Suffolk County, New York / Police / 5002C - Police Officer
Job-title file
Enforce laws and maintain public safety — patrol, respond to incidents, investigate crimes, and make arrests.
1,802 employees hold this title in Police. Median total compensation for the role is $129,802, above the department median of $116,975.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 1,802 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
Across all employers in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ area, the median wage for Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers — about 54,270 people — is $105,540. Police pays a median base salary of $91,010 for this role, 14% below that figure — about the 42nd percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers across every employer in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Police’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. Police’s median base salary is 19% above that national figure, about the 67th 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 New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 1,509 of 1,802 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 Police is $129,802, 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
5002C - Police Officer is held in 2 Suffolk County, New York departments. In Police, the median of $129,802 ranks #1 of 2.
Median total compensation for the 5002C - Police Officer role in other Suffolk County, New Yorkdepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Record list
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5002C - Police Officer/Police
Source-specific fields
James Fox works as a 5002C - Police Officer for Police within Police Benevolent Association (Pba). Hired in 2024, they have under a year of service. James earned $388 in 2024.
5002C - Police Officer/Police
Source-specific fields
Steven Thompson works as a 5002C - Police Officer for Police within Police Benevolent Association (Pba). Their tenure dates to 1989, about 35 years. Steven earned $63 in 2024.