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Stillwater 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.
Stillwater Police Department starts at $59,446 a year — about $28.58 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $7,238 below the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $8,694 below the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Oklahoma run about 12% below the national average, so this goes about as far as $67,673 would somewhere at average prices — $8,227 more than the headline figure. Most of that is rent, at 63 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 isStillwater Police Department reported 84 sworn officers and 44 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 1.7 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 50,585.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 Stillwater says about itself
A strong community-policing philosophy guides the efforts of the department as officers work with partners in the community to identify and solve problems.
What Stillwater does
The Stillwater Police Department polices Stillwater, Oklahoma - a college town, home to Oklahoma State University - from 723 South Lewis, in the east wing of the Municipal Building the department occupied until 2001. It runs 80 sworn officers and 45 civilian support employees providing round-the-clock police services, with the Patrol Division, the Central Communications Division and the Detention Center all operating 24/7 alongside a Training Division. Its stated mission is to protect life, liberty and property and preserve the peace in the City of Stillwater. New officers attend a non-residential academy of roughly 27 weeks and are paid employees throughout.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 20 September 2026. City of Stillwater, Join the Stillwater Police Department: "Starting Salary Range: $59, 446.40- $63,003.20 (based on experience)" — open the source document
$59,446.40 is the bottom of the City's own published starting band and no arithmetic has been applied to it. The band is expressly qualified 'based on experience', which is what fixes the bottom as the no-experience rate rather than a range minimum floating free of any step. Trainee class: NOT PRICED - the City names no separate cadet, recruit or academy wage and states instead that applicants are paid employees while attending the academy, which runs approximately 27 weeks and is non-residential, so the same starting band covers the academy year. Prior sworn service is therefore not required. $63,003.20 is the top of the starting band and is a ceiling on the entry placement, not a step. THE FIGURE CARRIES NO EFFECTIVE DATE. NEXT DOCUMENT: the City of Stillwater pay plan or the annual budget, either of which would date this band; the City posts numbered job bulletins (82-26 Police Officer) that may also 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 Stillwater 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. Stillwater starts at $59,446, so $8,694 below the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Stillwater Police Department officer make?
Stillwater Police Department starts a new officer on $59,446 a year, about $28.58 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 City of Stillwater, Join the Stillwater Police Department: "Starting Salary Range: $59, 446.40- $63,003.20 (based on experience)".
Is that good pay for a police officer in Oklahoma?
It ranks #10 of 22 agencies we have verified in Oklahoma — 12 pay less, 9 pay more in the state — and #1,608 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $7,238 below, and against other municipal agencies $8,694 below.
Compare with another department
Put Stillwater 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 OK
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Stillwater | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broken Arrow Police Department | Municipal | 168 | $72,004 | +$12,558 | #812 |
| 2 | Moore Police Department | Municipal | 107 | $70,796 | +$11,349 | #896 |
| 3 | Edmond Police Department | Municipal | 126 | $68,481 | +$9,035 | #1,020 |
| 4 | Oklahoma Highway Patrol | State | 789 | $67,900 | +$8,453 | #1,064 |
| 5 | Oklahoma City Police Department | Municipal | 1,108 | $67,735 | +$8,288 | #1,072 |
| 6 | Yukon Police Department | Municipal | 53 | $63,058 | +$3,612 | #1,380 |
| 7 | Norman Police Department | Municipal | 177 | $61,000 | +$1,554 | #1,503 |
| 8 | Tulsa Police Department | Municipal | 836 | $60,611 | +$1,165 | #1,527 |
| 9 | Tulsa County Sheriff's Office | County | 223 | $60,000 | +$554 | #1,573 |
| 11 | Owasso Police Department | Municipal | 66 | $59,398 | −$48 | #1,609 |
| 12 | Bartlesville Police Department | Municipal | 76 | $57,450 | −$1,997 | #1,733 |
| 13 | Enid Police Department | Municipal | 96 | $56,243 | −$3,203 | #1,787 |
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