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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 $64,024 a year — about $30.78 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $2,661 below the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $4,116 below the median for municipal agencies.
How big the department isPeoria Police Department reported 225 sworn officers and 30 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 2.0 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 111,389.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.
About Peoria
The Peoria Police Department serves the city of Peoria, Illinois, on the Illinois River, policing forty-eight square miles from 600 SW Adams Street. Its Uniform Services bureau holds the Patrol Division with its K-9 unit and a Traffic Division, and the Department publishes one salary for a new hire after certified training rather than a step schedule. Its patrol union is the Policemen's Benevolent Labor Committee.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 21 September 2026. City of Peoria, Illinois — New Hire Recruit information: "2022 New Hire Recruit Information and Salary after Certified Training: $64,024.07". — open the source document
$64,024.07 is the City's own annual figure and no arithmetic has been applied to it. THE GATE IS CERTIFICATION AND THE CITY'S OWN WORDING SAYS SO: the figure is published as the salary AFTER CERTIFIED TRAINING, which is Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board certification, so it is the post-academy rate and not a recruit rate. The during-academy rate is NOT published anywhere on the page, so there is no lower figure to quote alongside it - that absence is recorded rather than filled in. NOT A LATERAL RATE, DESPITE WHERE IT SITS: the figure is printed under a NEW HIRE RECRUIT heading on a page titled Lateral Transfer, and it is the new-hire number. NAME TRAP, AND IT IS LIVE RATHER THAN THEORETICAL: a targeted search for this department's mission returned joinpeoriapoliceaz.com - the ARIZONA department's recruiting site, which is a separate agency already on this roster - as its top result. Every page used here was confirmed as Illinois by its own address, 600 SW Adams Street, Peoria, IL 61602. THE FIGURE CARRIES THE YEAR 2022 AND NOTHING NEWER IS PUBLISHED, which is named rather than hidden: it is four years old and the City's own labor-contracts index, which would carry the step schedule and dated wage columns, could not be opened. NEXT DOCUMENT: the Peoria PBPA patrol contract from peoriagov.org/667/Labor-Contracts.
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 $64,024, so $4,116 below 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 $64,024 a year, about $30.78 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, Illinois — New Hire Recruit information: "2022 New Hire Recruit Information and Salary after Certified Training: $64,024.07"..
Is that good pay for a police officer in Illinois?
It ranks #39 of 43 agencies we have verified in Illinois — 4 pay less, 38 pay more in the state — and #1,315 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $2,661 below, and against other municipal agencies $4,116 below.
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 IL
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Peoria | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vernon Hills Police Department | Municipal | 44 | $94,460 | +$30,436 | #192 |
| 2 | Wilmette Police Department | Municipal | 45 | $93,156 | +$29,132 | #207 |
| 3 | Oak Park Police Department | Municipal | 91 | $92,716 | +$28,692 | #214 |
| 4 | Skokie Police Department | Municipal | 102 | $92,405 | +$28,381 | #219 |
| 5 | Aurora Police Department | Municipal | 328 | $92,248 | +$28,224 | #223 |
| 6 | Des Plaines Police Department | Municipal | 97 | $91,440 | +$27,416 | #235 |
| 7 | Highland Park Police Department | Municipal | 60 | $91,158 | +$27,134 | #240 |
| 8 | Naperville Police Department | Municipal | 186 | $90,965 | +$26,941 | #246 |
| 9 | Illinois State Police | State | 1,821 | $90,828 | +$26,804 | #251 |
| 10 | River Forest Police Department | Municipal | 26 | $90,106 | +$26,082 | #267 |
| 11 | Evanston Police Department | Municipal | 140 | $88,656 | +$24,632 | #292 |
| 12 | Elgin Police Department | Municipal | 203 | $88,274 | +$24,250 | #301 |
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