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Turlock 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.
Turlock Police Department starts at $83,424 a year — about $40.11 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $16,739 above the median of the 2,288 agencies on this list, and $15,284 above the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in California run about 11% above the national average, so this is worth roughly $75,347 somewhere at average prices — $8,077 less than the headline figure. Most of that is utilities, at 159 against a national average of 100, where goods are 106. 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 isTurlock Police Department reported 84 sworn officers and 53 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 1.1 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 72,919.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 Turlock says about itself
As dedicated public servants we will strive: For the continual pursuit of justice; For fair and equal application of the law; To treat all persons with dignity and respect, and conduct ourselves in accordance with the Law Enforcement Code of Ethics; For innovative and effective management of our resources; To create and maintain an atmosphere that encourages community input, participation, and partnerships.
What Turlock does
The Turlock Police Department serves the city of Turlock, California, in Stanislaus County. Its sworn officers are represented by the Turlock Associated Police Officers, whose monthly salary schedule the City publishes as its CalPERS publicly available pay schedule on a separate document from the Police Officer Trainee schedule, so the pre-academy class and the sworn class never share a table. The sworn ladder runs Police Officer I, Police Officer II, Police Detective and Police Sergeant, with each rank's range overlapping the one below it by three steps.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 21 September 2026. City of Turlock, TAPO Monthly Salary Schedule, Fiscal Year 2026-2027 — Police Officer I, range 23,7, Step 1: 6952 monthly. — open the source document
$6,952 a month is the City's own published Step 1 rate for Police Officer I on the Turlock Associated Police Officers schedule, and the City states its own unit: "City of Turlock employees are paid on a biweekly basis. The salary schedule shows the monthly salaries." $83,424.00 is that monthly rate times twelve, which is exact rather than an estimate. THE SCHEDULE IS A SCANNED DOCUMENT AND WAS READ IN A BROWSER, not inferred, and the column reading was CHECKED AGAINST THE SCHEDULE'S OWN ARITHMETIC: Police Officer I runs 6952 / 7299 / 7664 / 8047 / 8450 across five steps and Police Officer II opens at 8047, which is Police Officer I's step 4 to the dollar, so the ranges overlap by exactly three steps and the Step 1 column is identified beyond doubt. THE TRAINEE CLASS IS ON A DIFFERENT SCHEDULE ENTIRELY, which is what makes this clean: Turlock publishes a separate Police Officer Trainee schedule as document id 28, distinct from the sworn TAPO schedule id 9, so there is no cadet rate mixed into this table to reject. THE FIGURE IS DATED BY THE SCHEDULE ITSELF, Fiscal Year 2026-2027.
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 Turlock 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. Turlock starts at $83,424, so $15,284 above the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Turlock Police Department officer make?
Turlock Police Department starts a new officer on $83,424 a year, about $40.11 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 Turlock, TAPO Monthly Salary Schedule, Fiscal Year 2026-2027 — Police Officer I, range 23,7, Step 1: 6952 monthly..
Is that good pay for a police officer in California?
It ranks #216 of 278 agencies we have verified in California — 62 pay less, 215 pay more in the state — and #394 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $16,739 above, and against other municipal agencies $15,284 above.
Compare with another department
Put Turlock 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 CA
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Turlock | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Santa Clara Police Department | Municipal | 141 | $163,619 | +$80,195 | #1 |
| 2 | Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety | Municipal | 227 | $149,443 | +$66,019 | #2 |
| 3 | Redwood City Police Department | Municipal | 83 | $147,942 | +$64,518 | #3 |
| 4 | San Jose Police Department | Municipal | 1,065 | $144,003 | +$60,579 | #4 |
| 5 | Mountain View Police Department | Municipal | 90 | $143,096 | +$59,672 | #5 |
| 6 | San Mateo Police Department | Municipal | 111 | $141,024 | +$57,600 | #6 |
| 7 | Los Altos Police Department | Municipal | 31 | $139,740 | +$56,316 | #7 |
| 8 | Hayward Police Department | Municipal | 171 | $138,965 | +$55,541 | #8 |
| 9 | Milpitas Police Department | Municipal | 84 | $138,261 | +$54,837 | #9 |
| 10 | Los Gatos Police Department | Municipal | 34 | $132,394 | +$48,970 | #10 |
| 11 | Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office | County | 1,071 | $132,263 | +$48,839 | #11 |
| 12 | Menlo Park Police Department | Municipal | 43 | $132,036 | +$48,612 | #12 |
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