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Deputy Sheriff

Enforce laws and maintain public safety — patrol, respond to incidents, investigate crimes, and make arrests.

7,126 employees hold this title in Sheriff. Median total compensation for the role is $251,688, above the department median of $212,576.

Employees: 7,126
Total payroll: $1.8B
Role median: $251,688
Agency median: $212,576
Comparison: Above

What the records show

Role pay distribution

Pay distribution for this role

$1$400,341+

Hover a bar for its range; click to filter the list below.

How total compensation varies among the 7,126 people in this role. Even for one job title, pay differs with seniority, step, overtime, and tenure. Each bar is a pay range; the far-right bar collects the highest earners.

Compared with the local labor market

Deputy Sheriff pay vs. the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area

Across all employers in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area, the median wage for Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers — about 24,720 people — is $121,980. Sheriff pays a median base salary of $126,273 for this role, 4% above that figure — about the 77th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Where Sheriff sits in the local pay range

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$78,870

$98,180

$121,980

$126,080

$127,880

Sheriff median · $126,273

The bar is the range of annual wages for Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers across every employer in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Sheriff’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.

And across the country

Nationwide, the median wage for Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers — about 670,520 people — is $76,210. Sheriff’s median base salary is 66% above that national figure, above the 90th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$47,510

$59,290

$76,210

$97,600

$115,120

Sheriff median · $126,273

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 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA range relative to the national one.

Computed over the 6,844 of 7,126 people in this role paid at least $25,000in 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 Sheriff is $251,688, 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

Deputy Sheriff beyond Los Angeles County

This role is reported in 10 jurisdictions. In Los Angeles County, the median of $251,688 ranks #1 of 10. See Deputy Sheriff across all of Los Angeles County →

Highest-paying jurisdictions for this role

City and County of San Francisco

$220,649 · 882

Vermont

$84,490 · 20

Ramsey County, Minnesota

$82,213 · 525

Johnson County, Kansas

$74,451 · 486

City of Baltimore

$66,839 · 408

Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

$66,199 · 11

City of Philadelphia

$22,513 · 249

Rhode Island

$21,436 · 152

Median total compensation for comparable Deputy Sheriffroles 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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