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What foreign service officers make
Median
$91,000
Lower end
$56,000
Upper end
$139,000
Job Bank's national median for foreign service officers is $43.71 an hour, about $91,000 a year at 40 hours a week. The lower and upper ends ($26.83 and $66.67 an hour) are the bottom and top of the range for everyone in the group, not set starting or senior pay. The salary is only part of it: while posted abroad, officers also receive allowances for housing, hardship and moving, which are set separately from base pay.