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Roswell 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.
Roswell Police Department starts at $62,462 a year — about $30.03 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $4,222 below the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $5,678 below the median for municipal agencies.
How big the department isRoswell Police Department reported 154 sworn officers and 44 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 1.7 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 92,178.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 Roswell says about itself
The Roswell Police Department is committed to providing excellent public safety service by embracing the principles of community policing, the framework of “21st Century Policing,” and the tenets of procedural justice – to build trust, ensure fairness, and promote transparency.
What Roswell does
Roswell Police Department is the City's municipal law-enforcement agency with sworn police positions and an academy and field-training process for new officers. The department provides patrol and other police services to the Roswell community.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 10 August 2026. City of Roswell Police Career Opportunities page — open the source document
Their source is effective 10 August 2026.
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 Roswell 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. Roswell starts at $62,462, so $5,678 below the municipal middle.
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How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Roswell Police Department officer make?
Roswell Police Department starts a new officer on $62,462 a year, about $30.03 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 Roswell Police Career Opportunities page.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Georgia?
It ranks #9 of 80 agencies we have verified in Georgia — 71 pay less, 8 pay more in the state — and #1,413 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $4,222 below, and against other municipal agencies $5,678 below.
Compare with another department
Put Roswell 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 Roswell | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chamblee Police Department | Municipal | 68 | $73,733 | +$11,271 | #729 |
| 2 | Sandy Springs Police Department | Municipal | 149 | $71,686 | +$9,224 | #836 |
| 3 | Georgia Bureau of Investigation | State | 338 | $64,977 | +$2,514 | #1,265 |
| 4 | Duluth Police Department | Municipal | 57 | $64,755 | +$2,293 | #1,279 |
| 5 | Garden City Police Department | Municipal | 35 | $64,072 | +$1,609 | #1,314 |
| 6 | Georgia State Patrol | State | — | $63,684 | +$1,222 | #1,336 |
| 7 | South Fulton Police Department | Municipal | 213 | $63,440 | +$978 | #1,354 |
| 8 | Hall County Sheriff's Office | County | 283 | $63,365 | +$903 | #1,359 |
| 10 | Dunwoody Police Department | Municipal | 66 | $62,301 | −$161 | #1,428 |
| 11 | Savannah Police Department | Municipal | 425 | $61,989 | −$473 | #1,450 |
| 12 | Alpharetta Police Department | Municipal | 105 | $61,100 | −$1,362 | #1,495 |
| 13 | DeKalb County Police Department | County | 525 | $61,000 | −$1,462 | #1,504 |
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