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Westbrook 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.
Westbrook Police Department starts at $73,736 a year — about $35.45 an hour on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime. That is $5,346 above the median of the 1,681 agencies on this list, and $2,472 above the median for municipal agencies.
Cost of livingPrices in Maine run about 3% below the national average, so this goes about as far as $75,977 would somewhere at average prices — $2,241 more than the headline figure. That average hides a wide spread: utilities at 135, where goods are 97. 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 isWestbrook Police Department reported 47 sworn officers and 5 civilian staff to the FBI for 2025. That is 2.2 officers per 1,000 residents, over a population of 21,633.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 Westbrook says about itself
Our mission is to protect and serve the Westbrook community with integrity, respect, and professionalism. We are committed to safeguarding lives and property, reducing crime, and fostering a sense of safety.
What Westbrook does
Westbrook Police Department has 48 sworn officers and 6 civilian employees covering the city 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and is accredited through the Maine Law Enforcement Accreditation Program. It runs two divisions — Investigative and Support Services, and Operations — each under a captain, with a patrol division of 16 officers, 6 corporals and 6 sergeants, and assigns officers to the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency and the FBI Southern Maine Gang Task Force. A system of night watchmen and constables kept order from 1814 until the department was established by city ordinance in 1891
Westbrook’s rotation, in BlueShifts
Westbrook officers work a four days on, three days off schedule of ten-hour shifts.
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September 2026
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Where the figure comes from
Checked 15 August 2026. City of Westbrook — Careers, police officer pay scale — open the source document
Westbrook starts a police officer at $35.45 an hour, $73,736 a year at 2,080 hours, on a scale the City publishes with its vacancies. Officers work four days on and three days off on ten-hour shifts. The department offers a twenty-year, no-age pension through the Maine Public Employees Retirement System with annual cost of living adjustments, and stipends for specialty assignments, education, military service, foreign language and physical fitness, which are added to the base rate. Transfer candidates are placed on the scale at the step matching their years of full-time law enforcement experience, with no cap on years credited.
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 Westbrook 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. Westbrook starts at $73,736, so $2,449 above the municipal middle.
How it ranks
Common questions
How much does a Westbrook Police Department officer make?
Westbrook Police Department starts a new officer on $73,736 a year, about $35.45 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 Westbrook — Careers, police officer pay scale.
Is that good pay for a police officer in Maine?
It ranks #3 of 19 agencies we have verified in Maine — 16 pay less, 2 pay more in the state — and #604 of 1,681 nationally. Against the national median it is $5,346 above, and against other municipal agencies $2,472 above.
What shifts do Westbrook Police Department officers work?
Westbrook officers work a four days on, three days off schedule of ten-hour shifts. That is the agency's own published wording; the pattern is drawn on this page.
Compare with another department
Put Westbrook 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 ME
| # | Agency | Level | Sworn # | Entry pay | Vs Westbrook | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rockland Police Department | Municipal | 19 | $77,896 | +$4,160 | #459 |
| 2 | Biddeford Police Department | Municipal | 45 | $76,482 | +$2,746 | #494 |
| 4 | Falmouth Police Department | Municipal | 19 | $71,344 | −$2,392 | #704 |
| 5 | Bath Police Department | Municipal | 18 | $71,011 | −$2,725 | #721 |
| 6 | York County Sheriff's Office | County | 23 | $70,628 | −$3,108 | #741 |
| 7 | Freeport Police Department | Municipal | 17 | $69,306 | −$4,430 | #798 |
| 8 | Windham Police Department | Municipal | 28 | $69,251 | −$4,485 | #802 |
| 9 | Bangor Police Department | Municipal | 82 | $69,181 | −$4,555 | #803 |
| 10 | Auburn Police Department | Municipal | 51 | $69,000 | −$4,736 | #815 |
| 11 | Augusta Police Department | Municipal | 44 | $67,371 | −$6,365 | #901 |
| 12 | Portland Police Department | Municipal | 131 | $65,874 | −$7,862 | #973 |
| 13 | Lewiston Police Department | Municipal | 78 | $65,624 | −$8,112 | #986 |
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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