First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives salary
SOC 33-1012 · BLS OEWS May 2025
What the range looks like
A single median hides most of what a job pays. The bar below is the full national range: the wash spans the 10th to 90th percentile, the solid bar is the middle half, and the tick is the median.
- 10th
- $63,350
- 25th
- $81,860
- Median
- $106,040
- 75th
- $132,620
- 90th
- $165,110
Getting in
- Typical education to enter
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Related work experience
- Less than 5 years
- On-the-job training
- Moderate-term on-the-job training
Entry requirements describe what is typical, not mandatory. Source: BLS Employment Projections, 2024–34.
Where first-line supervisors of police and detectives earn the most
Nominal pay and pay adjusted for local prices rank states differently — a high-wage state with high costs can be worse off in real terms than a middling one. Switch between the two below.
The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.
| # | State | Median | Cost of living | Employed | Concentrationvs. national |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | California | $163,960 | 110.7 | 13,200 | 0.73× |
| 2 | New Jersey | $142,990 | 108.8 | 7,650 | 1.80× |
| 3 | Hawaii | $140,590 | 110.0 | 700 | 1.12× |
| 4 | Alaska | $137,320 | 102.4 | 320 | 0.99× |
| 5 | Washington | $136,280 | 107.0 | 2,750 | 0.78× |
| 6 | Illinois | $135,080 | 100.0 | 4,900 | 0.81× |
| 7 | District of Columbia | $134,760 | 109.9 | 1,230 | 1.77× |
| 8 | Nevada | $132,100 | 100.0 | 1,300 | 0.84× |
| 9 | Delaware | $131,080 | 99.8 | 410 | 0.85× |
| 10 | Colorado | $126,810 | 103.1 | 2,790 | 0.98× |
| 11 | New York | $124,080 | 107.9 | 12,750 | 1.32× |
| 12 | Oregon | $122,130 | 103.4 | 1,470 | 0.75× |
| 13 | Maryland | $120,700 | 105.0 | 6,700 | 2.44× |
| 14 | Minnesota | $118,750 | 98.6 | 2,870 | 0.98× |
| 15 | Texas | $111,000 | 97.1 | 5,540 | 0.40× |
| 16 | Utah | $110,500 | 98.9 | 1,360 | 0.79× |
| 17 | Connecticut | $109,360 | 103.6 | 2,240 | 1.33× |
| 18 | Nebraska | $106,100 | 90.1 | 730 | 0.72× |
| 19 | Arizona | $104,850 | 100.7 | 2,790 | 0.87× |
| 20 | Massachusetts | $104,320 | 105.8 | 5,540 | 1.53× |
| 21 | Pennsylvania | $102,400 | 97.6 | 5,690 | 0.94× |
| 22 | Virginia | $101,230 | 101.1 | 3,750 | 0.92× |
| 23 | Florida | $100,880 | 103.4 | 9,900 | 1.00× |
| 24 | New Hampshire | $100,060 | 104.2 | 940 | 1.39× |
| 25 | Vermont | $99,280 | 98.0 | 210 | 0.70× |
| 26 | Iowa | $98,840 | 87.8 | 1,370 | 0.88× |
| 27 | Ohio | $98,380 | 92.8 | 5,170 | 0.94× |
| 28 | North Dakota | $98,300 | 89.0 | 440 | 1.03× |
| 29 | Michigan | $98,140 | 96.2 | 3,290 | 0.75× |
| 30 | Rhode Island | $97,690 | 102.3 | 820 | 1.65× |
| 31 | Wisconsin | $97,120 | 94.1 | 2,080 | 0.71× |
| 32 | Idaho | $94,920 | 95.5 | 930 | 1.09× |
| 33 | Missouri | $94,440 | 90.8 | 3,490 | 1.20× |
| 34 | Maine | $92,350 | 97.0 | 440 | 0.70× |
| 35 | New Mexico | $92,200 | 92.2 | 1,320 | 1.53× |
| 36 | Wyoming | $91,400 | 92.7 | 430 | 1.54× |
| 37 | North Carolina | $91,100 | 94.3 | 4,820 | 0.98× |
| 38 | Montana | $89,380 | 94.6 | 450 | 0.89× |
| 39 | South Dakota | $87,810 | 88.6 | 190 | 0.42× |
| 40 | Kansas | $82,950 | 90.1 | 2,330 | 1.63× |
| 41 | Oklahoma | $82,830 | 87.8 | 2,420 | 1.43× |
| 42 | Indiana | $81,540 | 93.3 | 1,700 | 0.53× |
| 43 | Kentucky | $80,390 | 90.2 | 1,600 | 0.81× |
| 44 | Georgia | $80,120 | 96.3 | 7,910 | 1.63× |
| 45 | Alabama | $75,970 | 88.8 | 1,900 | 0.91× |
| 46 | Tennessee | $74,770 | 91.9 | 4,430 | 1.36× |
| 47 | West Virginia | $74,280 | 89.5 | 490 | 0.70× |
| 48 | South Carolina | $73,700 | 93.7 | 1,560 | 0.68× |
| 49 | Louisiana | $70,470 | 88.2 | 3,120 | 1.62× |
| 50 | Arkansas | $62,290 | 86.9 | 2,100 | 1.62× |
| 51 | Mississippi | $59,860 | 87.0 | 2,060 | 1.79× |
Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. States where first-line supervisors of police and detectives wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.
