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Utica 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.
Utica Police Department starts at $57,695 a year — about $27.74 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $10,695 below the median of the 1,681 agencies on this list, and $13,569 below the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Utica-Rome, NY run about 7% below the national average, so this goes about as far as $62,253 would somewhere at average prices — $4,558 more than the headline figure. Most of that is rent, at 66 against a national average of 100, where goods are 100. 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 isUtica Police Department reported 152 sworn officers and 15 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 2.4 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 63,288.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 Utica says about itself
The Utica Police Department, in partnership with the community, endeavors to provide impartial, ethical, and professional law enforcement service and protection. DESCRIPTION: The Utica Police Department provides impartial, ethical and professional law-enforcement service and protection in partnership with the community, safeguards lives and property, respects constitutional rights and works to improve quality of life.
What Utica does
Utica Police Department, in partnership with the community, provides impartial, ethical and professional law-enforcement service.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 10 August 2026. Utica Municipal Civil Service Commission 2026 Police Officer examination notice — open the source document
Their source is effective 10 August 2026.
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.
How this level compares
Where Utica 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. Utica starts at $57,695, so $13,592 below the municipal middle.
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How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Utica Police Department officer make?
Utica Police Department starts a new officer on $57,695 a year, about $27.74 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 Utica Municipal Civil Service Commission 2026 Police Officer examination notice.
Is that good pay for a police officer in New York?
It ranks #17 of 23 agencies we have verified in New York — 6 pay less, 16 pay more in the state — and #1,350 of 1,681 nationally. Against the national median it is $10,695 below, and against other municipal agencies $13,569 below.
Compare with another department
Put Utica 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 NY
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Utica | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New York State Department of Financial Services — Investigations | State | — | $86,681 | +$28,986 | #269 |
| 2 | New York State Police | State | 5,373 | $85,292 | +$27,597 | #288 |
| 3 | New York State Park Police | State | 269 | $73,796 | +$16,101 | #602 |
| 4 | Onondaga County Sheriff's Office | County | 217 | $71,764 | +$14,069 | #681 |
| 5 | Yonkers Police Department | Municipal | 625 | $70,229 | +$12,534 | #755 |
| 6 | Erie County Sheriff's Office | County | 175 | $69,274 | +$11,579 | #800 |
| 7 | Livingston County Sheriff's Office | County | 66 | $67,808 | +$10,113 | #871 |
| 8 | New York State Department of Environmental Conservation — Forest Rangers | State | — | $67,796 | +$10,101 | #872 |
| 9 | Yates County Sheriff's Office | County | 27 | $66,389 | +$8,694 | #956 |
| 10 | Albany Police Department | Municipal | 269 | $65,066 | +$7,371 | #1,017 |
| 11 | Rochester Police Department | Municipal | 622 | $63,812 | +$6,117 | #1,068 |
| 12 | Nassau County Sheriff's Department | County | 2,591 | $62,657 | +$4,962 | #1,123 |
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