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What patrol officers make
Median
$76,210
Lower tenth
$47,510
Top tenth
$115,120
The federal wage survey has no separate line for border agents, so these are the figures for police and sheriff's patrol officers as a whole: a median of $76,210 a year and a bottom tenth around $47,510. Border Patrol agents are federal employees paid on a published government pay ladder instead, which lands in roughly the same territory.