Don't forget needing the ability to get pretty fluent in a crash course of spanish during training. If not, no job.
Yeh, but LEO work is way more fun then teaching bad kids. I would gladly take 39k vs 45k of LEO work. I've done both in my life. Had I known when I was 21 years old law enforcement was this fun, I would have started the career 10 years earlier. I would rather hunt for MS13 in swamp for 39k, then grade homework. Somebody has to do it.
You can make a decent amount if you stay with the agency for years. My friend is close to 100k a year after about 7 years. Tons of overtime. The problem is that you can't lateral to another Law Enforcement Agency.
Depends what part of the country
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I know two people who went with CBP, one of them is still with the agency. One was a social worker, the other one a nurse. The RN went back into nursing after a couple of years, the social worker now has 18 years or so with the agency and is a field supervisor.
It is federal work, you may have to move around a bit to take advantage of opportunities for progress within the agency. I dont think comparing it to police work with a local county department makes a lot of sense. With a local PD, you can bank on being in one place for 20 years. With the feds, you may spend a couple of years in Grand Forks and the next 3 in Miami to be followed by a stint at Legoland on the Potomac.
Pretty sure most states do not recognize federal training for a substitute for state qualifications. Mainly because they aren't a "full service" job.
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