SALARY · POLICE AND SHERIFF'S PATROL OFFICERS · NORTH CAROLINA

Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers salary in North Carolina

If North Carolina is on your shortlist, start here. The median annual pay for police and sheriff's patrol officers was $59,300. That one figure will not decide a move on its own, but it sets the range for everything else, from housing to how much you can save.

MEDIAN ANNUAL SALARY

$59,300

$29 per hour at the median · That is $16,910 (22.2 percent) below the national median of $76,210 for this occupation.

$61,390Mean annual salary

$30Mean hourly wage

$22,370People employed in this job in North Carolina

Salary range

25th: $49,460Median: $59,30075th: $72,700

Measure	Annual
25th percentile	$49,460
Median (50th percentile)	$59,300
75th percentile	$72,700
Mean	$61,390

The middle half of workers earned from $49,460 to $72,700 a year. The gap between the mean and the median tells its own story. When the mean sits above the median, a smaller group at the top is pulling the average up. When the two are close, pay is more even across the field.

What stays in your pocket on the median salary

ESTIMATED TAKE-HOME PAY

$47,970 a year

$3,998 a month

Federal tax $4,936 · FICA $4,536 · State tax $1,857

Caveat: the North Carolina rate is from NCDOR, but the $12,750 deduction comes from the statute text, not an NCDOR deduction page.

Read this before you use the take-home figure. It is a single-filer estimate using the 2026 standard deduction. It leaves out credits, other deductions, local taxes, and retirement or health deductions. Your actual paycheck can differ, and for states without a verified 2026 table in this build, state tax is still to be added once its table is verified.

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