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Peoria 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.
Peoria Police Department starts at $74,194 a year — about $35.67 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $7,509 above the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $6,054 above the median for municipal agencies.
How big the department isPeoria Police Department reported 234 sworn officers and 120 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 1.2 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 201,962.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 Peoria says about itself
The Peoria Police Department has a strong Community Oriented Policing philosophy, which shapes the way the Department conducts its daily business.
What Peoria does
The Peoria Police Department serves the city of Peoria, Arizona, in Maricopa County north-west of Phoenix, with about 300 employees and an operating budget of approximately $48 million. Its officers are represented by the Peoria Police Officers' Association under a 2026-2028 agreement that prices a separate Police Recruit job code beneath an eight-step Police Officer ladder rising five per cent a step, and permits eight, ten or twelve hour shifts in a fourteen-day work period with shift preference bid on a calendar-year basis.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 21 September 2026. City of Peoria / Peoria Police Officers' Association Memorandum of Understanding 2026-2028, Article 3 Wages — "Wage Table as of July 1, 2026: Rank Step Hourly Rate Annual Rate Step Increase — Police Officer 1 $35.67 $74,193.60". — open the source document
$74,193.60 is the agreement's own annual rate for Police Officer Step 1 and no arithmetic has been applied to it - the table prints $35.67 hourly beside it. THE RECRUIT CLASS IS A SEPARATE JOB CODE AND IS NOT THE FIGURE: the City's own job-code table carries "P00000 Police Recruit Hourly Non Manager PPOA Police Recruit Step 01 - Police Recruit - 33.97 USD" at a single flat rate, minimum equal to maximum, beneath "P00001 Police Officer ... Step 01 - Police Officer (0-12 Months) - 35.67 USD". AND IT CORRECTS A READING THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN WRONG BOTH WAYS: the $35.67 to $50.19 band on the Department's recruiting site was taken by an earlier pass for a LATERAL range. It is not - it is the full Police Officer classification range, so $35.67 is the officer minimum, and treating it as lateral-only would have left this agency unwritten for no reason. Excluded from the figure: every step above Step 1, which are time steps at 5 per cent each from 12 to 96 months. THE FIGURE IS DATED BY THE AGREEMENT ITSELF, the first pay period to include 1 July 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.
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How this level compares
Where Peoria 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. Peoria starts at $74,194, so $6,054 above the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Peoria Police Department officer make?
Peoria Police Department starts a new officer on $74,194 a year, about $35.67 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 City of Peoria / Peoria Police Officers' Association Memorandum of Understanding 2026-2028, Article 3 Wages — "Wage Table as of July 1, 2026: Rank Step Hourly Rate Annual Rate Step Increase — Police Officer 1 $35.67 $74,193.60"..
Is that good pay for a police officer in Arizona?
It ranks #9 of 36 agencies we have verified in Arizona — 27 pay less, 8 pay more in the state — and #708 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $7,509 above, and against other municipal agencies $6,054 above.
Compare with another department
Put Peoria 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 AZ
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Peoria | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scottsdale Police Department | Municipal | 391 | $81,474 | +$7,280 | #440 |
| 2 | Tempe Police Department | Municipal | 353 | $79,977 | +$5,783 | #497 |
| 3 | Goodyear Police Department | Municipal | 174 | $77,147 | +$2,953 | #580 |
| 4 | Buckeye Police Department | Municipal | 133 | $76,003 | +$1,809 | #626 |
| 5 | Phoenix Police Department | Municipal | 2,490 | $75,847 | +$1,653 | #637 |
| 6 | Queen Creek Police Department | Municipal | 132 | $74,693 | +$499 | #689 |
| 7 | Chandler Police Department | Municipal | 348 | $74,610 | +$416 | #693 |
| 8 | Surprise Police Department | Municipal | 179 | $74,214 | +$21 | #707 |
| 10 | Mesa Police Department | Municipal | 885 | $73,972 | −$222 | #720 |
| 11 | Glendale Police Department | Municipal | 406 | $73,389 | −$804 | #742 |
| 12 | Casa Grande Police Department | Municipal | 82 | $72,860 | −$1,334 | #768 |
| 13 | Gilbert Police Department | Municipal | 310 | $71,906 | −$2,288 | #818 |
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