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Redlands 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.
Redlands Police Department starts at $81,428 a year — about $39.15 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $14,743 above the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $13,288 above the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA run about 6% above the national average, so this is worth roughly $76,500 somewhere at average prices — $4,928 less than the headline figure. Most of that is utilities, at 149 against a national average of 100, where goods are 101. Based on price levels for this metropolitan 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 isRedlands Police Department reported 79 sworn officers and 40 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 1.1 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 74,542.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 Redlands says about itself
The Redlands Police Department is dedicated to enhancing public safety through trust, innovation, community partnerships and excellence in service. Its strategic purpose is controlling crime before it occurs by supporting strong families, resilient youth, and safe and sustainable neighbourhoods, through risk-focused policing alongside traditional crime suppression and enforcement.
What Redlands does
Redlands Police Department serves a San Bernardino County city of some 73,000 in the Inland Empire, authorized for 98 sworn officers and 49 full-time professional staff. It practises what it calls risk-focused policing — identifying the risk factors that lead to crime and acting on them before offences occur — alongside conventional street crime and gang suppression, narcotics and traffic work. Its patrol services bureau provides 24-hour cover, and the department is heavily augmented by volunteers: a citizen volunteer unit of around 25 members carries out vacation house checks, after-hours commercial patrols and near-constant random patrol in marked cars, supported by active police reserve, chaplain and explorer units.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 8 August 2026. City of Redlands official Police Officer - Lateral or — open the source document
Opening 1 May 2026; continuous. The official City posting lists $81,428-$98,976 annually for Academy Graduate/Lateral Police Officer. The minimum $81,428 is used; the $12,500 hiring incentive and POST certification premiums are separately identified and excluded
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 Redlands 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. Redlands starts at $81,428, so $13,288 above the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Redlands Police Department officer make?
Redlands Police Department starts a new officer on $81,428 a year, about $39.15 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 Redlands official Police Officer - Lateral or.
Is that good pay for a police officer in California?
It ranks #223 of 278 agencies we have verified in California — 55 pay less, 222 pay more in the state — and #443 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $14,743 above, and against other municipal agencies $13,288 above.
Compare with another department
Put Redlands 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 CA
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Redlands | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Santa Clara Police Department | Municipal | 141 | $163,619 | +$82,191 | #1 |
| 2 | Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety | Municipal | 227 | $149,443 | +$68,015 | #2 |
| 3 | Redwood City Police Department | Municipal | 83 | $147,942 | +$66,514 | #3 |
| 4 | San Jose Police Department | Municipal | 1,065 | $144,003 | +$62,575 | #4 |
| 5 | Mountain View Police Department | Municipal | 90 | $143,096 | +$61,668 | #5 |
| 6 | San Mateo Police Department | Municipal | 111 | $141,024 | +$59,596 | #6 |
| 7 | Los Altos Police Department | Municipal | 31 | $139,740 | +$58,312 | #7 |
| 8 | Hayward Police Department | Municipal | 171 | $138,965 | +$57,537 | #8 |
| 9 | Milpitas Police Department | Municipal | 84 | $138,261 | +$56,833 | #9 |
| 10 | Los Gatos Police Department | Municipal | 34 | $132,394 | +$50,966 | #10 |
| 11 | Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office | County | 1,071 | $132,263 | +$50,835 | #11 |
| 12 | Menlo Park Police Department | Municipal | 43 | $132,036 | +$50,608 | #12 |
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