Patrol officers with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department appear poised to get another significant raise.
The St. Louis Police Officers Association is holding meetings starting Wednesday night to outline a proposed contract to its members. Although the terms of the deal were not public, sources say it includes a 7% raise in the first year.
A two-year contract ratified in 2023 gave police officers their largest raises in almost 30 years. That was followed in 2025 by a 7% raise.
If ratified, the new deal would be the first between the union and the state-appointed Board of Police Commissioners. The contract would trigger automatic matching raises for St. Louis firefighters. Those salaries, along with the required pension spending, would cost the city more than $13 million.
That could complicate efforts to boost pay for other city employees. A study released in November found that salary ranges for almost all civil service employees were lower than those for peers in similar public and private-sector jobs.
Discussions about a contract among police commissioners appear to have started in a closed session on Dec. 3. An agenda for its most recent meeting, held on Monday, did not include an item specifically related to a contract. But a motion for a closed meeting referenced “preparation, including any discussions or work product, on behalf of a public governmental body or its representatives for negotiations with employee groups.”
