Prescott Valley Police Department entry pay

What Prescott Valley says about itself

Prescott Valley Police Department's vision is to serve as a leading law enforcement agency that is invested in the growth and safety of our community through innovation and a balanced approach to law enforcement.

What Prescott Valley does

The Prescott Valley Police Department is the municipal police agency for the Town of Prescott Valley, Arizona, in Yavapai County, roughly 90 miles north of Phoenix. It is organized into Criminal Investigations, Field Services and Support Services divisions and operates from 7601 E Skoog Blvd. Alongside patrol and investigations it runs specialized assignments including bike patrol, traffic enforcement, school resource officers, SWAT, K9 and a drug enforcement unit. The department is led by a Chief of Police supported by assistant chiefs, commanders and lieutenants.

Where the figure comes from

Checked 21 September 2026. Town of Prescott Valley Annual Budget FY26-27, "Step Plan" schedule at page 410, columns "Position / Step / Annual Pay / Hourly Pay / Step Variance, %", row "Police Officer PO1 $66,934.40 $32.18 8%". — open the source document
The figure is the Police Officer PO1 rate — the bottom sworn officer step — in the Town of Prescott Valley's adopted Annual Budget for fiscal year 2026-27. It sits in the budget book's Personnel section, on the page the table of contents lists as "Step Plan 410", printed at page 410 under the heading "STEP PLAN" with the column headings "Position", "Step", "Annual Pay", "Hourly Pay" and "Step Variance, %". The Police Officer block begins "Police Officer PO1 $66,934.40 $32.18 8%" and runs up through PO13 at $98,259.20, above which the Sergeant block starts at S1 $97,240.00. Because the table labels its own columns "Annual Pay" and "Hourly Pay", the pay basis is stated on the document; the two columns reconcile at a 2,080-hour year ($66,934.40 ÷ 2,080 = $32.18). The effective date is the start of the town's 2026-27 fiscal year, July 1, 2026: the document is the adopted FY26-27 budget, every page of the schedule carries the running footer "Annual Budget FY26-27 | Prescott Valley", and Arizona municipal fiscal years run July 1 through June 30. The budget book does not print a separate "effective" line on the step plan itself, so the date is taken from the fiscal year the whole document governs rather than from a dated stamp on the table. On the gate question, the row immediately above PO1 in the same table is "Police Recruit Recruit $61,859.20 $29.74", and the gate between the recruit rate and PO1 is completion of training, not prior sworn service. Prescott Valley's own earlier step plan states the gate in words: the FY 2024-25 budget book's step plan carried a "Minimum Years of Seniority" column and, instead of a seniority number, entered "Fully Deployed" against PO1 — the schedule read "Recruit 0 56,118.40 / PO1 Fully Deployed 60,736.00 / PO2 1 63,190.40". "Fully Deployed" means the officer has finished the academy and field training and is working a solo assignment; it is an academy and training gate, which never disqualifies a figure. PO1 is therefore the correct entry rate for an officer with no prior service, and the $61,859.20 recruit rate is correctly excluded as a trainee rate. The gate above PO1 is ordinary step progression, with an 8% jump built into PO1 and roughly 2-4% between the steps above it. Several things could mislead a reader here. The most serious is a name collision: joinpvpd.com belongs to the Paradise Valley Police Department, a different Arizona agency, and must not be used for Prescott Valley — Prescott Valley's own recruiting material lives at prescottvalley-az.gov. There is also a second, nearby agency, the City of Prescott Police Department, whose budget documents are published by the City of Prescott at prescott-az.gov; those are not this agency. Within Prescott Valley's own material, the police recruiting page at prescottvalley-az.gov/departments/police/about_us/jobs.php quotes only hourly figures and lags the budget: it advertises "Recruit officer $28.87 hourly" and "Lateral officer $31.24 - $45.86 hourly depending on years of service". The $31.24 lateral floor corresponds to $64,979.20 a year, which is the prior fiscal year's PO1 rate, not the current one, so a reader working from the recruiting page would understate current entry pay. Finally, the lateral range is an experience-based placement band and not an entry figure. Nothing in the step plan indicates that holiday pay, premium hours, deferred compensation or incentives are folded into the PO1 amount; it is presented as straight base pay for the step. The same file is served from the town's content host at https://cms1files.revize.com/prescottvalleyaz/Documents/Departments/Finance/Budget%20and%20Finance%20Report/Annual%20Budget%20Books/Annual%20Budget%20Book%20Fiscal%20Year%202026-2027.pdf, which is where the town-site link redirects.
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.

How this level compares

Where Prescott Valley 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 Prescott Valley Police Department officer make?

Prescott Valley Police Department starts a new officer on $66,934 a year, about $32.18 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 Town of Prescott Valley Annual Budget FY26-27, "Step Plan" schedule at page 410, columns "Position / Step / Annual Pay / Hourly Pay / Step Variance, %", row "Police Officer PO1 $66,934.40 $32.18 8%"..

Is that good pay for a police officer in Arizona?

It ranks #20 of 36 agencies we have verified in Arizona — 16 pay less, 19 pay more in the state — and #1,125 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $250 above, and against other municipal agencies $1,206 below.

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