Salary and Benefits
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
- 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
Benefits 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.