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Rome 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.
Rome Police Department starts at $53,040 a year — about $25.50 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $13,645 below the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $15,100 below the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Georgia run about 4% below the national average, so this goes about as far as $55,082 would somewhere at average prices — $2,042 more than the headline figure. Most of that is rent, at 89 against a national average of 100, where goods are 99. Based on state-wide price levels, because this agency is not tied to a single metro 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 isRome Police Department reported 86 sworn officers and 12 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 2.2 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 38,969.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 Rome says about itself
The principal responsibility of Uniform Patrol is to provide twenty-four-hour protection and services for the citizens and visitors to the City of Rome.
What Rome does
The Rome Police Department serves the city of Rome, Georgia, the seat of Floyd County in the state's north-west, from 375 Technology Parkway. Its Uniform Patrol Division sits within a Field Operations Bureau alongside a Selective Enforcement Unit, and the Department publishes one starting salary with a career top-out above it reached by step increases. Officers of the patrol division respond to every call for service.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 21 September 2026. City of Rome, Police Department — Join Our Team: "Starting salary - $53,040". — open the source document
$53,040 is the City's own annual figure and no arithmetic has been applied to it. ROME PRICES NO CADET CLASS: the page publishes one starting salary and names no academy, recruit, trainee or pre-service rate anywhere beneath it, so there is nothing to reject and no academy gate to read. The other figure on the page is the TOP of the ladder and is not a second entry rate - "Through experience, dedication, and step increases, officers can reach a maximum top-out salary of $82,212 annually" - which is a ceiling reached by step increases over a career. Excluded from the figure: the years of service pay incentive, the take-home vehicle, the pension and the life insurance, which the same page lists separately as benefits. A CORRECTION TO AN EARLIER READING, WORTH KEEPING: this figure WAS reachable all along. The page held to be JavaScript-only was the job-detail view; the Join Our Team page serves the salary block in plain HTML. THE FIGURE CARRIES NO EFFECTIVE DATE. NEXT DOCUMENT: the City of Rome classification and pay plan or adopted budget.
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 Rome 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. Rome starts at $53,040, so $15,100 below the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Rome Police Department officer make?
Rome Police Department starts a new officer on $53,040 a year, about $25.50 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 Rome, Police Department — Join Our Team: "Starting salary - $53,040"..
Is that good pay for a police officer in Georgia?
It ranks #56 of 80 agencies we have verified in Georgia — 24 pay less, 55 pay more in the state — and #1,956 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $13,645 below, and against other municipal agencies $15,100 below.
Compare with another department
Put Rome 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 GA
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Rome | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chamblee Police Department | Municipal | 68 | $73,733 | +$20,693 | #729 |
| 2 | Sandy Springs Police Department | Municipal | 149 | $71,686 | +$18,646 | #836 |
| 3 | Georgia Bureau of Investigation | State | 338 | $64,977 | +$11,937 | #1,265 |
| 4 | Duluth Police Department | Municipal | 57 | $64,755 | +$11,715 | #1,279 |
| 5 | Garden City Police Department | Municipal | 35 | $64,072 | +$11,032 | #1,314 |
| 6 | Georgia State Patrol | State | — | $63,684 | +$10,644 | #1,336 |
| 7 | South Fulton Police Department | Municipal | 213 | $63,440 | +$10,400 | #1,354 |
| 8 | Hall County Sheriff's Office | County | 283 | $63,365 | +$10,325 | #1,359 |
| 9 | Roswell Police Department | Municipal | 154 | $62,462 | +$9,422 | #1,413 |
| 10 | Dunwoody Police Department | Municipal | 66 | $62,301 | +$9,261 | #1,428 |
| 11 | Savannah Police Department | Municipal | 425 | $61,989 | +$8,949 | #1,450 |
| 12 | Alpharetta Police Department | Municipal | 105 | $61,100 | +$8,060 | #1,495 |
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