Best paying metro areas for first-line supervisors of police and detectives
The 40 highest-paying metros with a published estimate. BLS suppresses roughly half of all occupation-by-metro cells, so a metro absent here has no local figure rather than a low one.
The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.
| # | Metro area | Median | Cost of living | Employed | Concentrationvs. national |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA | $175,840 | 115.6 | 1,690 | 0.71× |
| 2 | Vallejo, CA | $175,070 | 108.5 | 150 | 1.01× |
| 3 | Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA | $172,590 | 109.9 | 70 | 0.68× |
| 4 | Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA | $167,600 | 113.6 | 4,840 | 0.78× |
| 5 | Napa, CA | $164,150 | 112.6 | 50 | 0.61× |
| 6 | Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA | $163,810 | 106.7 | 1,020 | 0.95× |
| 7 | San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA | $163,700 | 110.4 | 370 | 0.33× |
| 8 | Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA | $161,440 | 108.8 | 110 | 0.58× |
| 9 | Anchorage, AK | $161,100 | 105.4 | 110 | 0.63× |
| 10 | Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA | $159,810 | 106.4 | 1,300 | 0.76× |
| 11 | Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA | $158,510 | 111.1 | 1,330 | 0.64× |
| 12 | Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA | $157,650 | 107.8 | 80 | 0.41× |
| 13 | Salinas, CA | $153,930 | 109.0 | 150 | 0.83× |
| 14 | Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA | $149,460 | 110.5 | 270 | 0.84× |
| 15 | El Centro, CA | $149,290 | 95.2 | 50 | 0.79× |
| 16 | San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA | $148,310 | 111.9 | 960 | 0.63× |
| 17 | Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA | $140,730 | 103.7 | 140 | 1.11× |
| 18 | Urban Honolulu, HI | $140,590 | 111.0 | 490 | 1.11× |
| 19 | San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA | $140,400 | 108.6 | 110 | 0.91× |
| 20 | Fairbanks-College, AK | $137,880 | 103.2 | 50 | 1.33× |
| 21 | Lexington Park, MD | $137,640 | 100.8 | 160 | 2.21× |
| 22 | Modesto, CA | $136,920 | 104.1 | 130 | 0.69× |
| 23 | Kennewick-Richland, WA | $136,050 | 100.1 | 90 | 0.72× |
| 24 | New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ | $135,270 | 112.6 | 13,970 | 1.48× |
| 25 | Redding, CA | $135,110 | 100.7 | 70 | 0.99× |
| 26 | Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN | $135,080 | 103.6 | 3,800 | 0.85× |
| 27 | Bloomington, IL | $134,080 | 93.5 | 60 | 0.69× |
| 28 | Reno, NV | $132,790 | 101.0 | 280 | 1.01× |
| 29 | Bellingham, WA | $132,730 | 103.3 | 90 | 1.03× |
| 30 | Trenton-Princeton, NJ | $132,610 | 103.2 | 330 | 1.39× |
| 31 | Boulder, CO | $132,360 | 105.2 | 80 | 0.41× |
| 32 | Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV | $132,100 | 100.2 | 780 | 0.69× |
| 33 | Salem, OR | $131,940 | 103.6 | 160 | 0.86× |
| 34 | Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA | $131,160 | 105.6 | 100 | 1.12× |
| 35 | Fort Collins-Loveland, CO | $131,050 | 101.1 | 100 | 0.58× |
| 36 | Vineland, NJ | $130,140 | 96.0 | 90 | 1.45× |
| 37 | Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ | $130,040 | 98.9 | 320 | 1.94× |
| 38 | Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX | $129,690 | 98.1 | 470 | 0.37× |
| 39 | Yakima, WA | $128,770 | 95.5 | 110 | 1.12× |
| 40 | Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA | $128,500 | 105.4 | 680 | 0.56× |
Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. Metro areas where first-line supervisors of police and detectives wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.
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