Eunice police start at $33K after recent pay raise
Lagging most of the South and the rest of the country, Louisiana pays its patrol officers and sheriff’s deputies below the regional average of $51,482 and the national average of $71,380. Louisiana paid its more than 13,000 patrol officers and sheriff’s deputies an average annual wage of $45,310 in May 2022, according to Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics data from the U.S. Bureau of Lab…