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Orem 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.
Orem Police Department starts at $66,768 a year — about $32.10 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $1,622 below the median of the 1,681 agencies on this list, and $4,496 below the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT run about 2% below the national average, so this goes about as far as $67,970 would somewhere at average prices — $1,202 more than the headline figure. That average hides a wide spread: utilities at 79, where goods are 96. 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 isOrem Police Department reported 94 sworn officers and 19 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 1.0 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 96,209.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 Orem says about itself
Proactively serve and protect our community with honor, respect, and accountability, to make Orem the safest place to live, work, and play. DESCRIPTION: The Orem Police Department proactively serves and protects the community with honor, respect and accountability. Community-oriented policing is its foundation, with Patrol, Investigations and Support Services providing police and public-safety services.
What Orem does
Orem Police states its purpose as proactively serving and protecting the community with honour, respect and accountability, to make Orem the safest place it can be.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 10 August 2026. Orem Police Department current recruitment pay-scale flyer — open the source document
Their source is effective 1 December 2025.
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 Orem 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. Orem starts at $66,768, so $4,519 below the municipal middle.
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How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Orem Police Department officer make?
Orem Police Department starts a new officer on $66,768 a year, about $32.10 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 Orem Police Department current recruitment pay-scale flyer.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Utah?
It ranks #11 of 31 agencies we have verified in Utah — 20 pay less, 10 pay more in the state — and #931 of 1,681 nationally. Against the national median it is $1,622 below, and against other municipal agencies $4,496 below.
Compare with another department
Put Orem 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 UT
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Orem | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Salt Lake City Police Department | Municipal | 589 | $76,315 | +$9,547 | #503 |
| 2 | Santa Clara Police Department | Municipal | — | $75,982 | +$9,214 | #518 |
| 3 | Taylorsville Police Department | Municipal | — | $75,941 | +$9,173 | #523 |
| 4 | Utah Highway Patrol | State | 536 | $75,878 | +$9,110 | #525 |
| 5 | Sandy Police Department | Municipal | — | $73,112 | +$6,344 | #621 |
| 6 | West Valley City Police Department | Municipal | — | $73,045 | +$6,277 | #625 |
| 7 | Cottonwood Heights Police Department | Municipal | — | $69,763 | +$2,995 | #785 |
| 8 | Murray City Police Department | Municipal | 82 | $68,890 | +$2,122 | #821 |
| 9 | Unified Police Department of Greater Salt Lake | Municipal | — | $68,099 | +$1,331 | #858 |
| 10 | South Salt Lake Police Department | Municipal | — | $66,997 | +$229 | #916 |
| 12 | Moab Police Department | Municipal | — | $66,747 | −$21 | #936 |
| 13 | South Jordan Police Department | Municipal | — | $66,435 | −$333 | #952 |
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