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Port St. Lucie 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.
Port St. Lucie Police Department starts at $69,078 a year — about $33.21 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $688 above the median of the 1,681 agencies on this list, and $2,186 below the median for municipal agencies.
How big the department isPort St. Lucie Police Department reported 336 sworn officers and 85 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 1.2 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 273,427.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 Port St. Lucie
Port St. Lucie Police Department was established in 1980 with nine officers serving 12,000 residents; today it employs 335 sworn officers and 84 civilians for a city of over 254,000 on Florida's Treasure Coast, halfway between Miami and Orlando. It is led by a chief over two bureaus and one section — Neighborhood Policing, Support Services and Internal Affairs — with the Neighborhood Policing Bureau holding the patrol and district support divisions. The department practises stratified policing, deploying officers where crime is actually occurring rather than patrolling at random, and has been expanding its district structure to keep pace with the city's growth. Special operations include SWAT, K-9, marine and bike units, a drone team, crisis negotiation and a mobile field force, and a volunteer Community Patrol works the districts alongside them.
Port St. Lucie’s rotation, in BlueShifts
Officers pick a set schedule twice a year and work a four-day week, either Sunday to Wednesday or Wednesday to Saturday.
The rotation template screen — enter the cycle and the start date, and you are done.
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Every month, already filled in — no typing, however far ahead you look.
September 2026
This cycle has its own page: how it works, and how to build it.
Port St. Lucie publishes the days on and off but not which are days and which are nights. In BlueShifts you choose that yourself — every shift can be a day, a night or a 24-hour tour, and the calendar marks it with a sun, a moon or a clock.
Four tens on a fixed set that you pick twice a year - the same days off every week, chosen rather than rotated. BlueShifts draws the set and keeps court dates and off-duty work on the same calendar.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 15 August 2026. Port St. Lucie Police Department — Careers, competitive starting salary — open the source document
The Port St. Lucie Police Department publishes a starting salary of $69,078 for police officers on the Treasure Coast, with officers bringing prior experience earning up to $82,622 under the current three-year contract. Officers pick a set schedule twice a year, working either Sunday to Wednesday or Wednesday to Saturday. The City offers $2,500 a year in tuition assistance to full-time non-probationary employees.
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 Port St. Lucie 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 | $35,006 | $71,287 | $163,619 | 1046 |
| County | $36,492 | $65,374 | $132,263 | 416 |
| Special jurisdiction | $31,200 | $60,195 | $107,954 | 69 |
| State | $33,994 | $64,998 | $102,692 | 143 |
| 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 $2,200 more than the middle municipal agency and about $8,100 more than the middle county agency and about $13,300 more than the middle special jurisdiction agency and about $8,500 more than the middle state agency and about $45,300 more than the middle territory agency. Port St. Lucie starts at $69,078, so $2,209 below the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Port St. Lucie Police Department officer make?
Port St. Lucie Police Department starts a new officer on $69,078 a year, about $33.21 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 Port St. Lucie Police Department — Careers, competitive starting salary.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Florida?
It ranks #44 of 141 agencies we have verified in Florida — 97 pay less, 43 pay more in the state — and #811 of 1,681 nationally. Against the national median it is $688 above, and against other municipal agencies $2,186 below.
What shifts do Port St. Lucie Police Department officers work?
Officers pick a set schedule twice a year and work a four-day week, either Sunday to Wednesday or Wednesday to Saturday. That is the agency's own published wording; the pattern is drawn on this page.
Compare with another department
Put Port St. Lucie 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 FL
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Port | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boca Raton Police Services Department | Municipal | 195 | $86,674 | +$17,596 | #270 |
| 2 | Fort Lauderdale Police Department | Municipal | 565 | $81,723 | +$12,645 | #354 |
| 3 | Plantation Police Department | Municipal | 164 | $81,000 | +$11,922 | #379 |
| 4 | Pinecrest Police Department | Municipal | 47 | $80,912 | +$11,834 | #383 |
| 5 | Sunny Isles Beach Police Department | Municipal | 65 | $80,000 | +$10,922 | #411 |
| 6 | Aventura Police Department | Municipal | 91 | $78,556 | +$9,478 | #441 |
| 7 | Coral Springs Police Department | Municipal | 222 | $77,516 | +$8,438 | #470 |
| 8 | Boynton Beach Police Department | Municipal | 173 | $76,650 | +$7,572 | #490 |
| 9 | North Palm Beach Police Department | Municipal | 37 | $76,378 | +$7,300 | #497 |
| 10 | Naples Police Department | Municipal | 74 | $76,320 | +$7,242 | #501 |
| 11 | West Palm Beach Police Department | Municipal | 295 | $75,921 | +$6,843 | #524 |
| 12 | Bay Harbor Islands Police Department | Municipal | 24 | $75,836 | +$6,758 | #528 |
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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