SD7 - Law Enforcement Compensation
Executive Summary: Pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution No. 174 of the 1987 General Assembly, the Virginia State Crime Commission was requested to study the salaries of law enforcement officers and other matters. More specifically, the resolution requests the Crime Commission "to examine the salaries and other compensation paid to law enforcement officers and compare their salaries to those paid to law enforcement officers in other states." Although the study resolution calls for the examination of "the salaries and other compensation paid to law enforcement officers..." and "any standards that may exist for sheriffs' car markings and uniforms and the desirability of uniformity...," this study was limited to the "salaries and other compensation" issue as a separate subcommittee was appointed to study the "car markings and uniforms" issue. The data analysis focused on a comparison of the relative compensation between Virginia's law enforcement officers and similar classes of law enforcement in certain other states and was limited to the examination of the salaries and other compensation paid to the following classes of state-funded sworn law enforcement personnel: Sheriffs and Deputies Virginia State Police Alcoholic Beverage Control Agents Game Wardens Capitol Police Corrections Officers Because Virginia is unique in its funding of sheriffs' offices, the states surveyed did not have statewide salary data available. Thus a salary comparison for sheriffs and deputies using local police departments within Virginia was initiated. Data from a follow-up survey of individual sheriffs' offices in North Carolina, Maryland, and West Virginia is presented in Appendix F. |
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