Police
Data received January 2022
Full-time employees
58
Median pay
$65,200
Average pay
$65,883
Police
Employees by pay range
Note: To learn how the Post-Dispatch calculates figures such as the number of full-time employees or median pay, as well as other important explanations and caveats, please see the About page.
Employees
Click on one of the headers below to sort a column. Data shown reflects actual gross pay for 2021, except where noted otherwise.
| Position | Gross pay | Date hired ↑ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wangrow, David | Police Officer | $83,058 | July 1, 1980 |
| Godefroid, Mark L | Police Officer | $79,924 | July 1, 1982 |
| Bushery, Kevin G | Police Lieutenant | $93,124 | May 3, 1983 |
| Hitchcock, Michael D | Police Officer | $80,909 | April 4, 1986 |
| Morrison, Steven K | Police Officer | $79,760 | May 25, 1987 |
| Schoemehl Jr, Henry F | Police Officer | $81,641 | June 1, 1987 |
| Lorne, Kevin J | Police Lieutenant | $32,539 | Feb. 29, 1988 |
| Leavy, Denise | Dispatch Supervisor | $30,790 | Aug. 22, 1988 |
| Saitta, Curt A | Police Lieutenant | $87,452 | Oct. 10, 1988 |
| Heldmann, James D | Police Sergeant | $85,218 | Aug. 1, 1990 |
| Reynolds, Michael R | Police Officer | $75,275 | Nov. 1, 1990 |
| Dolan, Christine M | Dispatcher | $56,838 | Sept. 8, 1992 |
| Dahm, Michael J | Police Officer | $75,249 | April 17, 1995 |
| Wetzel, Robert C | Police Lieutenant | $54,227 | Jan. 2, 1996 |
| Boswell, George E | Police Officer | $75,876 | Jan. 22, 1996 |
| Rogers, Robert J | Police Sergeant | $51,981 | Nov. 4, 1996 |
| Venneman, Joseph J | Police Sergeant | $82,243 | Nov. 4, 1996 |
| Appleby, Michael J | Police Officer | $80,024 | Feb. 17, 1997 |
| Bergfeld, John J | Police Captain | $99,710 | May 1, 1997 |
| Caraway, Thomas A | Police Sergeant | $82,982 | Aug. 30, 1997 |
| Fisher, David | Police Sergeant | $86,952 | Sept. 16, 2002 |
| Carr, Ryan | Police Officer | $70,954 | May 30, 2003 |
| Hawk, Daniel P | Police Sergeant - Detective | $80,102 | July 25, 2005 |
| Southward, Jeffrey M | Police Officer | $79,421 | Oct. 3, 2005 |
| Abbacchi, Gina M | Dispatcher | $32,907 | Jan. 2, 2006 |
| Bergin III, Leo P | Police Officer | $71,671 | Sept. 7, 2006 |
| Sweet, Mikael | Police Officer | $105,238 | May 12, 2008 |
| Stephens, Scott R | Detective | $67,816 | May 19, 2008 |
| Arter III, Vincent L | Police Officer | $65,975 | July 19, 2010 |
| Ferrell, Randy | Police Officer | $65,831 | Aug. 23, 2010 |
| Reim, Matthew | Police Officer | $66,163 | Jan. 9, 2012 |
| Baldwin, Theresa | Dispatcher | $61,187 | Nov. 12, 2012 |
| Ferrell, Shara J | Dispatcher | $60,495 | July 1, 2013 |
| George, Jeffory | Police Officer | $57,715 | July 24, 2013 |
| Rader, Raymond H | Police Officer | $63,478 | Aug. 20, 2014 |
| Coulibaly, Aliou | Police Officer | $62,827 | Dec. 8, 2014 |
| Ferrell, Charles | Police Officer | $62,483 | Dec. 29, 2014 |
| Berry, Robert | Police Officer | $62,253 | July 8, 2015 |
| Burgoyne, Michael J | Police Officer | $72,276 | Oct. 19, 2015 |
| Minton, April D | Adm Assistant II | $49,803 | Feb. 8, 2016 |
| Becker, Diana L | Dispatcher | $60,911 | Sept. 14, 2016 |
| Treaster, David | Police Officer | $23,151 | Nov. 1, 2016 |
| Schaper, Shannon M | Police Officer | $63,591 | Sept. 24, 2018 |
| Reckert, Mark | Police Officer | $61,901 | Feb. 11, 2019 |
| Koyn, Elijah | Dispatcher | $52,391 | April 25, 2019 |
| Shaw, Zachary R | Police Officer | $64,570 | July 22, 2019 |
| Schaeffler, Douglas W | Police Chief | $125,114 | Dec. 2, 2019 |
| Flushing, Johanna | Police Officer | $68,247 | Jan. 6, 2020 |
| Slater, Christopher | Police Officer | $72,170 | Feb. 4, 2020 |
| Niederer, Damien W | Police Officer | $61,257 | June 22, 2020 |
Note: To learn how the Post-Dispatch calculates figures such as the number of full-time employees or median pay, as well as other important explanations and caveats, please see the About page.