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Queen Creek 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.
Queen Creek Police Department starts at $74,693 a year — about $35.91 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $6,303 above the median of the 1,681 agencies on this list, and $3,429 above the median for municipal agencies.
How big the department isQueen Creek Police Department reported 132 sworn officers and 34 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 1.4 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 90,750.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 Queen Creek says about itself
QCPD uses mission-focused technology and investigative tools to enhance public safety, improve situational awareness, support informed decision making, and assist officers in resolving incidents safely and effectively.
What Queen Creek does
Queen Creek Police Department is a new municipal agency serving one of Arizona's fastest-growing towns, on the south-eastern edge of the Phoenix metropolitan area across the Maricopa and Pinal county line. It describes itself as still shaping its culture and direction, with officers' skills, training and input expected to inform how the department develops. It does not recruit directly into specialist posts: officers join patrol and specialised duties follow, with assignments including traffic and motors, school resource, investigations, community engagement, training, canine and a special assignment unit, alongside collateral roles such as SWAT, negotiations, drone piloting, bicycle and UTV patrol and instructor postings.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 8 August 2026. Town of Queen Creek official P — open the source document
Opened 23 April 2026; official entry-level recruit range begins $35.91/hour = $74,692.80; recruits continue into department post-academy training after academy completion and no separate immediate graduation rat
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 Queen Creek 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. Queen Creek starts at $74,693, so $3,406 above the municipal middle.
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How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Queen Creek Police Department officer make?
Queen Creek Police Department starts a new officer on $74,693 a year, about $35.91 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 Queen Creek official P.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Arizona?
It ranks #3 of 26 agencies we have verified in Arizona — 23 pay less, 2 pay more in the state — and #569 of 1,681 nationally. Against the national median it is $6,303 above, and against other municipal agencies $3,429 above.
Compare with another department
Put Queen Creek 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 AZ
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Queen | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Goodyear Police Department | Municipal | 174 | $77,147 | +$2,454 | #475 |
| 2 | Phoenix Police Department | Municipal | 2,490 | $75,847 | +$1,154 | #526 |
| 4 | Chandler Police Department | Municipal | 348 | $74,610 | −$83 | #573 |
| 5 | Mesa Police Department | Municipal | 885 | $73,972 | −$721 | #596 |
| 6 | Casa Grande Police Department | Municipal | 82 | $72,860 | −$1,833 | #632 |
| 7 | El Mirage Police Department | Municipal | 53 | $71,573 | −$3,120 | #693 |
| 8 | Maricopa Police Department | Municipal | 89 | $71,074 | −$3,619 | #719 |
| 9 | Flagstaff Police Department | Municipal | 107 | $68,203 | −$6,490 | #850 |
| 10 | Navajo County Sheriff's Office | County | 59 | $67,496 | −$7,197 | #892 |
| 11 | Bullhead City Police Department | Municipal | 66 | $67,038 | −$7,654 | #914 |
| 12 | Show Low Police Department | Municipal | 34 | $66,581 | −$8,112 | #943 |
| 13 | Apache Junction Police Department | Municipal | 88 | $65,874 | −$8,819 | #974 |
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