Police Officer III

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. Police pays a median base salary of $137,677 for this role, 13% above that figure — above the 90th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Computed over the 5,667 of 5,730 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 Police is $187,245, 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.

This role is reported in 31 jurisdictions. In City of Los Angeles, the median of $187,245 ranks #3 of 31. See Police Officer across all of City of Los Angeles →