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Springville 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.
Springville Police Department starts at $61,755 a year — about $29.69 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $4,930 below the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $6,385 below the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Utah run about 1% below the national average, so this goes about as far as $62,465 would somewhere at average prices — $710 more than the headline figure. That average hides a wide spread: utilities at 79, where goods are 96. 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 isSpringville Police Department reported 31 sworn officers and 14 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 0.9 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 36,202.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 Springville says about itself
The mission of the Police Department is to provide superior law enforcement through professional service, effective teamwork, fostering trust, confidence, and respect for all persons.
What Springville does
Springville Police Department hires Police Officer Trainees and sponsors them through the academy, moving them up five percent on completion of academy and field training and another five percent after a year as a Police Officer I
Where the figure comes from
Checked 21 August 2026. Springville City Corporation official applicant portal, “Police Officer I or II” posting — open the source document
$61,755.20. The city's own posting names the entry grade outright: **“Police Officer Trainee - Entry Level - Grade 14: Starting pay $29.69/hr”**; $29.69 x 2,080 = $61,755.20. The trainee **“may advance to Police Officer I, with a pay increase of 5%, after academy and field training are completed”**, and Police Officer I is then quoted “Up to $38.20/hr DOE”, advancing again by 5% to Police Officer II after one year. **THE TWO HALVES OF THIS POSTING ARE A TEXTBOOK ILLUSTRATION OF THE RULE: the Police Officer I half is a DOE ceiling and unusable on its own, while the Trainee half states an entry rate plainly.** Both sit at Grade 14 and both are in the same advert. SOURCING NOTE, STATED PLAINLY: the posting is closed and its body now renders as an image; the wording above is the city's own page metadata, served from springville.casellehire.com, Springville City Corporation's own applicant system. A SECOND, INDEPENDENT SOURCE EXISTS AND IS WORTH PULLING WHEN POSSIBLE — Springville prints **“Exhibit A – Pay Scale” in every annual budget** (FY2027 interim, page 249 of utah.gov/pmn/files/1448505.pdf), which would confirm Grade 14 and date it.
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 Springville 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. Springville starts at $61,755, so $6,385 below the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Springville Police Department officer make?
Springville Police Department starts a new officer on $61,755 a year, about $29.69 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 Springville City Corporation official applicant portal, “Police Officer I or II” posting.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Utah?
It ranks #24 of 31 agencies we have verified in Utah — 7 pay less, 23 pay more in the state — and #1,466 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $4,930 below, and against other municipal agencies $6,385 below.
Compare with another department
Put Springville 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 UT
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Springville | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Salt Lake City Police Department | Municipal | 589 | $76,315 | +$14,560 | #612 |
| 2 | Santa Clara Police Department | Municipal | — | $75,982 | +$14,227 | #629 |
| 3 | Taylorsville Police Department | Municipal | — | $75,941 | +$14,186 | #634 |
| 4 | Utah Highway Patrol | State | 536 | $75,878 | +$14,123 | #636 |
| 5 | Sandy Police Department | Municipal | 115 | $73,112 | +$11,357 | #753 |
| 6 | West Valley City Police Department | Municipal | — | $73,045 | +$11,290 | #757 |
| 7 | Cottonwood Heights Police Department | Municipal | 43 | $69,763 | +$8,008 | #958 |
| 8 | Murray City Police Department | Municipal | 82 | $68,890 | +$7,134 | #1,000 |
| 9 | Unified Police Department of Greater Salt Lake | Municipal | — | $68,099 | +$6,344 | #1,050 |
| 10 | South Salt Lake Police Department | Municipal | 71 | $66,997 | +$5,242 | #1,120 |
| 11 | Orem Police Department | Municipal | 94 | $66,768 | +$5,013 | #1,137 |
| 12 | Moab Police Department | Municipal | 19 | $66,747 | +$4,992 | #1,143 |
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