Johnson County, Kansas / Johnson / Criminal Investigator III
Job-title file
Inspect and investigate for compliance with regulations, document findings, and recommend action.
1 employees hold this title in Johnson. Median total compensation for the role is $845, below the department median of $67,585.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the Kansas City, MO-KS area, the median wage for Detectives and Criminal Investigators — about 850 people — is $91,490. Johnson pays a median base salary of $75,686 for this role, 17% below that figure — about the 34th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Detectives and Criminal Investigators across every employer in the Kansas City, MO-KS area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Johnson’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Detectives and Criminal Investigators — about 114,430 people — is $93,790. Johnson’s median base salary is 19% below that national figure, about the 31st percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the Kansas City, MO-KS range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 9 of 10 people in this role paid at least $25,000 in base salary. The rest are part-year or part-time records, whose actual pay isn’t comparable to a full-time annual wage.
Median total compensation for this role at Johnson is $75,119, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.
Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 4 jurisdictions. In Johnson County, Kansas, the median of $75,119 ranks #2 of 4. See Criminal Investigator across all of Johnson County, Kansas →
Median total compensation for comparable Criminal Investigator roles in other jurisdictions. Titles are matched by normalized name across sources, not identical job classification, and pay is not cost-of-living adjusted. Each bar links to that jurisdiction’s page for the role.
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Criminal Investigator III/Johnson
Jason Novotny holds the role of Criminal Investigator III at Johnson. In 2022, their total compensation was $845.