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What Coast Guard officers make
Typical
$86,000
Junior officer
$51,000
Chief officer or commanding officer
$150,000
Job Bank's national median for this group is $41.36 an hour, about $86,000 a year at full-time hours. The page is titled Coast Guard Vessel Chief Officer and pools Coast Guard officers with commercial deck officers, so a new graduate sits well below the median and a commanding officer well above.