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Show Low 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.
Show Low Police Department starts at $66,581 a year — about $32.01 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $1,809 below the median of the 1,681 agencies on this list, and $4,683 below the median for municipal agencies.
How big the department isShow Low Police Department reported 34 sworn officers and 24 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 2.7 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 12,521.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 Show Low says about itself
The Department's mission is to have "A Passion for Excellence!"
What Show Low does
Show Low officers carry out patrol, investigations, traffic regulation and specialized law-enforcement assignments under the department's rules, mission, goals and objectives.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 13 August 2026. $32.01/hour / $66,580.80 annual Police Officer class minimum. Current official City Police Officer class specification publishes $32. — open the source document
$32.01/hour / $66,580.80 annual Police Officer class minimum. Current official City Police Officer class specification publishes $32.01-$38.
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 Show Low 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. Show Low starts at $66,581, so $4,706 below the municipal middle.
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How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Show Low Police Department officer make?
Show Low Police Department starts a new officer on $66,581 a year, about $32.01 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 $32.01/hour / $66,580.80 annual Police Officer class minimum. Current official City Police Officer class specification publishes $32..
Is that good pay for a police officer in Arizona?
It ranks #12 of 26 agencies we have verified in Arizona — 14 pay less, 11 pay more in the state — and #943 of 1,681 nationally. Against the national median it is $1,809 below, and against other municipal agencies $4,683 below.
Compare with another department
Put Show Low 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 AZ
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Show | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Goodyear Police Department | Municipal | 174 | $77,147 | +$10,566 | #475 |
| 2 | Phoenix Police Department | Municipal | 2,490 | $75,847 | +$9,266 | #526 |
| 3 | Queen Creek Police Department | Municipal | 132 | $74,693 | +$8,112 | #569 |
| 4 | Chandler Police Department | Municipal | 348 | $74,610 | +$8,029 | #573 |
| 5 | Mesa Police Department | Municipal | 885 | $73,972 | +$7,391 | #596 |
| 6 | Casa Grande Police Department | Municipal | 82 | $72,860 | +$6,279 | #632 |
| 7 | El Mirage Police Department | Municipal | 53 | $71,573 | +$4,992 | #693 |
| 8 | Maricopa Police Department | Municipal | 89 | $71,074 | +$4,493 | #719 |
| 9 | Flagstaff Police Department | Municipal | 107 | $68,203 | +$1,622 | #850 |
| 10 | Navajo County Sheriff's Office | County | 59 | $67,496 | +$915 | #892 |
| 11 | Bullhead City Police Department | Municipal | 66 | $67,038 | +$458 | #914 |
| 13 | Apache Junction Police Department | Municipal | 88 | $65,874 | −$707 | #974 |
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