Spalding County Sheriff's Office entry pay

What Spalding County says about itself

It is the mission of the Spalding County Sheriff's Office to safeguard the lives and property of the diverse community we serve, improve quality of life, and ensure that our county is a safe place to live, work and visit.

What Spalding County does

The Spalding County Sheriff's Office works from the Justice Boulevard complex in Griffin, south of Atlanta, and is both CALEA-accredited and state-certified. Its Uniform Patrol Division polices the unincorporated county, answers calls for service and takes 911 emergencies, with 39 sworn deputy posts across four shifts on twelve-hour rotations - nine deputies to a shift when fully staffed, each under a lieutenant and a sergeant. The division also holds four K-9 teams for apprehension and narcotics work, a two-deputy H.E.A.T. unit set up in 2022, and the GCIC operators who enter and clear state records for stolen property, vehicles, missing persons and warrants. Beside patrol the office runs criminal investigations, fugitive apprehension and the detention center. Administrative offices keep weekday hours; field deputies and the jail run around the clock.

Where the figure comes from

Checked 22 September 2026. Spalding County Sheriff's Office, job description "Deputy Sheriff II (Position #2602)", effective July 16, 2024: "Pay Grade PS18; Hiring Salary is $25.46 per hour; schedule is based on 84 hour pay periods; 26 bi-weekly pay periods per year", with the minimum qualification "High School diploma or state-awarded GED required with successful completion of required certification courses; must be a Georgia P.O.S.T. Certified Peace Officer in good standing." — open the source document
$52,956.80 is $25.46 an hour x 2,080, the roster's standard divisor, used so this figure sits beside every other hourly row. SPALDING HANDS OVER ITS OWN MULTIPLIER AND IT IS A BIGGER ONE: "schedule is based on 84 hour pay periods; 26 bi-weekly pay periods per year" is 2,184 hours, which makes the deputy's actual annual $55,604.64 - $2,647.84 above the row. That is recorded here rather than built into the figure, because changing the divisor for one agency would break every comparison on the site. The 84-hour fortnight matches the Uniform Patrol Division's published tour: four shifts on twelve-hour rotations. WATCH THE CLASS NUMBERS HERE - THEY RUN THE OTHER WAY. Spalding's "Deputy Sheriff I" is NOT a junior patrol grade: the office's own employment page titles it "DEPUTY SHERIFF I (NON-CERTIFIED DETENTION OFFICER)", so DSI is the jail class and DSII, "CERTIFIED PEACE OFFICER", is the patrol one. Taking DSI because it is numbered lower would put a jailer's rate in a patrol row. NO PRE-ACADEMY WAGE COMPETES WITH THIS FIGURE, because Spalding does not pay one: the DSII description requires the applicant to BE a Georgia P.O.S.T. certified peace officer in good standing at the point of hire, so an uncertified person enters through the detention class instead. That is the Floyd County shape. The description also sets no minimum years of prior service, so $25.46 is the hiring rate for a certified deputy with none - the document calls it the "Hiring Salary" in those words. The post is non-exempt under the FLSA.
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 Spalding 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 Spalding County Sheriff's Office officer make?

Spalding County Sheriff's Office starts a new officer on $52,957 a year, about $25.46 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 Spalding County Sheriff's Office, job description "Deputy Sheriff II (Position #2602)", effective July 16, 2024: "Pay Grade PS18; Hiring Salary is $25.46 per hour; schedule is based on 84 hour pay periods; 26 bi-weekly pay periods per year", with the minimum qualification "High School diploma or state-awarded GED required with successful completion of required certification courses; must be a Georgia P.O.S.T. Certified Peace Officer in good standing.".

Is that good pay for a police officer in Georgia?

It ranks #57 of 80 agencies we have verified in Georgia — 23 pay less, 56 pay more in the state — and #1,962 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $13,728 below, and against other county agencies $10,603 below.

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