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Uvalde 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.
Uvalde Police Department starts at $54,579 a year — about $26.24 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $13,811 below the median of the 1,681 agencies on this list, and $16,685 below the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Texas run about 3% below the national average, so this goes about as far as $56,234 would somewhere at average prices — $1,655 more than the headline figure. That average hides a wide spread: utilities at 88, where goods are 98. 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.
About Uvalde
Uvalde Police Department is a small South Texas municipal agency running patrol, criminal investigations, traffic and records units, and fields a CARES Team that pairs crisis-intervention-trained officers with a dedicated investigator and mental health specialists to respond to behavioural health emergencies, focusing on de-escalation and connecting families to local treatment and prevention services
Uvalde’s rotation, in BlueShifts
The city's Patrol Officer posting states the work schedule outright: 12-hour work shifts on a Panama schedule, subject to the Department Head's discretion.
The rotation template screen — enter the cycle and the start date, and you are done.
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Every month, already filled in — no typing, however far ahead you look.
September 2026
This cycle has its own page: how it works, and how to build it.
Uvalde publishes the days on and off but not which are days and which are nights. In BlueShifts you choose that yourself — every shift can be a day, a night or a 24-hour tour, and the calendar marks it with a sun, a moon or a clock.
A Panama gives you a different set of days off every fortnight, so the shape of your month is never the one you just worked. BlueShifts holds the 2-3-2 once and lays out every month ahead, and the officers who need a 45-minute response time can share the pattern with the people at home.
Where the figure comes from
Checked 20 August 2026. City of Uvalde — Patrol Officer posting, opened 1 June 2026 — open the source document
City of Uvalde's own Patrol Officer job posting, opened 1 June 2026 and open until filled: $26.24 an hour / $54,579.20 a year, full time, non-exempt. No prior service is required, and this is not a lateral rate: the posting sets the requirements as a high school diploma plus twelve college hours and a Basic Peace Officer License from TCOLE, with no prior service required, and names no experience-based rate. Certification is not experience.
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 Uvalde 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. Uvalde starts at $54,579, so $16,708 below the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Uvalde Police Department officer make?
Uvalde Police Department starts a new officer on $54,579 a year, about $26.24 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 Uvalde — Patrol Officer posting, opened 1 June 2026.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Texas?
It ranks #127 of 140 agencies we have verified in Texas — 13 pay less, 126 pay more in the state — and #1,450 of 1,681 nationally. Against the national median it is $13,811 below, and against other municipal agencies $16,685 below.
What shifts do Uvalde Police Department officers work?
The city's Patrol Officer posting states the work schedule outright: 12-hour work shifts on a Panama schedule, subject to the Department Head's discretion. That is the agency's own published wording; the pattern is drawn on this page.
Compare with another department
Put Uvalde 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 TX
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Uvalde | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Allen Police Department | Municipal | 153 | $91,106 | +$36,527 | #192 |
| 2 | Frisco Police Department | Municipal | 270 | $90,750 | +$36,171 | #200 |
| 3 | Plano Police Department | Municipal | 414 | $90,729 | +$36,150 | #201 |
| 4 | Grand Prairie Police Department | Municipal | 287 | $90,000 | +$35,421 | #216 |
| 5 | Hurst Police Department | Municipal | — | $87,048 | +$32,469 | #264 |
| 6 | Lewisville Police Department | Municipal | 181 | $86,268 | +$31,689 | #276 |
| 7 | Coppell Police Department | Municipal | 60 | $84,968 | +$30,389 | #293 |
| 8 | Rockwall Police Department | Municipal | 95 | $84,448 | +$29,869 | #300 |
| 9 | The Colony Police Department | Municipal | — | $84,082 | +$29,503 | #306 |
| 10 | Baytown Police Department | Municipal | — | $84,049 | +$29,470 | #307 |
| 11 | McKinney Police Department | Municipal | 248 | $83,992 | +$29,413 | #309 |
| 12 | Mesquite Police Department | Municipal | 260 | $83,869 | +$29,289 | #312 |
Base pay is only part of the year
Whatever the figure above, the rotation is what decides your year — which weekends you lose, when the changeovers land, what you can plan around. Save yours once and BlueShifts shows it a year ahead, with the off-duty jobs you take and what each one paid.
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