The actual form: https://www.opm.gov/forms/pdf_fill/sf86.pdf
Holy shit, who the hell goes though all this shit? Just get another job lmfao. Private sector probably pays more than this. (Also you wouldn’t have to worry about government shutdowns)
The actual form: https://www.opm.gov/forms/pdf_fill/sf86.pdf
Holy shit, who the hell goes though all this shit? Just get another job lmfao. Private sector probably pays more than this. (Also you wouldn’t have to worry about government shutdowns)
OP is a moron: jobs that require clearances and speaking fluent Chinese pay six figures. Go ahead and don’t apply for those so people who are more willing to swim in the infinite dollars from the US defense budget can earn it instead of you.
Yup… old buddy of mine went through this and lives a comfortable life with no college degree ever since. Very worth it if you can tolerate the ethical dilemma.
I have a friend who used to work for a big time tech company with lots of defense department contacts, one of the sorts of companies where if he talked about his company helping the government read peoples emails and track you online and such, you couldn’t really be sure if he was joking or not.
He no longer works for that company, and I’m pretty sure he wasn’t joking by the way.
I’ve been fortunate to know a lot of really smart people in my life, and I like to think I’m not an idiot myself, but this guy is hands down the smartest person I’ve ever met and it’s not even close, he is scary smart.
And he made insanely good money while he worked for them, and the kind of shit they did on the company (and by extension, the taxpayers’ dime,) was insane, they were regularly flying out to Vegas and putting it all on the company credit card.
So yeah for a talented person, there is really damn good money to be made if you can get security clearance.
if you’re a contractor, yeah. actual government employees get paid peanuts compared to industry.
And you get to sleep soundly with the fact that if you did your job right more people died today than yesterday. Progress!
I got curious and started searching around, then came across this:
Hmm… (notice the text in the red banner)
Idk maybe in 4 years, kinda uncomfortable with this… joke of an admin doing a background check.
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per month or per year?
For a real answer here’s roughly what DOD contracting makes.
With a degree you can probably start around $125k-$160k a year. Without a degree or experience I’ve seen people start as low as $78k a year, and as high as $115k a year. It all really depends on how much funding the contract you work for has.
5 years in experience, training, certs, whatever else there are people making anywhere from $180k-$250k.
10+ years in, $300k+. At this point you’re likely specialized in something through experience alone and can barter your salary to whatever since you might be the only person available for any given position. The pool of people who work in intelligence is small, I saw an RF engineer haggle their way up to $550k a year for a technical position.