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Originally Posted by b3181981  I find it kind of crummy that a Sector Enforcement Specialist tops out at 84,913.00 a year and a AIRCRAFT/AIRPLANE/HELICOPTER PILOT (AIR INTERDICTION AGENT) tops out at 70,843.00 . |
At the GS11 Pay rate which is where you'll start, its base pay is $48,148.00. Journeyman pilots top at GS13 now I believe, which is $89,217.00 for a GS13 step 10. With locality pay and Law Enforcement Availability Pay(LEAP) its over 100K a year, after about 10 years. QOL is a heck of a lot better than a RJ Pilot, unless your stationed the Rio Grande Valley somewhere
Leap is 25% of the base pay added to base and locality, sort of advanced overtime, It works out to be about 1.5 to 2 hours per day. Some days you work more sometimes you work less. Most of us that were paid leap tried real hard to make it come out an even 10 hours a week.
CBP Air OPs which is a combination of the legacy Customs Air OPs and legacy US Border Patrol Air OPs fly P-3s (have to be rated ie. Navy P3 Pilot) and they fly mostly Caribbean or South America, H-60s, Astars, Boeing(MD) 400s, Slowtations with tracking radar, 182s, 206s, 210s, what you fly depends on where your stationed. They use to have a few King Airs set up for marine surveillance not sure if they still have those.
Look up pay at
http://www.opm.gov/oca/08tables/indexGS.asp This will give you a good idea of pay.
Each step promotes like this: 1st four steps promote each year, next 3 steps every three years, after that every five years. Confused yet?
Usually you'll promote through the grades first (GS11 to 12 then 12 to 13) each year, then start on the steps after you've reached journeyman level.
Now that I've really confused you
If you have Questions PM me, I retired from the Feds a few months ago, but still have some friends from the old USBP flying for them.
Bill