Becoming a Secret Service Agent in 2020?

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Many people dream of supporting the mission of the United States Secret Service.

The Secret Service personnel ensure the safety of the US president, vice-president, immediate families, former presidents, presidential candidates, and visiting foreign heads of state.

Many people aren't aware of the US Secret Service's second mission.

They safeguard the payment and financial system, which was their original mission. To this day, the Secret Service still investigate counterfeiting of the US currency, bank fraud, mail fraud, cybercrime, and conspiracies.

This was the Secret Service's first mission. The agency was created on July 5th, 1865, in DC to suppress counterfeit currency. This was months after the American Civil War. In the wake of the American Civil War, 1/3 of all US currency was fake.

There are generally three kinds of career opportunities for the Secret Service: Special Agents, Uniformed Division Officers, Administrative, Professional, and Technical Workers

As of 2010, the service had 6,500 employees. There were 3,200 special agents, 1,300 Uniformed Division Officers, and 2,000 technical and administrative employees.

In this post, we will cover Secret Service Special Agents. Special agents have a number of roles and responsibilities:

Provide protection to world leaders and their families.
Develop and implement innovative strategies to prevent threats to world leaders
Conduct criminal investigations.
Planning and implementing security designs for events.
It is extremely challenging to become a Special Agent.

In 2011, the Secret Service accepted less than 1% of its 15,600 special agent applications.

What are the qualifications for becoming a Secret Service Agent?

The following conditions need to be met:

Be a United States Citizen
Be at least 21 years old (at application) and younger than 37 (at application).
Have uncorrected vision no worse than 20/100.
Possess a Driver's License
Pass a written examination
Pass an Application Physical Abilities Test
Quality for a Top Secret Clearance. This includes
A complete background investigation
In-depth interviews
Drug screening
Medical examination
Polygraph
Must be registered with the Selective Service System
No visible body markings, including tattoos and body art

Secret Service Agents are hired at the GS7-GS9 level, generally at Step 1.

Like other federal government employees, they have a base salary that is boosted depending on where they are stationed.

For example in 2020, a GS7- received a base pay of $37,301. If the Special agent was stationed in DC they would receive an $11,339 boost to their pay.

Every year, Special agents have the opportunity to be promoted to a new GS scale or go up a step.

Every year, the president can approve a pay raise for all federal government employees. In 2020, a 2.8% raise was approved, raising the entire scale.

Every year, special agents can be promoted by step, GS scale, and their current position can get a pay boost.

They also have the opportunity to work overtime. This can boost the base salary of agents by 25%.

Special Agents are also entitled to other benefits including:

13 - 26 days of vacation per year depending on years of service
13 days of sick leave per year
Low-cost health care
Low-cost life insurance
Retirement Benefits
Paid Holiday

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