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Sewalls Point 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.
Sewalls Point Police Department starts at $63,008 a year — about $30.29 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $3,677 below the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $5,132 below the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Florida run about 3% above the national average, so this is worth roughly $60,928 somewhere at average prices — $2,080 less than the headline figure. Most of that is rent, at 122 against a national average of 100, 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.
What Sewalls Point says about itself
The Sewall's Point Police Department will provide for the general protection, safety, and well-being of residents, businesses, and visitors to the Town of Sewall's Point. To accomplish our mission, the Department will adhere to the values of professionalism, integrity, impartiality, sensitivity, and respect.
What Sewalls Point does
The Sewall's Point Police Department is the municipal force for the Town of Sewall's Point, a peninsula town of about 2,000 residents in Martin County, east of Stuart. It runs vacation house checks and a free home video-documentation service for residents, recorded with equipment bought through a crime prevention grant.
Shifts at Sewalls Point
Sewall's Point states its officers work twelve-hour shifts, in a department of ten sworn including the chief for a town of about 2,000.
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, 3-4-4-3.
In a ten-officer department the cycle is the roster, and one absence moves everyone. BlueShifts makes the month easy to share so cover is arranged from the same picture.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 1 September 2026. Town of Sewall's Point / PBA Reopener Memorandum of Understanding, Exhibit B, Article 25 Wages, Section 25.3 Police Department Step Pay Plan (Hourly Rate): Entry-Level Officer Step 1 starting pay $28.85 per hour, tentatively agreed 28 August 2024 and adopted by the Town Commission on 9 September 2024 — open the source document
Their source is effective 9 September 2024.
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 Sewalls Point 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. Sewalls Point starts at $63,008, so $5,132 below the municipal middle.
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Common questions
How much does a Sewalls Point Police Department officer make?
Sewalls Point Police Department starts a new officer on $63,008 a year, about $30.29 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 Sewall's Point / PBA Reopener Memorandum of Understanding, Exhibit B, Article 25 Wages, Section 25.3 Police Department Step Pay Plan (Hourly Rate): Entry-Level Officer Step 1 starting pay $28.85 per hour, tentatively agreed 28 August 2024 and adopted by the Town Commission on 9 September 2024.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Florida?
It ranks #122 of 303 agencies we have verified in Florida — 181 pay less, 121 pay more in the state — and #1,383 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $3,677 below, and against other municipal agencies $5,132 below.
What shifts do Sewalls Point Police Department officers work?
Sewall's Point states its officers work twelve-hour shifts, in a department of ten sworn including the chief for a town of about 2,000. That is the agency's own published wording; the pattern is drawn on this page.
Compare with another department
Put Sewalls Point 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 FL
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Sewalls | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boca Raton Police Services Department | Municipal | 195 | $91,007 | +$27,999 | #244 |
| 2 | Fort Lauderdale Police Department | Municipal | 565 | $81,723 | +$18,715 | #433 |
| 3 | Plantation Police Department | Municipal | 164 | $81,000 | +$17,992 | #459 |
| 4 | Hillsboro Beach Police Department | Municipal | 15 | $80,954 | +$17,946 | #461 |
| 5 | Pinecrest Police Department | Municipal | 47 | $80,912 | +$17,904 | #464 |
| 6 | Sunny Isles Beach Police Department | Municipal | 65 | $80,000 | +$16,992 | #496 |
| 7 | Indian Creek Village Public Safety Department | Municipal | 10 | $79,850 | +$16,842 | #500 |
| 8 | Sunrise Police Department | Municipal | 190 | $79,071 | +$16,063 | #520 |
| 9 | Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office | County | 1,720 | $78,828 | +$15,820 | #526 |
| 10 | Aventura Police Department | Municipal | 91 | $78,556 | +$15,548 | #536 |
| 11 | Longboat Key Police Department | Municipal | 19 | $78,430 | +$15,422 | #543 |
| 12 | Manalapan Police Department | Municipal | 13 | $78,280 | +$15,272 | #549 |
Base pay is only part of the year
Whatever the figure above, the rotation is what decides your year — which weekends you lose, when the changeovers land, what you can plan around. Save yours once and BlueShifts shows it a year ahead, with the off-duty jobs you take and what each one paid.
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