According to PayScale, a police course graduate working as a police officer can expect to earn between $49,000 and $100,000 per year, with an average salary of approximately $70,000 per year. PayScale notes a positive relationship between experience and earning capacity, with people who have 10 years’ experience earning up to $10,000 more per year with less than five years’ experience. If you progress to working as a sergeant, you can expect to earn between $64,000 and $120,000 per year, depending on your experience.
Completing a police course will also qualify you to work in a range of management and advisory roles in the security sector. As an intelligence analyst, you can expect to earn on average $73,000 per year, and as a security manager you can expect to earn on average approximately $79,000 per year.