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Sheboygan 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.
Sheboygan Police Department starts at $70,478 a year — about $33.88 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $3,794 above the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $2,338 above the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Wisconsin run about 6% below the national average, so this goes about as far as $74,901 would somewhere at average prices — $4,423 more than the headline figure. Most of that is rent, at 79 against a national average of 100, where goods are 94. 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 isSheboygan Police Department reported 81 sworn officers and 21 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 1.6 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 49,537.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 Sheboygan says about itself
The Sheboygan Police Department’s vision is to make Sheboygan the safest community of its size in the United States.
What Sheboygan does
The Sheboygan Police Department serves the City of Sheboygan on Lake Michigan in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin.
Sheboygan’s rotation, in BlueShifts
The Department's own 2026 salary and benefits sheet prints the Patrol Officer work schedule in two lines: “Officers work a 5 on, 3 off schedule (4) 8-hour shifts and (1) 10.5-hour shift on the middle day of the 5-day work week.” That is forty-two and a half hours across five worked days, then three off.
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Where the figure comes from
Checked 20 September 2026. Sheboygan Police Department 2026 Police Officer Salary & Benefits sheet, Starting — open the source document
Salary Range, January 2026. The sheet prints Starting as $70,478.46 to $71,809.48, the spread being the education incentives; $70,478.46 is the rate without them. New hires can receive up to five years of credit for prior police experience, which is what the upper starting figures on the City's employment page reflect.
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 Sheboygan 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. Sheboygan starts at $70,478, so $2,338 above the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Sheboygan Police Department officer make?
Sheboygan Police Department starts a new officer on $70,478 a year, about $33.88 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 Sheboygan Police Department 2026 Police Officer Salary & Benefits sheet, Starting.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Wisconsin?
It ranks #26 of 81 agencies we have verified in Wisconsin — 55 pay less, 25 pay more in the state — and #910 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $3,794 above, and against other municipal agencies $2,338 above.
What shifts do Sheboygan Police Department officers work?
The Department's own 2026 salary and benefits sheet prints the Patrol Officer work schedule in two lines: “Officers work a 5 on, 3 off schedule (4) 8-hour shifts and (1) 10.5-hour shift on the middle day of the 5-day work week.” That is forty-two and a half hours across five worked days, then three off. That is the agency's own published wording; the pattern is drawn on this page.
Compare with another department
Put Sheboygan 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 WI
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Sheboygan | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Menomonee Falls Police Department | Municipal | 59 | $82,618 | +$12,139 | #414 |
| 2 | Fitchburg Police Department | Municipal | 50 | $78,790 | +$8,312 | #527 |
| 3 | Brookfield Police Department | Municipal | 80 | $78,666 | +$8,187 | #533 |
| 4 | Cedarburg Police Department | Municipal | 24 | $77,561 | +$7,083 | #571 |
| 5 | Stoughton Police Department | Municipal | 23 | $76,378 | +$5,899 | #607 |
| 6 | Waukesha County Sheriff's Office | County | 158 | $76,128 | +$5,650 | #614 |
| 7 | River Falls Police Department | Municipal | 27 | $75,525 | +$5,046 | #647 |
| 8 | Wisconsin State Patrol | State | 445 | $75,462 | +$4,984 | #650 |
| 9 | Grafton Police Department | Municipal | 22 | $75,102 | +$4,624 | #672 |
| 10 | Dodge County Sheriff's Office | County | 64 | $75,088 | +$4,610 | #673 |
| 11 | St. Croix County Sheriff's Office | County | 98 | $74,695 | +$4,217 | #688 |
| 12 | Kenosha Police Department | Municipal | 231 | $74,640 | +$4,162 | #692 |
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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