Pittsburg Police Department entry pay

What Pittsburg says about itself

The Patrol Division operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The City of Pittsburg is broken into beats for deployment purposes, and officers are assigned to a specific beat for a minimum of four months.

What Pittsburg does

The Pittsburg Police Department serves the city of Pittsburg, California, on the Sacramento river delta in Contra Costa County. Its officers are represented by the Pittsburg Police Officers' Association under an agreement running to June 2028, and the City divides the city into beats to which officers are assigned for a minimum of four months at a time. The Patrol Division operates twenty-four hours a day, and the City prices an unrepresented flat-rate Police Trainee class apart from the sworn range.

Where the figure comes from

Checked 21 September 2026. City of Pittsburg Monthly Salary Schedule, Council approved 20 July 2026 — "Police Officer 6000 7/5/2026 9,464 9,937 10,435 10,956 11,504 12,080 POA" (step 1 of a six-step monthly range). — open the source document
$9,464 a month is the City's own step 1 figure on the Council-approved schedule and $113,568.00 is that rate times twelve, which is exact rather than an estimate. THE TRAINEE CLASS IS ON THE SAME SCHEDULE AND IS NOT THE FIGURE: "Police Trainee 6009 8/18/2025 38.00 38.00 38.00 Unrepresented", a single flat hourly rate in the seasonal and extra-help block, unrepresented rather than in the police association. Note the class is titled Police TRAINEE, not Police Officer Trainee, which is why a search for the usual wording finds nothing. A DELIBERATE EXCLUSION, because the City publishes it in the same row family: the previous schedule carries a "Top Step w/Incentives 14,925" column, which is a ceiling AND a bundle and is not base. THE APPENDIX AND THE ADOPTED SCHEDULE DIFFER BY ONE DOLLAR AND BOTH ARE SHOWN RATHER THAN ONE BEING PICKED SILENTLY: the association agreement's Appendix A prints 9,465 for the July 2026 step A while the adopted schedule prints 9,464. This row publishes the ADOPTED SCHEDULE'S figure, because that is the operative document; the chart is built from the agreement's appendix, which is the only place all three dated tables sit together. THE FIGURE IS DATED BY THE SCHEDULE ITSELF, 5 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.

Entry pay through 2027

Every point is the entry-class annual base printed in the agency’s own pay document. Base pay only — no shift differential, incentives or allowances.

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How this level compares

Where Pittsburg sits is partly about the agency and partly about which level of policing it belongs to. The three levels do not pay the same.

How it ranks

Common questions

How much does a Pittsburg Police Department officer make?

Pittsburg Police Department starts a new officer on $113,568 a year, about $54.60 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 Pittsburg Monthly Salary Schedule, Council approved 20 July 2026 — "Police Officer 6000 7/5/2026 9,464 9,937 10,435 10,956 11,504 12,080 POA" (step 1 of a six-step monthly range)..

Is that good pay for a police officer in California?

It ranks #45 of 278 agencies we have verified in California — 233 pay less, 44 pay more in the state — and #46 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $46,883 above, and against other municipal agencies $45,428 above.

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