flyer prints the fortnight as a grid - work Monday and Tuesday, off Wednesday and Thursday, work Friday, Saturday and Sunday, then off Monday and Tuesday, work Wednesday and Thursday, off Friday, Saturday and Sunday - on 12-hour shifts, fourteen shifts a month. The City's patrol division page adds the staffing behind it: sixteen full-time officers in four shifts, each a sergeant and three patrol officers, seven days worked in a two-week cycle.
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September 2026
This cycle has its own page: how it works, and how to build it.
Fourteen 12-hour shifts a month on a 2-2-3 means the days you are off move every week and never land on the same weekday twice running. BlueShifts builds the cycle once and fills in every month ahead, so the take-home car, the court date and the second job sit on the same calendar as the roster.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 1 September 2026. Orange City Police Department recruitment flyer, "NOW HIRING - Join our team", City of Orange City, Florida: "$24.00/Hour (10/1/24 - $53,664 starting salary, includes 104 hours of built in overtime)" — open the source document
Their source is effective 1 October 2024.
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 Orange 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. Orange City starts at $53,664, so $14,476 below the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Orange City Police Department officer make?
Orange City Police Department starts a new officer on $53,664 a year, about $25.80 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 Orange City Police Department recruitment flyer, "NOW HIRING - Join our team", City of Orange City, Florida: "$24.00/Hour (10/1/24 - $53,664 starting salary, includes 104 hours of built in overtime)".
Is that good pay for a police officer in Florida?
It ranks #214 of 303 agencies we have verified in Florida — 89 pay less, 213 pay more in the state — and #1,931 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $13,021 below, and against other municipal agencies $14,476 below.
What shifts do Orange City Police Department officers work?
Orange City's own recruiting flyer prints the fortnight as a grid - work Monday and Tuesday, off Wednesday and Thursday, work Friday, Saturday and Sunday, then off Monday and Tuesday, work Wednesday and Thursday, off Friday, Saturday and Sunday - on 12-hour shifts, fourteen shifts a month. The City's patrol division page adds the staffing behind it: sixteen full-time officers in four shifts, each a sergeant and three patrol officers, seven days worked in a two-week cycle. That is the agency's own published wording; the pattern is drawn on this page.
Compare with another department
Put Orange 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 FL
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Orange | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boca Raton Police Services Department | Municipal | 195 | $91,007 | +$37,343 | #244 |
| 2 | Fort Lauderdale Police Department | Municipal | 565 | $81,723 | +$28,059 | #433 |
| 3 | Plantation Police Department | Municipal | 164 | $81,000 | +$27,336 | #459 |
| 4 | Hillsboro Beach Police Department | Municipal | 15 | $80,954 | +$27,290 | #461 |
| 5 | Pinecrest Police Department | Municipal | 47 | $80,912 | +$27,248 | #464 |
| 6 | Sunny Isles Beach Police Department | Municipal | 65 | $80,000 | +$26,336 | #496 |
| 7 | Indian Creek Village Public Safety Department | Municipal | 10 | $79,850 | +$26,186 | #500 |
| 8 | Sunrise Police Department | Municipal | 190 | $79,071 | +$25,407 | #520 |
| 9 | Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office | County | 1,720 | $78,828 | +$25,164 | #526 |
| 10 | Aventura Police Department | Municipal | 91 | $78,556 | +$24,892 | #536 |
| 11 | Longboat Key Police Department | Municipal | 19 | $78,430 | +$24,766 | #543 |
| 12 | Manalapan Police Department | Municipal | 13 | $78,280 | +$24,616 | #549 |
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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