Salary and Benefits
SALARY:
- Academy pay is $33.28 an hour, until sworn in as a police officer
- Police officer, starting step 1 salary $74,982
- Police officer, ending step 7 salary $116,206
- Lateral police officer salary determined by experience, training and education
BENEFITS:
- 4 day work week, 10 hours a day
- 5% additional premium pay for certain specialized assignments
- Overtime pay assignments
- Off-duty secondary employment starting pay of $44.00 an hour
- City pays 90% of Kaiser medical plan / 100% dental plan
- Domestic partnership benefits
- Paid vacation of 80 hours to start, 180 hours maximum
- Paid accrued sick leave of 96 hours annually
- Up to 100% sick leave cash-out at retirement
- 5.62% holiday pay compensation
- Annual uniform allowance of $675.00
- Up to 90% of salary for retirement (30 years of service) with 3% annual cost of living increase
- PERS retirement reciprocity
- Up to four (4) years of retirement buy-in for military experience
- Bi-weekly bilingual pay
