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Deputy sheriff salary

What a brand-new deputy earns on day one. The sheriff's offices that start new deputies highest, ranked. Base pay only: no overtime, no shift differential, no specialty or education pay. Every figure comes from an official source.

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.

416agencies verifiedacross 45 states

Lowest$36,492
Middle$65,374
Highest$132,263

Starting salary a year, base pay only. Every figure comes from an official source.

99,976sworn officersFBI-reported, 390 agencies

Active is the number of sworn officers an agency reported to the FBI for 2025. Authorized is the establishment its own staffing document funds. Where both are known, the badge shows active first.

Highest starting pay at each level

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Figures checked between 8 August 2026 and 23 August 2026. Every figure comes from an official source — the employer's own published pay information. Overtime, bonuses, education incentives, shift differentials, locality pay and lateral rates are excluded — this is base salary only, so most officers earn more than the figure shown. Where an agency publishes both an academy rate and a post-academy rate, the post-academy rate is used. Pay is not comparable between places without cost of living: $55,000 in Honolulu and $55,000 in rural Virginia are not the same offer. More agencies are added as each one is verified, so an agency missing here has not been checked yet rather than found to pay less.

Common questions

How much do deputy sheriffs make?

On this list of verified agencies, entry pay runs from $36,492 to $132,263 a year, with a median of $65,374. That is base salary only — overtime, court time, shift differentials and off-duty work are excluded, so most officers earn more than the figure shown.

Which state pays the most?

Of the 27 states where we have verified five or more agencies, CA has the highest median at $85,250, and ID the lowest at $49,920 — a gap of $35,330 a year for recognisably the same job.

Which agency pays the most to start?

Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office in CA at $132,263. The lowest on this list is Latah County Sheriff's Office at $36,492.

Where do these figures come from?

Every one comes from the employer's own published source — a class specification, a civil service posting or an agency careers page — not from a salary estimate site. Each row links to the document it came from.

Is this every agency in the country?

No. These are the highest-paying agencies we have verified, 416 of them so far, not a random sample. An agency missing here has not been checked yet rather than found to pay less, and the medians on this page therefore sit above a true national average.

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