Indiana sheriffs can make over $178 per hour through a combination of tax collection fees and salary.
The costs to have that sheriff, however, must include office, HVAC, car, garage, mechanic, etc.
This is typical. Where they get a cut on jail meals, their income can climb above half a mil per year without much effort.
It's sometimes good to be the sheriff.
Does that sheriff: Post 74 "For you to have an hour of the time of a sheriff, at your residence, while you report a crime"?
Then obviously that isn't the type of sheriff you were talking about costing $500 an hour.