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San Lorenzo Municipal Police 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.
San Lorenzo Municipal Police starts at $25,200 a year — about $12.12 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $43,190 below the median of the 1,681 agencies on this list, and $3,036 below the median for territory agencies.
About San Lorenzo Municipal
The Policía Municipal de San Lorenzo is the municipal force of a mountain town in Puerto Rico's east-central interior, charged in the municipality's own words with enforcing the laws, protecting the life and property of residents, keeping public order and preventing crime. It is unusually close to the Commonwealth force: by ordinance San Lorenzo adopts the Negociado de la Policía de Puerto Rico's own general orders and regulations as the municipal force's rulebook, and its Comisionado is a Puerto Rico Police officer serving on secondment under a formal agreement with the Departamento de Seguridad Pública.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 19 August 2026. OATRH empleos.pr.gov — Convocatoria MSL-01-2022, Policía Municipal, Municipio de San Lorenzo — open the source document
The Commonwealth's own employment portal states the class's Salario Mínimo Mensual as $2,100, and its standing footnote provides that a hire from outside government receives exactly that class minimum; $25,200 is the figure annualised (x12). The convocatoria is the 2022 series and closed in December 2022, and no later San Lorenzo ordinance or convocatoria restating the police scale was found (2024-2025 series checked), so this remains the last officially published minimum. Checked 19 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 San Lorenzo Municipal 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. San Lorenzo Municipal starts at $25,200, so $3,036 below the territory middle.
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Common questions
How much does a San Lorenzo Municipal Police officer make?
San Lorenzo Municipal Police starts a new officer on $25,200 a year, about $12.12 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 OATRH empleos.pr.gov — Convocatoria MSL-01-2022, Policía Municipal, Municipio de San Lorenzo.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Puerto Rico?
It ranks #4 of 5 agencies we have verified in Puerto Rico — 1 pay less, 3 pay more in the state — and #1,678 of 1,681 nationally. Against the national median it is $43,190 below, and against other territory agencies $3,036 below.
The agencies either side of it
Other agencies in PR
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs San | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Puerto Rico Police Bureau | Territory | — | $43,354 | +$18,154 | #1,642 |
| 2 | San Juan Municipal Police | Territory | 644 | $32,820 | +$7,620 | #1,675 |
| 3 | Caguas Municipal Police | Territory | 108 | $28,236 | +$3,036 | #1,677 |
| 5 | Coamo Municipal Police | Territory | 15 | $24,000 | −$1,200 | #1,679 |
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