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Territorial police salary
What a brand-new officer earns on day one. The police forces of the five US territories — Puerto Rico, Guam, the US Virgin Islands, American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands — island-wide and municipal forces alike, ranked by what each starts an officer 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.
9agencies verifiedacross 5 territories
Starting salary a year, base pay only. Every figure comes from an official source.
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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- 1Puerto Rico Police Bureau#$43,354a year to start
- 2Virgin Islands Police Department#$40,953a year to start
- 3Guam Police Department#$36,588a year to start
- 4San Juan Municipal Police#$32,820a year to start644sworn authorized2024
- 5Caguas Municipal Police#$28,236a year to start108sworn authorized2024
- 6San Lorenzo Municipal Police#$25,200a year to start15sworn authorized2024
- 7Coamo Municipal Police#$24,000a year to start15sworn authorized2024
- 8Northern Mariana Islands Department of Public Safety#$21,219a year to start
- 9American Samoa Department of Public Safety#$16,640a year to start
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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 police officers make?
On this list of verified agencies, entry pay runs from $16,640 to $43,354 a year, with a median of $28,236. 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?
Puerto Rico Police Bureau in PR at $43,354. The lowest on this list is American Samoa Department of Public Safety at $16,640.
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, 9 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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