Salary, Benefits and Retirement
SALARY:
- Academy pay is $29.95 an hour, until sworn in as a police officer
- Police officer, starting step 1 salary $72,571
- Police officer, top step salary $97,198
- 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 $46.50 an hour
- City pays 85% of Kaiser medical plan / 95% 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
- Annual uniform allowance of $675.00
- Bi-weekly bilingual pay
- CALPERS reciprocity
RETIREMENT:
- Fact Sheet:
- Reciprocity Fact Sheet:
- Employee contributes 19.39% base salary towards retirement (as of 06/24/12) and is subject to change.
Salary, benefits and retirement for the police officer position are subject to change based upon ongoing contract negotiations between the City of San Jose and the Police Officers Association.