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Round Rock 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.
Round Rock Police Department starts at $80,350 a year — about $38.63 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $13,666 above the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $12,210 above the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Texas run about 3% below the national average, so this goes about as far as $82,787 would somewhere at average prices — $2,436 more than the headline figure. That average hides a wide spread: utilities at 88, where goods are 98. 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 isRound Rock Police Department reported 177 sworn officers and 97 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 1.3 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 139,331.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 Round Rock says about itself
The Round Rock Police Department, in alliance with our community, provides public safety and promotes a high quality of life. Its vision is to effectively adapt to challenges created by a rapidly growing community striving to maintain its low crime rate and high quality of life, and to deliver policing that responds to the needs of the community and engages them to share in the responsibility. The department is guided by the C.H.I.P. values: Community, Honour, Integrity and Pride.
What Round Rock does
Round Rock Police Department works from a single 106,000 square-foot headquarters — a repurposed computer chip plant — and is guided by C.H.I.P. values of community, honor, integrity and pride. It is an accredited agency running its own TCOLE-listed academy on North Mays Street, and its 2022 resident survey found policing rated the most important service the city provides, with 91 percent of those with an opinion feeling safe or very safe
Where the figure comes from
Checked 20 August 2026. Round Rock Police Department — Pay Step Plan, Pay Scale for FY 2025-2026 — open the source document
Round Rock Police Department's own recruiting site publishes its Pay Step Plan as a PDF: 'Pay Scale for FY 2025-2026', Officer Base $38.63 an hour = $80,350.40 a year, Step 1 $82,742.40, running to Step 12 $110,240. The city's budget office states fiscal year 2025-2026 runs 1 Oct 2025 to 30 Sep 2026. Base is the first step of the officer scale and the step a hire with no prior service occupies: Round Rock hires Police Cadets into its own academy as a separate class, and lateral entrants receive a one-for-one step credit for each year of qualifying law enforcement experience, up to ten years.
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 Round Rock 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. Round Rock starts at $80,350, so $12,210 above the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Round Rock Police Department officer make?
Round Rock Police Department starts a new officer on $80,350 a year, about $38.63 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 Round Rock Police Department — Pay Step Plan, Pay Scale for FY 2025-2026.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Texas?
It ranks #28 of 151 agencies we have verified in Texas — 123 pay less, 27 pay more in the state — and #483 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $13,666 above, and against other municipal agencies $12,210 above.
Compare with another department
Put Round Rock 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 TX
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Round | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Allen Police Department | Municipal | 153 | $91,106 | +$10,756 | #241 |
| 2 | Frisco Police Department | Municipal | 270 | $90,750 | +$10,400 | #252 |
| 3 | Plano Police Department | Municipal | 400 | $90,729 | +$10,379 | #253 |
| 4 | Grand Prairie Police Department | Municipal | 287 | $90,000 | +$9,650 | #270 |
| 5 | Hurst Police Department | Municipal | 61 | $87,048 | +$6,698 | #322 |
| 6 | Lewisville Police Department | Municipal | 181 | $86,268 | +$5,918 | #335 |
| 7 | Coppell Police Department | Municipal | 60 | $84,968 | +$4,618 | #355 |
| 8 | Rockwall Police Department | Municipal | 95 | $84,448 | +$4,098 | #362 |
| 9 | Farmers Branch Police Department | Municipal | 83 | $84,440 | +$4,090 | #363 |
| 10 | The Colony Police Department | Municipal | 86 | $84,082 | +$3,732 | #371 |
| 11 | Baytown Police Department | Municipal | 172 | $84,049 | +$3,699 | #372 |
| 12 | McKinney Police Department | Municipal | 248 | $83,992 | +$3,642 | #374 |
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