FBI Profiling

Financial Picture

Annual Salary

Other Requirements

• According to data published by the FBI, newly assigned special agents receive a base salary of $43,441, plus locality pay ranging from 12.5% to 28.7% of base, as well as availability pay, which equates to a 25% increase in adjusted salary due to the requirement that agents average 50-hour work weeks.

Housing

• FBI Academy- rigorous training that involves classroom courses that include psychology, interviewing, and legal issues.
• Firearms training
• Challenging fitness program

• 2-3 story house

Transportation

The agent with have his/her own vehicle along with either driving or riding in a squad car while on duty. At times agents can be called into cases in other states, if so, agents will be transported in a private government airplane.

Employment Outlook

Healthcare

• In fiscal year 2010, the FBI received over 50,000 applications for approximately 900 Special Agent vacancies.
• Applicants are rated on their individual competitiveness and the professional needs of the FBI.
• For every applicant who is accepted, dozens more are left disappointed.

• Federal employees, retirees and their survivors enjoy the widest selection of health plans in the country. You can choose from among Consumer-Driven and High Deductible plans that offer catastrophic risk protection with higher deductibles, health savings/reimbursable accounts and lower premiums, or Fee-for-Service (FFS) plans, and their Preferred Provider Organizations (PPO), or Health Maintenance Organizations (HMO) if you live (or sometimes if you work) within the area serviced by the plan.

Helpful Work Experience

Work Cited

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Helpful High School courses

• "WiseGEEK: Clear Answers for Common Questions." Web.27 Mar.2015
• "FBI." Web.27 Mar.2015
• "Mary Ellen O'Toole, Ph.D." Web.27 Mar.2015

• Psychology
• Anatomy and Physiology
• Biology/Biology 2

• The FBI method of profiling is a system created by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) used to detect and classify the major personality and behavioral characteristics of an individual based upon analysis of the crime or crimes the person committed.

Special Agent Requirements

• Be a U.S. citizen

• Most people mistakenly think the FBI actually has profiler positions, but this is inaccurate. The position with the FBI commonly referred to as a "profiler" is actually that of a Special Agent assigned to the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime at Quantico, Virginia.

• Be between 23 and 36 1/2 years of age to achieve 20 years of service prior to mandatory retirement at age 57

• Possess a bachelor's degree from a college or university accredited by one of the regional or national institutional associations recognized by the United States Secretary of Education.

• Have at least three years of full-time work experience

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