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Selbyville 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.
Selbyville Police Department starts at $68,788 a year — about $33.07 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $398 above the median of the 1,681 agencies on this list, and $2,477 below the median for municipal agencies.
How big the department isSelbyville Police Department reported 10 sworn officers and 1 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 3.0 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 3,387.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 Selbyville says about itself
The mission of the Selbyville Police Department is to enhance the quality of life in the Town of Selbyville.
What Selbyville does
Selbyville Police Department recruits certified and non-certified Police Officers and participates in Delaware POST training.
Shifts at Selbyville
Officers work twelve-hour shifts with every other weekend off — two weeks of day shifts from 6am to 6pm, then two weeks of nights from 6pm to 6am.
The agency publishes the shift length but not a named cycle. These are the 12-hour rotations departments most often build on it: Pitman, 4 on, 4 off, DuPont, Panama.
A fortnightly flip between days and nights is two patterns, not one, and the changeover never lands on the same date twice. BlueShifts holds both halves of the cycle and draws the months ahead, so you can see which weeks are nights before you plan anything around them.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 16 August 2026. Town of Selbyville — Police Officer job advertisement, updated 8 July 2025 — open the source document
Selbyville advertises a non-certified starting salary of $68,787.68 from 1 February 2026, up from $66,142.00 before that date. A certified applicant is placed by rank and years of service creditable up to ten years, with a corporal on ten years earning $83,772.80 from the same date. The contract gives a five per cent annual rise, made up of a one per cent step and a four per cent cost of living increase. Officers work twelve-hour shifts with every other weekend off, two weeks of days from 6am to 6pm followed by two weeks of nights from 6pm to 6am.
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 Selbyville 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. Selbyville starts at $68,788, so $2,499 below the municipal middle.
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Common questions
How much does a Selbyville Police Department officer make?
Selbyville Police Department starts a new officer on $68,788 a year, about $33.07 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 Town of Selbyville — Police Officer job advertisement, updated 8 July 2025.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Delaware?
It ranks #8 of 14 agencies we have verified in Delaware — 6 pay less, 7 pay more in the state — and #824 of 1,681 nationally. Against the national median it is $398 above, and against other municipal agencies $2,477 below.
What shifts do Selbyville Police Department officers work?
Officers work twelve-hour shifts with every other weekend off — two weeks of day shifts from 6am to 6pm, then two weeks of nights from 6pm to 6am. That is the agency's own published wording; the pattern is drawn on this page.
Compare with another department
Put Selbyville 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 DE
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Selbyville | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Delaware State Police | State | 783 | $91,265 | +$22,477 | #189 |
| 2 | New Castle City Police Department | Municipal | — | $75,338 | +$6,551 | #544 |
| 3 | University of Delaware Police Department | Special jurisdiction | 48 | $74,679 | +$5,891 | #570 |
| 4 | Middletown Police Department | Municipal | 38 | $74,550 | +$5,762 | #576 |
| 5 | New Castle County Police | County | 414 | $74,453 | +$5,665 | #582 |
| 6 | Dover Police Department | Municipal | 101 | $72,000 | +$3,212 | #668 |
| 7 | Newark Police Department | Municipal | 72 | $70,000 | +$1,212 | #767 |
| 9 | Seaford Police Department | Municipal | 31 | $68,474 | −$314 | #838 |
| 10 | Milford Police Department | Municipal | 35 | $67,971 | −$817 | #864 |
| 11 | Wilmington Police Department | Municipal | 279 | $67,600 | −$1,188 | #888 |
| 12 | Cheswold Police Department | Municipal | 4 | $57,500 | −$11,288 | #1,359 |
| 13 | Delaware Capitol Police | State | — | $53,807 | −$14,981 | #1,475 |
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