Applications are open for the next class of Troopers with the Nebraska State Patrol.
The next NSP training class is set to begin on July 7, with graduation scheduled for December 19, 2025. The application process is open until March 31 at NebraskaTroopers.com.
Troopers serve in many career paths including patrol, criminal investigator, K9 handler, crash investigator, pilot, tactical flight officer, crisis negotiator, drone operator, hazmat technician, and many more. Troopers can also serve in specialty units including the SWAT Team, Carrier Enforcement, Bomb Squad, Executive Protection, Training Academy, Mobile Field Force, and the Husker Football Detail.
Troopers earn a starting salary of $32.45 per hour ($67,496 annually) upon graduation from the NSP Training Academy. Recruits are paid $28.85 during the academy process. Troopers also receive a retirement plan, health, vision, dental, and life insurance, as well as free college tuition for dependents at the University of Nebraska, state colleges, or community colleges.
Troopers also have opportunities for additional pay, including overtime hours at a pay rate of 1.5 times their base salary rate, shift differential pay of an additional $1.00 per hour if they are regularly assigned to the night shift, and a 2.5 percent pay increase for qualifying as bilingual.
The NSP Training Academy offers an extensive 24-week training program. Recruits go through numerous life-like scenarios and hundreds of hours of instruction to prepare them for a career serving Nebraska.
NSP offers the opportunity to serve in communities across the entire state of Nebraska. Each recruit will know their assigned duty station prior to starting camp, as NSP works to balance candidates’ duty station requests with the need to provide quality law enforcement coverage statewide. Applicants can get more information about the open duty stations and the duty station process at NebraskaTroopers.com/DutyStations.
NSP Spokesman Cody Thomas says 2025 will be the first year in a while where new recruits are open to begin at both the Omaha and Lincoln Duty Stations.