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Tillamook County Sheriff's Office 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.
Tillamook County Sheriff's Office starts at $67,308 a year — about $32.36 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $623 above the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $3,748 above the median for county agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Oregon run about 3% above the national average, so this is worth roughly $65,119 somewhere at average prices — $2,189 less than the headline figure. Most of that is rent, at 109 against a national average of 100, where goods are 105. 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 isTillamook County Sheriff's Office reported 45 sworn officers and 6 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025.No rate is shown: this agency does not police a single population the FBI publishes a figure for. 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 Tillamook County says about itself
The Sheriff's duty is to maintain peace within the county, and as an elected official the Sheriff is accountable to the people of Tillamook County.
What Tillamook County does
The Tillamook County Sheriff's Office polices the unincorporated Oregon coast from Tillamook and runs the county jail, community corrections, civil process, courthouse security and search and rescue on land and water, backing the municipal police departments in the county's towns. Its deputies are represented by Teamsters Local 223 on a ten-step table whose steps are three per cent apart, with no trainee or recruit class beneath them and with criminal, corrections and parole deputies all priced on the same range. Since January 2025 the County grosses new hires' base wages up by six per cent to cover the required PERS employee contribution, and publishes that as a separate schedule.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 21 September 2026. Tillamook County Pay Tables, Fiscal Year 2026-2027, "Effective July 1, 2026", "2080 yearly base hours", Teamsters Local 223 — the PERS/OPSRP block at range TA: "Criminal Deputy $5,609 $5,778 $5,951 ... Monthly", Step 1 of ten. — open the source document
$67,308.00 is the County's Step 1 monthly figure for Criminal Deputy, $5,609, at twelve months. The table states its own hours basis - "2080 yearly base hours" - so nothing is assumed, and it cross-checks: the same range TA prints Parole and Probation Deputy as an ANNUAL of $67,311, three dollars apart on rounding alone. THE TABLE CARRIES TWO RATE SETS FOR EVERY RANGE AND THE CONTRACT SAYS WHICH ONE A NEW DEPUTY IS PAID ON. The pay table prints range TA twice - once at $5,292 a month and once, labelled PERS/OPSRP, at $5,609 - with no legend explaining the difference, and the gap is 5.99 per cent. The Teamsters Local 223 agreement settles it in two places: "The salary of new hires employed on or after January 1, 2025, will be grossed up by six percent (6%) to reflect their required contribution to PERS", and "The County shall gross up newly hired employees' base wages by six percent (6%) to compensate for the required PERS employee contribution." So the PERS/OPSRP block is the new-hire schedule and the lower block is not. Publishing $5,292 would have understated every deputy hired since 2025. THE STEPS ABOVE ARE TIME, NOT CERTIFICATION: the agreement states "Steps are three percent (3%) apart". THERE IS NO TRAINEE, RECRUIT OR CADET CLASS on the Teamsters table, and the three sworn titles at range TA - Corrections Deputy, Criminal Deputy and Parole and Probation Deputy - are the same money displayed in three different units, hourly, monthly and annual respectively, so no patrol-versus-custody choice arises. Excluded from the figure: the nine steps above, topping out at $7,319 a month; the six per cent longevity premium the agreement adds separately; the Teamsters Sergeants table; and the Corrections Technician and Records Clerk ranges.
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 Tillamook 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.
| 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. Tillamook County starts at $67,308, so $3,743 above the county middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Tillamook County Sheriff's Office officer make?
Tillamook County Sheriff's Office starts a new officer on $67,308 a year, about $32.36 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 Tillamook County Pay Tables, Fiscal Year 2026-2027, "Effective July 1, 2026", "2080 yearly base hours", Teamsters Local 223 — the PERS/OPSRP block at range TA: "Criminal Deputy $5,609 $5,778 $5,951 ... Monthly", Step 1 of ten..
Is that good pay for a police officer in Oregon?
It ranks #40 of 53 agencies we have verified in Oregon — 13 pay less, 39 pay more in the state — and #1,108 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $623 above, and against other county agencies $3,748 above.
Compare with another department
Put Tillamook County Sheriff's Office 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 OR
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Tillamook | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tigard Police Department | Municipal | 71 | $86,596 | +$19,288 | #329 |
| 2 | Bend Police Department | Municipal | 107 | $86,432 | +$19,124 | #331 |
| 3 | Washington County Sheriff's Office | County | 219 | $85,738 | +$18,430 | #340 |
| 4 | Gresham Police Department | Municipal | 123 | $84,968 | +$17,660 | #354 |
| 5 | Portland Police Bureau | Municipal | 809 | $84,000 | +$16,692 | #373 |
| 6 | Hillsboro Police Department | Municipal | 144 | $83,988 | +$16,680 | #376 |
| 7 | Clackamas County Sheriff's Office | County | 204 | $83,053 | +$15,745 | #402 |
| 8 | Corvallis Police Department | Municipal | 67 | $82,747 | +$15,439 | #412 |
| 9 | Lane County Sheriff's Office | County | 75 | $82,181 | +$14,873 | #423 |
| 10 | Multnomah County Sheriff's Office | County | 132 | $82,035 | +$14,727 | #427 |
| 11 | Tualatin Police Department | Municipal | 38 | $81,973 | +$14,665 | #428 |
| 12 | Oregon City Police Department | Municipal | 38 | $81,564 | +$14,256 | #438 |
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