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Police Officer Salary 2026 — Pension Add-Back, Federal vs State vs City, by State

Pension actuarial value (BLS excludes) + court / detail / off-duty income breakdown + federal LE (33-3052) vs state trooper vs city PD vs sheriff comparison + state real wage

By DeepComps Lab · Editorial BEA RPP · 2024 P10–P90 across 51 states
TL;DR — Police Officer Salary national + state, real-wage adjusted
National distribution where the spread is

Where the spread is.

FIG. 02 · National distribution · SOC 33-3051 n = $666,990 workers
P50 $76,290
$47,640P10 P25 $58,980 P75 $97,190 P90$115,280
The amber band is the 10th-to-90th percentile. The thicker inner band is the central half — half of all Police Officers in the federal sample earn between $58,980 and $97,190 in nominal W-2 wages.
State-by-state — ranked by real P50 P50 wage from BLS OEWS · real wage divides nominal by state RPP

The same job, fifty-one wages.

Sorted by real P50 descending. Real wage is the BLS nominal P50 divided by the state's BEA RPP — the dollar that buys the same basket as the national average. Each row links to the full state page.

Rank ST State Real P50 Nom. P50 Distribution P10–P90 RPP Emp
01 CA California $102,857▼11% $115,400 112.2 65K
02 IL Illinois $102,813▲1% $101,530 98.8 30K
03 AK Alaska $97,099▼3% $100,300 103.3 1K
04 WA Washington $94,713▼8% $102,640 108.4 8K
05 CO Colorado $94,349▼2% $96,100 101.9 9K
06 PA Pennsylvania $88,655▲3% $86,350 97.4 24K
07 NY New York $86,284▼7% $93,050 107.8 54K
08 ND North Dakota $85,660▲13% $75,530 88.2 2K
· · · · · 38 states omitted · · · · ·
47 AL Alabama $60,440▲12% $53,850 89.1 12K
48 GA Georgia $58,397▲4% $56,350 96.5 22K
49 LA Louisiana $57,024▲13% $50,580 88.7 14K
50 AR Arkansas $55,397▲15% $48,090 86.8 5K
51 MS Mississippi $52,551▲15% $45,610 86.8 8K
RPP source: BEA Regional Price Parities, 2023 release. P10–P90 from BLS OEWS May 2024. Real P50 = Nominal P50 × (100 / RPP)
All 51 state pages P10–P90 + RPP per state
Real P50 (BLS ÷ RPP)
Top 20% $93K+
60–80% $83K
40–60% $73K
20–40% $63K
Bottom 20% $53K
Each tile shows the BLS OEWS P50 wage divided by that state's BEA Regional Price Parity (real take-home, normalized to US-100). Darker amber = higher real wage. Click any tile for the full state page with P10–P90 percentiles, RPP, and rank. Source: BLS OEWS May 2024 + BEA RPP 2023.
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