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Twin Falls 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.
Twin Falls Police Department starts at $57,832 a year — about $27.80 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $10,558 below the median of the 1,681 agencies on this list, and $13,432 below the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Twin Falls, ID * run about 8% below the national average, so this goes about as far as $62,788 would somewhere at average prices — $4,955 more than the headline figure. Most of that is utilities, at 70 against a national average of 100, where goods are 96. Based on price levels for this metropolitan 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 isTwin Falls Police Department reported 78 sworn officers and 40 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 1.4 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 56,494.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 Twin Falls says about itself
The mission of the Twin Falls Police Department is: To provide excellent customer service, professional law enforcement and effective crime prevention for a safe community.
What Twin Falls does
The Twin Falls Police Department states that it has protected, defended, and served the community for more than 100 years and describes itself as a professional, service-oriented organization with more than 100 employees. Its mission is to provide excellent customer service, professional law enforcement, and effective crime prevention for a safe community.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 14 August 2026. City of Twin Falls / Twin Falls Police Department — Police Officer — PO Intro +5% — open the source document
Sworn Officer Salary Table — December 14 Implementation Date | Class: Police Officer — PO Intro +5% | Post-academy: yes — PO Intro is the first published sworn-officer tier; progression is tied to ride-alone completion and later years of service | Reopened official one-page sworn salary table publishes PO Intro +5% at $26.48/hour and expressly states 2,184 hours per year. Exact annualization is $57,832.32. Submitted $58,884.80 is not supported by this official table.
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 Twin Falls 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 | $35,006 | $71,287 | $163,619 | 1046 |
| County | $36,492 | $65,374 | $132,263 | 416 |
| Special jurisdiction | $31,200 | $60,195 | $107,954 | 69 |
| State | $33,994 | $64,998 | $102,692 | 143 |
| 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 $2,200 more than the middle municipal agency and about $8,100 more than the middle county agency and about $13,300 more than the middle special jurisdiction agency and about $8,500 more than the middle state agency and about $45,300 more than the middle territory agency. Twin Falls starts at $57,832, so $13,455 below the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Twin Falls Police Department officer make?
Twin Falls Police Department starts a new officer on $57,832 a year, about $27.80 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 Twin Falls / Twin Falls Police Department — Police Officer — PO Intro +5%.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Idaho?
It ranks #19 of 51 agencies we have verified in Idaho — 32 pay less, 18 pay more in the state — and #1,335 of 1,681 nationally. Against the national median it is $10,558 below, and against other municipal agencies $13,432 below.
Compare with another department
Put Twin Falls 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 ID
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Twin | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sun Valley Police Department | Municipal | — | $75,005 | +$17,172 | #558 |
| 2 | Blaine County Sheriff's Office | County | 20 | $74,526 | +$16,694 | #577 |
| 3 | Boise Police Department | Municipal | 326 | $69,514 | +$11,681 | #791 |
| 4 | Meridian Police Department | Municipal | 109 | $67,621 | +$9,788 | #885 |
| 5 | Post Falls Police Department | Municipal | 52 | $67,330 | +$9,497 | #904 |
| 6 | Coeur d'Alene Police Department | Municipal | 94 | $66,872 | +$9,040 | #925 |
| 7 | Kootenai County Sheriff's Office | County | 104 | $65,291 | +$7,459 | #1,006 |
| 8 | Ada County Sheriff's Office | County | 220 | $64,896 | +$7,064 | #1,030 |
| 9 | McCall Police Department | Municipal | 12 | $63,773 | +$5,940 | #1,069 |
| 10 | Moscow Police Department | Municipal | 30 | $63,544 | +$5,712 | #1,079 |
| 11 | Lewiston Police Department | Municipal | 46 | $63,321 | +$5,488 | #1,094 |
| 12 | Idaho State Police | State | 311 | $62,546 | +$4,713 | #1,128 |
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