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Compare two police departments
Put any two agencies side by side — what each publishes, and what it is worth once the cost of living where the job is has been counted.
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.
Cost of living counted separatelyAn adjusted figure is what the published salary is worth at national prices. It is our arithmetic on the employer’s number, not a second salary, and no ranking on this site uses it.Price levels are the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis Regional Price Parities, 2024.
Start typing in both boxes — a department, a county, a state, or an abbreviation such as FHP or LASD.
Salaries are what each employer publishes, verified one agency at a time. Price levels are the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis Regional Price Parities for 2024 — by metropolitan area where the agency is in one, by the rural part of the state where it is not, and by state average where we cannot tell. Each card says which. The adjusted figure is our arithmetic on the published salary, and no ranking on this site uses it.
Your shifts and your off-duty work, on one calendar
Save the rotation your agency runs and the year fills itself in. The off-duty jobs you take go in beside it, with what each one paid.
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