City of Springfield, MA / Cp16 / Police Sergeant
Job-title file
Police Sergeant
Enforce laws and maintain public safety — patrol, respond to incidents, investigate crimes, and make arrests.
19 employees hold this title in Cp16. Median total compensation for the role is $76,306, below the department median of $94,068.
- Employees
- 19
- Total payroll
- $1.6M
- Role median
- $76,306
- Agency median
- $94,068
- Comparison
- Below
What the records show
Role pay distribution
Pay distribution for this role
How total compensation varies among the 19 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
Police Sergeant pay vs. the Springfield, MA area
Across all employers in the Springfield, MA area, the median wage for First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives is $99,210. Cp16 pays a median base salary of $94,068 for this role, 5% below that figure — about the 40th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where Cp16 sits in the local pay range
The bar is the range of annual wages for First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives across every employer in the Springfield, MA area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Cp16’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives — about 154,610 people — is $106,040. Cp16’s median base salary is 11% below that national figure, about the 38th 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 Springfield, MA range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 15 of 19 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 Cp16 is $76,306, 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 departments
This role across City of Springfield, MA
Police Sergeant is held in 17 City of Springfield, MA departments. In Cp16, the median of $76,306 ranks #16 of 17.
Highest-paying departments for this role
Median total compensation for the Police Sergeant role in other City of Springfield, MAdepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
Police Sergeant beyond City of Springfield, MA
This role is reported in 21 jurisdictions. In City of Springfield, MA, the median of $121,292 ranks #11 of 21. See Police Sergeant across all of City of Springfield, MA →
Highest-paying jurisdictions for this role
Median total compensation for comparable Police Sergeantroles 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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