FBI Agent Salary

According to one source the FBI Agent salary starts at approximatelyUSD 48,000p.a. and goes up to USD 87, 000 p.a. for a senior grade special agentwith about 12 years in FBI. These figures are indicative and vary withlocation, education and experience of course. Now what exactly does anFBI agent do? The Federal Bureau of Investigation is the primaryinvestigative arm of the federal government. It is responsible forconducting sensitive national security investigations and investigatesall federal crimes such as organized crime, white-collar crime, publiccorruption, financial crime, fraud against government, bribery,copyright matters, civil rights violations, bank robbery, extortion,kidnapping, air piracy, terrorism, foreign counterintelligence,interstate criminal activity, fugitive and drug trafficking matters,and other violations of federal statutes. The FBI also works with otherfederal, state and local law enforcement agencies in investigatingmatters of joint interest and in training law enforcement officers atthe FBI Academy. As an FBI Agent you would be involved in investigatinginto any or all of the above.

So how do you become an FBI agent salary earner? First, acquire abachelors degree ora masters degree in your specialty area and acquire 2-3 years of workexperience. Many agents acquire law degrees as well because that makestheir jobs easier. Some supervisory work experience is essential justas learning a foreign language fluently is. Some of the importantprerequisites for being an FBI agent currently are a bachelors andmasters degree in engineering, computer science, justice relatedsubjects, military, accounting and finance and knowledge of foreignlanguages such as Arabic, Farsi, Pashtu, Urdu, Chinese, Japanese,Korean, Russian, Spanish and Vietnamese. To be an FBI agent salaryearner you need todevelop a skill that is different from what anyone else can offer.

Other prerequisites include being between 23 and 36 years of age at thetime of appointment. You are required to complete an oral and writtenexam, medical and physical exams, a psychological assessment and abackground investigation. Upon being selected by the FBI, you willreceive training for 17 weeks at the FBI’s academy at the USMarine Corps Base at Quantico, Virginia. The FBI is one of the mostrespected and sophisticated law enforcement agencies in the world andrequires agents who can are equally effective working in teams andindependently.

As an FBI agent, one thing you can be sure is that you will nevercomplain of a routine and boring job. There is nothing routine in anFBI agents job. Every day brings up new challenges, risky assignments,high-profile cases, legal and medical inputs, unexpected travel andmeeting all kinds of people, executing arrest warrants, gatheringevidence and doing the inevitable paperwork. Naturally, an FBI agentdoes not have any fixed hours of working and work on an average about50 hours a week at 10 hours a day with maybe 2 hours of overtime onweekdays. But the excitement and job satisfaction is certainly worthit.

Good luck!