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Springfield 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.
Springfield Police Department starts at $80,764 a year — about $38.83 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $14,079 above the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $12,624 above the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Ohio run about 7% below the national average, so this goes about as far as $87,054 would somewhere at average prices — $6,291 more than the headline figure. Most of that is rent, at 73 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 isSpringfield Police Department reported 123 sworn officers and 11 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 2.1 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 58,026.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 Springfield says about itself
The Springfield Police Department will work in partnership with the community to promote open communication, education, cooperation, and fair and equal treatment, to improve the quality of life, promote unity, encourage respect, and make Springfield a safe community.
What Springfield does
The Springfield Police Division serves the city of Springfield, Ohio, in Clark County. It publishes a sworn pay ladder by year of service - a first, second and third year rate, and a patrol officer band above them - and prices no academy or recruit class beneath it. The Division states that it works in partnership with the community to promote open communication, education and cooperation, and fair and equal treatment.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 21 September 2026. Springfield Police Division, Join Springfield PD — Salary Range and Top Step Incentives: "First Year: $80,763.52". — open the source document
$80,763.52 is the Division's own annual figure for the first year of service and no arithmetic has been applied to it. SPRINGFIELD PRICES NO CADET CLASS: the page publishes no academy, recruit or pre-service rate anywhere, so the lowest published sworn figure is the first-year officer rate and there is no lower training rate to reject. The figures above it are TIME steps at one moment, not the entry rate at different dates - $85,514.31 in the second year and $88,063.52 in the third - and the "Patrol Officer: $95,015.90-$112,118.76" band sits above those again, so none of them is the entry figure. Excluded from the figure: the top step incentives the same heading names, which attach to the top of the ladder and not to a first-year officer. THE FIGURE CARRIES NO EFFECTIVE DATE. NEXT DOCUMENT: the City of Springfield / FOP patrol officers agreement on file with the Ohio State Employment Relations Board, which would date the ladder.
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 Springfield 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. Springfield starts at $80,764, so $12,624 above the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Springfield Police Department officer make?
Springfield Police Department starts a new officer on $80,764 a year, about $38.83 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 Springfield Police Division, Join Springfield PD — Salary Range and Top Step Incentives: "First Year: $80,763.52"..
Is that good pay for a police officer in Ohio?
It ranks #4 of 53 agencies we have verified in Ohio — 49 pay less, 3 pay more in the state — and #468 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $14,079 above, and against other municipal agencies $12,624 above.
Compare with another department
Put Springfield 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 OH
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Springfield | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Westlake Police Department | Municipal | — | $88,712 | +$7,948 | #291 |
| 2 | University Heights Police Department | Municipal | 29 | $82,259 | +$1,495 | #421 |
| 3 | Powell Police Department | Municipal | 21 | $81,426 | +$663 | #444 |
| 5 | Stow Police Department | Municipal | 45 | $80,288 | −$476 | #486 |
| 6 | Cincinnati Police Department | Municipal | 971 | $79,359 | −$1,404 | #513 |
| 7 | Hilliard Police Department | Municipal | 63 | $79,248 | −$1,516 | #515 |
| 8 | Kettering Police Department | Municipal | 79 | $79,227 | −$1,537 | #517 |
| 9 | Canfield Police Department | Municipal | 21 | $79,002 | −$1,762 | #522 |
| 10 | Mentor Police Department | Municipal | — | $77,849 | −$2,915 | #563 |
| 11 | Dayton Police Department | Municipal | 342 | $77,411 | −$3,352 | #575 |
| 12 | West Chester Township Police Department | Municipal | 92 | $77,027 | −$3,736 | #584 |
| 13 | Beavercreek Police Department | Municipal | 53 | $76,918 | −$3,846 | #588 |
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