Statistics Canada: Police and Officers

statistics canada: The latest data, collected by Statistics Canada in 2018, shows the average Canadian police officer makes 99,298, according to CTV. Officers with the Ontario Provincial Police earned the most, at 102,821, followed by municipal police officers serving communities of 100,000 or more, at 101,112. Decades of data collected by Statistics Canada shows how much police forces spend, where that money goes and how much officers are paid. Average salary among police forces 2017/2018 Police officers who earned the least, on average, were from Quebec, making 87,245. Kelly Sundberg, a criminologist with Mount Royal University, said general duty police officers have a tough job and they should be compensated for danger pay. That's still significantly higher than the median Canadian household income of 61,400 for families and unattached individual in the same year. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.