Compared with the local labor market
Trooper pay vs. New Jersey
Across all employers in New Jersey, the median wage for Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers — about 21,780 people — is $92,610. Law and Public Safety pays a median base salary of $83,188 for this role, 10% below that figure — about the 41st percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where Law and Public Safety sits in the local pay range
$57,740
$67,070
$92,610
$117,800
$134,260
Law and Public Safety median · $83,188
The bar is the range of annual wages for Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers across every employer in New Jersey, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Law and Public Safety’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. Law and Public Safety’s median base salary is 9% above that national figure, about the 58th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
$47,510
$59,290
$76,210
$97,600
$115,120
Law and Public Safety median · $83,188
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 Jersey range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 1,171 of 1,185 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 Law and Public Safety is $102,789, 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
Trooper beyond New Jersey
This role is reported in 7 jurisdictions. In New Jersey, the median of $102,789 ranks #1 of 7. See Trooper across all of New Jersey →
Highest-paying jurisdictions for this role
Median total compensation for comparable Trooperroles 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.