NYC Environmental Police Officer salary

Half a year into the job the base rate moves from $52,333 to $60,038 — a rise of $7,705, or just under fifteen per cent, on a single scheduled date. No other title tracked here has a step of that size that early, and it changes how the starting figure should be read.

Compared on entry alone, this title starts below Correction Officer at $56,838 and below Police Officer at $55,942. Compared on the rate a candidate is actually earning within the first year, it is above both. A candidate ranking exams by the first number on the notice will rank this one wrongly.

What the notice does not say is what happens between 26 weeks and six and a half years. It gives the two endpoints and the word "increments", and the schedule between them is set by contract rather than published here. Any site quoting you a year-by-year table for this title is quoting something the notice does not contain.

There are three assignment levels in this class of positions. Appointments are made to Level I, and after appointment employees may be assigned to a higher level at the discretion of the agency. The $80,391 ceiling quoted in the notice is explicitly the Level I ceiling — it is where increments take you without any change of level at all.

That phrasing matters for expectations in both directions. It means the published ceiling is reachable by staying put and serving time, which is not true of every promotional structure. It also means a higher level is not something a candidate can plan on, because the notice attaches it to the agency's discretion rather than to a period of service or an examination.

The drug-testing section adds one concrete detail about levels that is easy to miss: a drug test may be required as a prerequisite for assignment to a higher level. Whatever else moving up involves, it involves that.

The notice names four things beyond salary: an annual uniform allowance, longevity pay, City contributions to the Welfare Fund, and City-paid health insurance. It gives an amount for none of them, and inventing one would be guessing at a bargained term.

Two features of the work suggest the gap between base and total is real rather than nominal. Officers work outdoors across a very large area in all weather, and the notice's own physical-conditions list describes driving or sitting in a patrol car for a tour while remaining alert — which is a description of long distances. Where a title covers ground like that, vehicle and equipment provision is part of the package in a way it is not on a desk post.

The honest summary is that $52,333 is a floor for half a year, $60,038 is the rate that describes the job for most of the first six years, and everything else is set by agreements the notice points at rather than reproduces.

Nothing about the exam score changes any of these figures. Two candidates appointed from the same list start at the same rate whatever the gap between their marks. What the score decides is position on an eligible list that is usually active for four years, and therefore when — or whether — you are reached.

On this title that matters more than on most, because the exam runs twice a year rather than twelve times. A Police Officer candidate who is not reached from one list has another exam number available the following month. Here the next filing period is months away, and the schedule through 30 June 2027 shows two of them: 2 December 2026 and 7 April 2027.

So the rank-versus-pay trade is unusually stark. The exam cannot make your first year pay more. It can make the difference between your first year happening in 2027 and happening in 2030.