Sheridan County Sheriff's Office entry pay

About Sheridan County

The Sheridan County Sheriff's Office polices Sheridan County in northern Wyoming, against the Montana line at the foot of the Bighorn Mountains, from 54 West 13th Street in the county seat of Sheridan under Sheriff Levi Dominguez. Its patrol division is nineteen sworn peace officers covering over 2,500 square miles of small communities, farm and ranch land, small industrial areas, private subdivisions and large tracts of public land — roughly a third of the area the office covers is state or federal public land, so the division works alongside federal, state and local agencies as a matter of routine, and provides law enforcement service in US Forest Service areas regardless of the contract period. Deputies patrol approximately 522 miles of county roads and 343 miles of state highways. Beyond patrol the office runs criminal investigation, civil process service, courtroom security, a detention center, a dispatch center, records, concealed weapon permits, fingerprinting, VIN and HIN inspections, foreclosure sales, a school resource programme and D.A.R.E. It has held a memorandum of understanding with the Wyoming Livestock Board since 2021 for targeted livestock patrol, particularly along the Wyoming-Montana border and across the summer and autumn ranges. The office names seven tenets in its mission statement: leadership, integrity, respect, honesty, service, trust and teamwork.

Where the figure comes from

Checked 8 September 2026. Sheridan County Sheriff's Office Employment page, published by Sheridan County — stated starting salary for a patrol deputy with no experience — open the source document
Read 8 September 2026 from the county's own Sheriff's Office Employment page, which states in its own words that the starting salary for a patrol deputy is $54,184.46 a year, $26.05 an hour, WITH NO EXPERIENCE. That phrasing settles the entry test on the page itself rather than by inference: the office says in the same paragraph that lateral pay is considered DOE for both patrol and detention, so the published figure is the non-lateral rate and the experienced rate is separately negotiated. The detention deputy rate of $51,573.54 a year, $24.79 an hour, is a corrections post rather than a patrol one and is excluded, as is the control operator position. The office states that it runs a competitive step and grade pay scale, so this is step one of a ladder; the ladder itself is not published on the page and step ladders are not collected. Benefits named alongside: health, dental and vision insurance, vacation, sick leave and participation in the statewide law enforcement retirement system.
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 Sheridan County sits is partly about the agency and partly about which level of policing it belongs to. The three levels do not pay the same.

How it ranks

Common questions

How much does a Sheridan County Sheriff's Office officer make?

Sheridan County Sheriff's Office starts a new officer on $54,184 a year, about $26.05 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 Sheridan County Sheriff's Office Employment page, published by Sheridan County — stated starting salary for a patrol deputy with no experience.

Is that good pay for a police officer in Wyoming?

It ranks #16 of 17 agencies we have verified in Wyoming — 1 pay less, 15 pay more in the state — and #1,899 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $12,500 below, and against other county agencies $9,375 below.

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