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State trooper salary
What a brand-new trooper earns on day one. Every state police, state patrol and highway patrol agency in the country — all of them, not a selection — ranked by what each starts a trooper on. 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.
49agencies verifiedacross 49 states
Starting salary a year, base pay only. Every figure comes from an official source.
50,713sworn officersFBI-reported, 40 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.
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- 1Alaska State Troopers#$97,365a year to start363sworn active2025
- 2Washington State Patrol#$93,156a year to start971sworn active2025
/930sworn authorized2024 - 3Colorado State Patrol#$91,620a year to start706sworn active2025
- 4Delaware State Police#$91,265a year to start783sworn active2025
- 5Illinois State Police#$90,828a year to start1,821sworn active2025
/1,846sworn authorized2022 - 6California Highway Patrol#$88,548a year to start7,168sworn active2025
/9,500sworn authorized2026 - 7New York State Police#$85,292a year to start5,373sworn active2025
- 8Rhode Island State Police#$81,579a year to start267sworn active2025
- 9Massachusetts State Police#$80,213a year to start2,565sworn active2025
- 10Oregon State Police#$77,064a year to start757sworn active2025
- 11Minnesota State Patrol#$76,835a year to start513sworn active2025
- 12Utah Highway Patrol#$75,878a year to start536sworn active2025
- 13Connecticut State Police#$75,367a year to start955sworn active2025
- 14North Dakota Highway Patrol#$73,332a year to start165sworn active2025
- 15Pennsylvania State Police#$73,087a year to start4,634sworn active2025
/4,841sworn authorized2026 - 16Ohio State Highway Patrol#$72,010a year to start1,382sworn active2025
- 17Vermont State Police#$71,947a year to start256sworn active2025
- 18Montana Highway Patrol#$71,240a year to start225sworn active2025
- 19New Mexico State Police#$70,845a year to start1,174sworn active2025
- 20Nebraska State Patrol#$70,195a year to start410sworn active2025
- 21Indiana State Police#$70,000a year to start1,171sworn active2025
- 22Maryland State Police#$69,360a year to start1,434sworn active2025
- 23Wyoming Highway Patrol#$68,619a year to start194sworn active2025
- 24Kansas Highway Patrol#$68,182a year to start467sworn active2025
- 25Nevada State Police — Highway Patrol#$67,939a year to start
- 26Oklahoma Highway Patrol#$67,900a year to start789sworn active2025
- 27Arkansas State Police#$67,675a year to start
- 28Wisconsin State Patrol#$67,454a year to start445sworn active2025
- 29New Hampshire State Police#$66,872a year to start350sworn active2025
- 30Tennessee Highway Patrol#$65,804a year to start
- 31Arizona Department of Public Safety — Highway Patrol Division#$65,400a year to start
- 32Missouri State Highway Patrol#$65,400a year to start1,134sworn active2025
- 33Maine State Police#$65,166a year to start335sworn active2025
- 34Kentucky State Police#$64,998a year to start1,078sworn active2025
- 35New Jersey State Police#$64,956a year to start3,351sworn active2025
- 36South Dakota Highway Patrol#$64,251a year to start150sworn active2025
- 37Georgia State Patrol#$63,684a year to start
- 38North Carolina State Highway Patrol#$63,250a year to start
- 39Idaho State Police#$62,546a year to start311sworn active2025
- 40Michigan State Police#$61,901a year to start1,771sworn active2025
- 41South Carolina Highway Patrol#$60,761a year to start1,004sworn active2025
- 42Iowa State Patrol#$60,632a year to start
- 43Florida Highway Patrol#$60,000a year to start1,813sworn active2025
/1,982sworn authorized2025 - 44Virginia State Police#$60,000a year to start1,863sworn active2025
- 45Louisiana State Police#$57,680a year to start1,192sworn active2025
/1,100+sworn authorized2025 - 46Alabama Highway Patrol#$56,726a year to start
- 47Texas Highway Patrol#$55,441a year to start
- 48Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol#$54,000a year to start397sworn active2025
- 49West Virginia State Police#$45,784a year to start440sworn active2025
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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 state troopers make?
On this list of verified agencies, entry pay runs from $45,784 to $97,365 a year, with a median of $67,939. 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?
Not enough states have five or more verified agencies.
Which agency pays the most to start?
Alaska State Troopers in AK at $97,365. The lowest on this list is West Virginia State Police at $45,784.
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, 49 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.
A trooper's year is not a nine-to-five
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