Sheriff Javier Salazar stands with deputies during a Bexar County Commissioners Court meeting in 2022.Bexar County commissioners unanimously approved long-awaited salary adjustments for new and current deputies to raucous applause on Tuesday.
The adjustment brings salaries “up to a level that’s now commensurate with the strict hiring standards that we have,” he added. “In the history of the sheriff’s office … we can’t find a time that anybody was ever able to directly test over into the law enforcement side” without first serving as a detention officer, Salazar said.
These charts show the maximum and minimum salary ranges for uniformed Bexar County Sheriff’s Office employees by rank and proposed adjustments approved by Bexar County commissioners.The new agreement, which provides annual 3% wage increases each year after the initial boost, replaces the remaining 2.5% biennial base pay raises outlined in the current collective bargaining agreementand commissioners last year.
There are about 2,000 deputies in the department, most of whom work in the jail, but the detention side has about 250 vacancies.found that the jail faced dire staffing shortages. For years, the county has relied on overtime hours to adequately staff the jail.