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Perry 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.
Perry Police Department starts at $51,418 a year — about $24.72 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $15,267 below the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $16,722 below the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Georgia run about 4% below the national average, so this goes about as far as $53,397 would somewhere at average prices — $1,979 more than the headline figure. Most of that is rent, at 89 against a national average of 100, where goods are 99. 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 isPerry Police Department reported 49 sworn officers and 6 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 1.9 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 25,866.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 Perry says about itself
The Perry Police Department's mission is to provide quality service in partnership with our community which promotes safe and secure neighborhoods.
What Perry does
The Perry Police Department is the municipal force for the City of Perry in Houston County, Georgia, working from 1207 Washington Street. It has three divisions - Patrol, Criminal Investigations and Support Services - and the patrol division responds to every 911 call from citizens. The City says all Perry officers are POST certified, having completed twenty weeks of basic mandate training.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 23 September 2026. City of Perry, Police Department page: "Mandated (certified) | $51,417.60". The City's Police Officer announcement 25-14 (open 7/2/2025 until filled) gives the same rate by the hour: "Police Officer Trainee: $21.63", "Police Officer I: $24.72", Police Officer I requiring "POST basic mandate certification". — open the source document
$51,417.60 is printed by the City itself as the annual for a certified (mandated) officer, and it is $24.72 an hour - the Police Officer I rate in announcement 25-14 - times 2,080 hours, so the City has done the conversion and none is needed here. THE TRAINEE RATE IS NOT THE ENTRY RATE: $21.63 an hour is paid while a trainee completes the 20-week POST academy, and certification alone is what makes a Police Officer I, the post-academy class taken here. The announcement asks for no prior service; compensation above the base for certified candidates depends on experience and education. Excluded: experience and education pay, overtime and benefits.
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 Perry 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. Perry starts at $51,418, so $16,722 below the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Perry Police Department officer make?
Perry Police Department starts a new officer on $51,418 a year, about $24.72 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 Perry, Police Department page: "Mandated (certified) | $51,417.60". The City's Police Officer announcement 25-14 (open 7/2/2025 until filled) gives the same rate by the hour: "Police Officer Trainee: $21.63", "Police Officer I: $24.72", Police Officer I requiring "POST basic mandate certification"..
Is that good pay for a police officer in Georgia?
It ranks #62 of 80 agencies we have verified in Georgia — 18 pay less, 61 pay more in the state — and #2,017 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $15,267 below, and against other municipal agencies $16,722 below.
Compare with another department
Put Perry 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 GA
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Perry | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chamblee Police Department | Municipal | 68 | $73,733 | +$22,315 | #729 |
| 2 | Sandy Springs Police Department | Municipal | 149 | $71,686 | +$20,269 | #836 |
| 3 | Georgia Bureau of Investigation | State | 338 | $64,977 | +$13,559 | #1,265 |
| 4 | Duluth Police Department | Municipal | 57 | $64,755 | +$13,337 | #1,279 |
| 5 | Garden City Police Department | Municipal | 35 | $64,072 | +$12,654 | #1,314 |
| 6 | Georgia State Patrol | State | — | $63,684 | +$12,266 | #1,336 |
| 7 | South Fulton Police Department | Municipal | 213 | $63,440 | +$12,022 | #1,354 |
| 8 | Hall County Sheriff's Office | County | 283 | $63,365 | +$11,947 | #1,359 |
| 9 | Roswell Police Department | Municipal | 154 | $62,462 | +$11,045 | #1,413 |
| 10 | Dunwoody Police Department | Municipal | 66 | $62,301 | +$10,883 | #1,428 |
| 11 | Savannah Police Department | Municipal | 425 | $61,989 | +$10,571 | #1,450 |
| 12 | Alpharetta Police Department | Municipal | 105 | $61,100 | +$9,682 | #1,495 |
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