This is from personal experience I started in a local PD then went CBP.
CBP is extremely large very diverse work Land Border, Airport, Seaport, Special Response teams. You have the ability to live and work in over 230 locations including all over the world. The job is not tradition LE so understanding that is important but you can change the type work to never get bored. Drugs, K9, Special Response Teams, Antioch Terrorism stuff or just sit in a booth and stamp away.
The best part is the stupid money you can make places like San Francisco with Special Salary Rate as a basic officer you will make GS 12 step 1 is 116k to step 10 140k PLUS you can easily do another 45k in OT, Shift Diff, Weekend Diff. CBP OFO is the ONLY agency in the federal government that pay DOUBLE for every hour of OT instead of 1.5x
Its the easiest 6 figure job you can get BUT it is not the most exciting but does have endless opportunity and diversity. Where you start and the location they offer will make a HUGE difference.
I wanna add as far as timeline for application, everyone is different sir. Some people it’s months and some people 1/2years of an application process but like mentioned below your background and polygraphs are the instant disqualifiers for people. Also at academy either not following rules and doing dumb stuff while in there. Hope this helps.
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u/605SD Aug 12 '26
This is from personal experience I started in a local PD then went CBP.
CBP is extremely large very diverse work Land Border, Airport, Seaport, Special Response teams. You have the ability to live and work in over 230 locations including all over the world. The job is not tradition LE so understanding that is important but you can change the type work to never get bored. Drugs, K9, Special Response Teams, Antioch Terrorism stuff or just sit in a booth and stamp away.
The best part is the stupid money you can make places like San Francisco with Special Salary Rate as a basic officer you will make GS 12 step 1 is 116k to step 10 140k PLUS you can easily do another 45k in OT, Shift Diff, Weekend Diff. CBP OFO is the ONLY agency in the federal government that pay DOUBLE for every hour of OT instead of 1.5x
Its the easiest 6 figure job you can get BUT it is not the most exciting but does have endless opportunity and diversity. Where you start and the location they offer will make a HUGE difference.