How much do first-line supervisors of police and detectives make in Pennsylvania?

The median wage for first-line supervisors of police and detectives in Pennsylvania is $102,400 a year, or $49.23 an hour.

Half earn more than that and half earn less. The figure comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics occupational wage survey for May 2025.

BLS’s mean (average) wage for first-line supervisors of police and detectives in Pennsylvania is $106,920 a year. The median is $102,400.

The mean sits higher when a smaller group of high earners pulls the average up. For a typical paycheck, the median is the better middle.

The median hourly wage is $49.23. At a full-time year that lines up with about $102,400 a year.

BLS May 2025; hourly and annual figures come from the same survey.

BLS does not publish starting pay. The closest figure it does publish is the low end of the range: in Pennsylvania, the lowest-paid 10% of first-line supervisors of police and detectives earn under $72,840 a year and a quarter earn under $89,400 ($35.02 and $42.98 an hour).

New hires often start somewhere in that band, but the May 2025 survey does not record experience, so read it as a floor to compare an offer against rather than a typical first salary.

The overall salary range for first-line supervisors of police and detectives in Pennsylvania spans from $72,840 for the bottom 10% to $137,980 for top earners.

The middle 50% earn between $89,400 and $124,820 a year, with the overall median at $102,400.

On the median wage of $102,400, a single filer taking the 2026 standard deduction keeps an estimated $77,725 a year, or roughly $6,477 a month.

That is after federal, state and FICA tax, an effective rate of 24.1%.

Pennsylvania takes $3,144 of it in state income tax.

On the median annual salary of $102,400, estimated take-home pay is roughly $6,477 a month after federal, state, and FICA taxes.

For workers paid on a standard biweekly schedule (26 pay periods per year), each paycheck is approximately $2,989 net.

No. The median in Pennsylvania is 3.4% below the national median of $106,040.

Nominal pay is only half the comparison: prices in Pennsylvania sit at 97.6 against a national 100, so the gap in what the money buys is different from the gap in the salary.

It is 1.31 times the median household income of $77,971. A household often has more than one earner, so a single salary at this level goes further than the ratio alone suggests.

Prices in Pennsylvania run at 97.6 against a national average of 100, with rents at 85.1, so $102,400 here buys about what $104,948 buys at national average prices.

The top tenth earn $137,980 a year or more. The 10th-percentile wage is $72,840.

Experience, specialty, employer and the part of Pennsylvania someone works in all move a wage inside that range; the survey reports the spread, not the reason for it.

The survey counted 5,690 of these jobs in Pennsylvania for May 2025.

That makes the occupation 6% less concentrated here than in the country as a whole. It counts wage and salary jobs, so the self-employed are outside it.