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Palm Springs Police Department (FL) 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.
Palm Springs Police Department (FL) starts at $72,116 a year — about $34.67 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $5,431 above the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $3,976 above the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Florida run about 3% above the national average, so this is worth roughly $69,735 somewhere at average prices — $2,381 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 isPalm Springs Police Department (FL) reported 49 sworn officers and 19 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 1.7 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 28,984.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 Palm Springs says about itself
As a Village committed to Progress, Partnership and Public Safety, Palm Springs is committed to continually improving the services we provide to our residents, and our police department is no exception. We take pride in serving this community with dedication, humility, and a deep sense of gratitude, and we strive every day to protect and support our neighbors with professionalism and compassion.
What Palm Springs does
The Village describes the position as general-duty police work protecting life and property, with officers making arrests, preparing investigative reports, exercising law-enforcement judgment and operating police vehicles under emergency and non-emergency conditions.
Shifts at Palm Springs
The Patrol Division runs four patrol teams, each supervised by a sergeant and staffed by six patrol officers, working a 12-hour rotating schedule to give continuous day and night coverage.
The agency publishes the shift length but not a named cycle. These are the 12-hour rotations departments most often build on it: Pitman, 4 on, 4 off, DuPont, Panama, 3-4-4-3.
BlueShifts builds 12-hour rotations, marks each tour as a day or a night, and shows the whole month at a glance so a rotating team knows its weekends months ahead.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 10 August 2026. Village of Palm Springs official Police Officer posting — open the source document
Open posting dated 14 April 2026; annual salary $72,115.68 for full-time general-duty police work.
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 Palm Springs 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. Palm Springs starts at $72,116, so $3,976 above the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Palm Springs Police Department (FL) officer make?
Palm Springs Police Department (FL) starts a new officer on $72,116 a year, about $34.67 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 Village of Palm Springs official Police Officer posting.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Florida?
It ranks #43 of 303 agencies we have verified in Florida — 260 pay less, 42 pay more in the state — and #806 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $5,431 above, and against other municipal agencies $3,976 above.
What shifts do Palm Springs Police Department (FL) officers work?
The Patrol Division runs four patrol teams, each supervised by a sergeant and staffed by six patrol officers, working a 12-hour rotating schedule to give continuous day and night coverage. That is the agency's own published wording; the pattern is drawn on this page.
Compare with another department
Put Palm Springs Police Department (FL) 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 Palm | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boca Raton Police Services Department | Municipal | 195 | $91,007 | +$18,891 | #244 |
| 2 | Fort Lauderdale Police Department | Municipal | 565 | $81,723 | +$9,607 | #433 |
| 3 | Plantation Police Department | Municipal | 164 | $81,000 | +$8,884 | #459 |
| 4 | Hillsboro Beach Police Department | Municipal | 15 | $80,954 | +$8,838 | #461 |
| 5 | Pinecrest Police Department | Municipal | 47 | $80,912 | +$8,796 | #464 |
| 6 | Sunny Isles Beach Police Department | Municipal | 65 | $80,000 | +$7,884 | #496 |
| 7 | Indian Creek Village Public Safety Department | Municipal | 10 | $79,850 | +$7,734 | #500 |
| 8 | Sunrise Police Department | Municipal | 190 | $79,071 | +$6,955 | #520 |
| 9 | Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office | County | 1,720 | $78,828 | +$6,712 | #526 |
| 10 | Aventura Police Department | Municipal | 91 | $78,556 | +$6,440 | #536 |
| 11 | Longboat Key Police Department | Municipal | 19 | $78,430 | +$6,314 | #543 |
| 12 | Manalapan Police Department | Municipal | 13 | $78,280 | +$6,164 | #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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